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#Karakol

16
posts · 30d
5
users
1
posts / day
3.2
posts / user
-33% vs last week

#Karakol is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 5 people shared 16 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is down 33% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 4 with 2 posts.

#Karakol posts per day (last 30 days)

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Posts with #Karakol

Ella Maillart
@ellamaillart.bsky.social
20 days ago
"There were Kirghiz of noble birth - all honour where it is due - with straggly pointed beards, piercing eyes and velvet bonnets on their heads ... These are the 'Manaps' or patriarchs, chiefs of their tribes, on whom often hundreds of yurts depend." #Photography #EllaMaillart #Kyrgyzstan #Karakol
Elder Kyrgyz men, known as aksakals, wearing traditional white felt hats (kalpaks) and quilted coats. The different shapes, folds and rims of the kalpak traditionally signified the wearer's age, societal status or specific tribal lineage.
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Ella Maillart
@ellamaillart.bsky.social
17 days ago
Semirechye, Karakol, Ella Maillart, 1932 "Now each of us has a horse, with a pack-horse in addition. We take them to be shod with crampons to help negotiate the glaciers and rocks. It seems I have everything to learn from these beasts." #Photography #EllaMaillart #Kyrgyzstan #Karakol #Horse
Karakol, Ella Maillart, 1932.

A blacksmith wearing a traditional hat bends over to shoe a horse using a wooden suspension frame. 

This setup stabilises and lifts the animal slightly, preventing it from kicking, thrashing or collapsing while its hooves are being worked on.

Viral posts online incorrectly claim this black-and-white image depicts a cruel culinary practice called "pouring soup over live donkey meat".
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Ella Maillart
@ellamaillart.bsky.social
21 days ago
Karakol, Kyrgyzstan, 1932 Ella Maillart on an elevated wooden balcony alongside a public address loudspeaker horn mounted overhead. Behind her is a vast open-air bazaar filled with numerous canvas tents, crowds of people and horse-drawn carriages. #Photography #EllaMaillart #Kyrgyzstan #Karakol
Ella Maillart, Karakol, Kyrgyzstan, 1932

Ella on an elevated wooden balcony alongside an early model of a public address loudspeaker horn mounted overhead.  Behind her was a vast open-air bazaar filled with numerous canvas tents, crowds of people and horse-drawn carriages.
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Ella Maillart
@ellamaillart.bsky.social
23 days ago
"Wherever we were going ... our way led always through the bazaar, the heart of the city. It was a fascinating spectacle to watch ... while the variety of types of human beings would have ravished lovers of the picturesque with delight." #Photography #EllaMaillart #Kyrgyzstan #Karakol 1/2
The market at Karakol (then Przhevalsk) in Soviet Kyrgyzstan, Ella Maillart, 1932

In the lower-left foreground, a young man wearing a brimmed hat operates a portable, hand-cranked mechanical sewing machine setup. Another individual appears to be holding a tailoring tool, such as a large blade or shears.

The background details a dense gathering of local buyers and sellers wearing a mix of traditional Central Asian garments, winter coats, and various headwear including headscarves, peaked caps and bowler hats typical of the early Soviet era.
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Ella Maillart
@ellamaillart.bsky.social
24 days ago
"A wooded inlet of the lake does service at the port of Kara Kol ... There was a courtyard with a shelter for the horses, and in front of the house two large tents. Inside, there was a dormitory containing some fifteen bunks ..." #Photography #EllaMaillart #Kyrgyzstan #Karakol
A traditional Dungan (Chinese Muslim) architectural style home in the village of Mariinskoye, Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan. It was established around 1877–1878 by the Dungan people who migrated to the region fleeing persecution following the Dungan Revolt in Northwest China.

The house was built using Chinese methods without a single nail and features clear traditional Chinese architectural design elements, including heavy wooden columns supporting an overhanging tiled roof with exposed structural rafters, blended into the local Central Asian village setting.

The building clearly features traditional Chinese architectural elements blended with local construction, notable by its distinct wooden columns supporting a heavy overhanging tiled eave system and carved decorative bracket details beneath the roof.
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