qaraqalpaq.com
This website, by David and Sue Richardson, is a good source of information about the people of Karakalpakstan, especially on textiles, national clothing, and yurts. The page appears to have been last updated in 2012.
A tiny shrimp is a lifeline for communities by the Aral Sea
This article, by Beyond Catastrophe’s Saxon Bosworth, provides an overview of brine shrimp or artemia in the West Aral and highlights the importance of this tiny creature for local livelihoods, aquaculture, and perhaps even as a food source.
Fish and Fur
Moynaq is know for what it used to be, a major fishing town. This old, poetic video shows that it also had a fur industry. Kate of the BC team came across the video in a local Telegram group Суратлардаги тарих, “history in pictures”. Translation of the Russian commentary in the video, by Gulzhan Yermekova:…
Mizdakhan Review
Next Stop Nukus (NSN) is a tourism and English language improvement project initiated through the Small Grants Program by the U.S. Embassy Tashkent Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Department of State. The aim of NSN is to increase English language skills of university students and help develop the tourism industry within Karakalpakstan. Students…
Poem: Арал теңиз ултанинан кеп турман
With our logo contest, we were also sent a video from a young Karakalpak poet, Aydos Umirbaev. We loved the poem and wanted to share it and a short interview with the poet. We would love translations of this poem in the other langues of this website – please contact us if you can help!…
Beyond Catastrophe logo competition: Winner Announcement
Contents Introduction 4th place: Shomurodova Zilola Kallibek 3rd place: Yuldashev Islambek Ikram 2nd place: Torejanov Islamjan Berdijan 1st place: Atanazarov Masharifboy Qadam Introduction On November 30th we announced the Seeing Beyond Catastrophe logo contest! We asked across social media for submissions of artwork that represent or imagine the future of the Aral Sea region. We…
Tigers to return to extinct Caspian tiger range
& what it means for global wildlife conservation
Hello! My name is Saxon. Thanks for joining us here on Beyond Catastrophe’s first “story”. I’m a documentary filmmaker currently producing a series about the future of the Aral Sea region, called Mission: Find Aral. Here, I would like to share a remarkable wildlife conservation story that I became aware of in my time living…
Socio-economic features of improvements for nosogeographical situation Republic of Karakalpakistan
This resource is the extended abstract for Dr. Izimbet Turdimambetov’s doctoral dissertation which summarizes his extensive work on the medical and health situation of the Republic of Karakalpakstan. The graph to the left, from his dissertation, shows the distribution of health challenges in Karakalpakstan as of 2014.
Flora and Fauna around Touristic Sights in Khorezm and Karakalpakstan
Much of the content for our Encyclopedia of Life came from this publication produced by the “Sustainable Economic Development in Selected Regions of Uzbekistan” project commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
Caspian tiger hunters: a lieutenant’s 1894 diary
A NOTE FROM THE TEAM: The Caspian tiger was assessed as extinct in 2003. The following text is an 1894 excerpt from Lieutenant Kolushev’s diary. The extract documents a tiger hunting mission in Karakalpakstan. This source was sent to us by a local Karakalpak resident. For more information on the Caspian tiger and this active…
Journal article: The Benefits of Marginality: The Great Famine around the Aral Sea, 1930-1934
Abstract: Based on research in Kazakhstani and Russian archives, this article is a regional study of the 1931–1933 Soviet famine. It compares Soviet policies in the southern and northern “halves” of the Aral Sea region. While the Kazaks in the northern part of the region suffered from the famine, the Karakalpaks in the south did…
