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TARIH
The history of Kazakhstan through clothing: from the nomadic era to independence.
ORDA
The drop’s logical starting point: the nomadic era. “Orda” is the ruler’s seat, the steppe’s mobile capital, where Kazakh statehood was born in the very logic of movement.
ALASH
A generation of the Kazakh intelligentsia at the meeting point of imperial Russia and the receding steppe. Journalism was the era’s infrastructure of self-knowledge; the newspaper “Qazaq” is its principal archival marker.
KazSSR
A contested yet inseparable part of Kazakhstan’s history. Within it we turn to what our forebears actually lived: to sport, and to the cosmos of Baikonur.
TAÑGY TAÑ
The dawn of the independent republic and the wild capitalism of the ’90s: bazaars, shuttle traders, the first tenge. KRI archives the era through the objects of everyday commerce.
