Postcard
Towards the western end of the Tienshan Mountains in
the southeast of Kazakhstan, the Chu-Ili mountain spur forms a canyon around
the Tamgaly Gorge. The Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly features a
remarkable concentration of some 5,000 (!) petroglyphs, associated settlements
and burial grounds. All dating back as far as the Bronze Age.
A stamp to celebrate 200th Anniversary of the Birth of
Mikhail Lermontov, the ‘poet of the Caucasus’. He was a Russian Romantic
writer, poet and painter.
On the right a stamp to celebrate the 10th Anniversary
of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO). CSTO is an intergovernmental military
alliance between six post-Soviet states: Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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