Eagle hunting, or falconry, is a centuries-old Kazakh nomadic tradition. Trainers capture young eagles and raise them ...

But after seeing footage of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft crash down on the remote Kazakh Steppe 10 years ago, photographer Andrew McConnell became more enraptured by astronauts’ unceremonious ...

I heard a loud explosion, the oxygen masks fell down and the plane shook,” Rinat Assanov told AFP, recalling the moment the ...

In the coming months this vast steppe will explode into life with green grass and wild tulips. For now, at the end of a long winter, it is a disorienting place. Few people live out here. Villages ...

The largest Soviet-era cinema in Central Asia is to open its doors to the public after being transformed by British architect ...

While they can land in water, their 13 target landing sites are all on land in the sparsely inhabited Kazakhstan steppe (flat grasslands). According to russianspaceweb.com, the descent is slowed ...

Kazakhstan is a land of breathtaking contrasts that present unparalleled natural beauty in the rugged peaks of the Tian Shan mountains and vast, windswept grasslands of the Great Steppe.

The Valley of Balls in Western Kazakhstan, in the region of Mangystau, is one such place. Starting your visit at the village of Shetpe, this mysterious yellow steppe is strewn with hundreds of ...

Kazakhstan’s Altyn Dala conservation initiative earned one of the world’s most coveted environmental accolades, Prince ...

This is a first installment of a series describing the 5th World Nomad Games that took place in Astana, Kazakhstan, earlier ...