Oksana Shatalova Preservation, 2007
BiographyAbandoned towns were an all-too familiar sight in the first years after independence for every country built on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Constructed to serve a single industry, these urban centres soon foundered on the rocks of disintegrating economic relationships, unfamiliarity with the ways of the market economy, and inflation. Rendered superfluous, the population poured out in endless streams to Russia’s great cities, to Germany, Israel and the USA. In the 1990s, more than two million people left Kazakhstan.
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