Uzbek Football
Football (soccer) training of Uzbekistan national team.
Uzbekistan Shots
Some photos from Uzbekistan, former part of Soviet Russia by Borzih Victor.
Darvaz: The Door to Hell
This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it’s burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.
There is also one video down there:
Playing Rambo Games
In “Rambo 3″ movie Sylvester Stallone took participation in quite strange but very rough game, where players should throw a dead body of a goat riding horses. So If you want to become as cool as Rambo 3, or 2, or just Stallone or whatever, you don’t need to go to Afganistan and fight against terrorists. Actually this game is very widespread in many Central Asian countries, including some former republics of the USSR, such as Tajikistan, where it is called buzkashi, Uzbekistan (ulak or kupkari), Kazakhstan (kopkar tartu) and Kirgizia. Some people in Russia call it “kozlodranie” from the words “koziol” (goat) and “drat’ ” (tear up). The rules of this game resemble in some way American football or Rugby with a goat instead of a ball. So if you like to play with dead animals - you are welcome to Kazakhstan and even farther.
Parts of USSR
So in order to clarify a little bit what countries were in the USSR we have some photos.
People of those countries fill themselves now independent but formerly were referred as “Soviet People”.
Most of them still know Russian language almost perfectly.
So the list of the counties:
First goes Russia. It was the biggest part of USSR in terms of territory and population.
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