Almaty 2011: a city of contrasts

Dear friends, we decided to introduce you to my city - Almaty!
And it was so, one Sunday morning, my wife decided to drive around the city and took a camera ... Almost all of the photos taken during the movement of the car window - pictures of my wife.
Soon the wait picture story "Night of Almaty."
In the same post includes photos of Soviet, Soviet and post-modern architecture of the city. Now a bit of history:

Almaty - Kazakhstan's largest city, is popularly referred to as the "Southern Capital" and "financial center of Kazakhstan." The population for the year 2011 of the order of 1, 7 million people, and it is not considered to be illegal!
Almaty among the top ten greenest cities in the world, it will be able to see the photographs of streets; and in 2007 he entered the Almaty "tritsadku" the most expensive cities in the world!
Almaty is located in the foothills of the basin, and we have the opportunity to see the beautiful mountain scenery. The climate is continental in Almaty, ie we eat winter with temperatures down to -20 C, and the heat in the summer to +35 C!
Generally, everything else in the descriptions to the photos!

75-80 photos, please do not interrupt!



1. One morning ... vyezhaem vosresnym home



2. The residential complex "Valley of Roses" view from the road



3. Private construction
Plot expensive here, about 50-70 thousand dollars for a hundred



4. The residential complex is adjacent to the golf club "Zhailau»



5. once the private house



6. The ordinary city streets - sleeping areas, a typical 9-etazhki



7. normal streets



8. Arbat district delusional construction 80



9. Photos from the Arbat, Almaty alley where artists sell paintings



10. One of the streets in raone city center, which is called "Golden Square»



11. Here there are buildings 50s, also near the center



12. The architecture of the USSR still



13. The area of ​​the old building once the Government in the Soviet Union is now owned by Kazakh-British University



14. All the same at the center: the pre-crisis times banks are willing to buy land and build



15 on the road. Alfarabi Avenue, the upper part of the city



16. Prospect Alfarabi



17. Also in 2005, was built many shopping centers. This Mega Center



18. Again Mega



19. The drive towards modern city



20. Modern Architecture 2008-2010



21. Complex Nurly Tau, I call it the "house of the Snow Queen»



22. The modern business center



23. He also



24. going on roundabout



25. The mixture of styles 2000s and 2005's, the building



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27. The construction of the 90



28. in all parts of the city to the main street merchants, like termites, gnawing the first floors of homes and shops retoranami



29. The French House, and a replica of the Eiffel Tower, pr.Furmanova



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31. Almaty famous blue spruce



32. akimat (mayor's office) and a new area



33. A new area



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35. Book desires



36. Monument



37. Angels and rainbow



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39. Moving on to the mountains Medeo



40. Wellness club Luxor



41. The hotel Royal Tulip - favorite star hotel



42. One of the most beautiful architectural masterpieces of the city, in my opinion



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44. go to Medeo, beauty in the city



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46. ​​rink Medeo, top view



47. rink Medeo



48. Another residential complex (fragment)



49. Business Center For Rent



50. Street



51. Bar GQ



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53. building Marriot



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55. go home



56. Twilight



57. Arch Park im.Pervogo RK President



58. the house



59. My home



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61. Profit!



62. And this is my wife, the author of all images in motion

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