picture of Lenin on the roof of a house still dominates a street in the city of Osh, Ferghana valley, Kyrgyzstan

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Eight year after Kyrgyzstan declared its independence from the USSR, a big picture of Lenin on the roof of a house still dominates a street in the city of Osh, Ferghana valley, Kyrgyzstan. The city was once one of the great cities of the Silk Road and of Central Asia, and is the second biggest city in the country situated in the unstable Ferghana valley, which is now becoming a hotbed if Islamic Fundamentalism.

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Size: 5417px × 3590px
Location: Osh, Kyrgyzstan
Photo credit: © jeremy sutton-hibbert / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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