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Bukhara in Uzbekistan, 1970 |
| Bukhara is an old city on the Great Silk Road in Uzbekistan, Central Asia. When the pictures were taken, back in 1970, this was a part of the Soviet Union, neglected and almost forgotten. The city was not much spoiled by the "new" Soviet development, and there were very few tourists (I was one of the four or five foreigners in town that day). | ||
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| This tower (left and far left) was allegedly used for executions; a 16-th century shopping mall, still working (above) at a caravan route intersection. | ||
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| The Samanid dynasty mausoleum (above and right), 1000 years old, is striking in its simplicity. The lovely Chor Minar (far right) breaks every symmetry rule in the book. | ||
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| Interior of a mosque (far left); the citadel from which the emir ruled the city (left and above). | ||
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| A slow day on the local marketplace. | Signs of neglect: an Islamic school converted into a slum, and children playing in dusty back alleys... | |
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See also my Khiva gallery. | ||
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Pictures © 1970, 2002 by J.Andrzej Wrotniak. Feel free to use them for any non-commercial purposes.
For commercial and publication uses, high resolution (5-6 Mpix) scans are available at
Technical info: Russian Start SLR, 58 mm Helios-44 lens, East-German ORWO slide film, scanned to a Kodak Photo CD and postprocessed with |
| Posted 1999/03/15; last updated 2006/03/04 | Copyright © 1999-2006 by J. Andrzej Wrotniak. |
