In pictures: Almaty - Kazakhstan's Big Apple

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  6 Dec 05, 21:26

  
  
  The only surviving 75-year-old tree, beside an orchard of newer trees on the edge of town.
  
  
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  6 Dec 05, 21:26

  
  
  A dried apple left on top of one of the newer trees - harvest-time is mid-September.
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  6 Dec 05, 21:27

  
  
  A terrace of trees in the orchard.
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  6 Dec 05, 21:28

  
  
  Horticulturalist Yuri Alexeyev examines the buds on one of the trees. He says the harvest this year was bad but next year's will be good.
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  6 Dec 05, 21:29

  
  
  The orchard terraces spread across the hillside.
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  6 Dec 05, 21:30

  
  
  Apples on their way to the main city market, the Green Bazaar.
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  6 Dec 05, 21:30

  
  
  Apple-sellers inside the market. They cut people slices off the apples to get them to buy some.
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  6 Dec 05, 21:31

  
  
  The Grushevka variety on sale.