Archive: April 12th, 2011
April 12th is not only the day that Yuri Gagarin undertook the first Manned flight into space … it’s also the birthday of the great Russian explorer Nikolay Mikhailovich Prezhevalsky. The town of Karakol lies at the eastern end of Lake Issyk Kul. Its name in Kyrgyz means “Black Hand” – and although that [...]
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