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PHOTOS FROM RESEARCH TRIP
2008-2009
TURKEY, RUSSIA, GEORGIA & MORE
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From the window of the AeroportEkspress |
Monument to Dostoyevsky in front of the Lenin Library, Moscow |
Wall of the Kremlin and eternal flame, Moscow |
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Ulitsa Tverskaia at night, Moscow |
Tverskaia again |
The Kremlin, from the bottom of Tverskaia |
Another shot of the Kremlin |
Red Square, the Kremlin, and St. Basil's Cathedral |
Novyi Arbat Street, Moscow |
Moscow subway, July 2008 |
Rainy Moscow |
Tolstoy's study, Moscow |
Back of Tolstoy's house |
Girls in the Moscow metro |
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The kitchen |
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The National Library of Bashkortostan |
People buying Kvas |
Revolution Street, a little fruit stand |
A different fruit stand--this is where I usually buy watermelon |
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Lenin Prospekt from the other direction |
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A fountain in Lenin Park |
39 years old and still going strong! |
The White House--home of the government of Bashkortostan |
Birch trees in Lenin Park |
Lenin Park again |
A flower-structure in an Ufa traffic circle |
Mado--pretty good kebabs at a pretty good price |
Convention center |
Old and new on Krupskaia Steet |
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Tukai Mosque, Ufa |
Rainy Day in Ufa |
Street in downtown Ufa |
Walking down Prospekt Lenina |
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In Iakupov Park |
Laki inside Iakupov Park |
Child waving to the children's train in Iakupov Park |
Out on the town in Ufa |
The Academy of Sciences |
Rizaeddin Fahreddin's grave |
At lunch with Marsil Farkhshatov and Ramil Bulgakov |
Ufa River--view from restaurant |
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The Blue Lakes of Kazan |
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Bähetle--my favorite supermarket chain in Russia. |
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Apartment buildings on the outskirts of Kazan |
Bauman Street, Kazan |
Tukaev Street, Kazan |
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Birch Tree beauty |
Kremlin Tower |
Minarets from Kol Sharif Mosque from inside Kremlin |
Annunciation Cathedral |
Annunciation Cathedral with Kol Sharif Mosque in Background |
Kol Sharif Mosque |
Newly constructed Catholic church in Kazan |
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Cruising Bauman Street |
Last night in Kazan |
First day in Istanbul |
Back in town: Istiklal Caddesi in September |
More Istiklal |
The Bosphorus from Bebek |
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A road in Arnavutköy |
This cat likes to chill out on my balcony sometimes |
Kuleli, the War College, on the other side of the Bosphorus |
Arnavutköy |
Arnavutköy again |
Greek church in Arnavutköy |
By the Bosphorus between Arnavutköy and Bebek |
The Bosphorus Bridge |
More fishermen between Arnavutkoy and Bebek |
In November I went to Vancouver for a job visit. I saw absolutely nothing of the city, but managed to take a few shots from my hotel window. Here is one of them. |
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A gorgeous shot from campus |
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This shot was taken my last day in town, which I suppose is why I'm looking so wiped out. |
Downtown Bozeman. The joke, of course, is that it's a "one horse town" |
Back in Ann Arbor. State Street
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The room even had windows I could open |
Amsterdam at night |
Coffee shops in the Red Light district |
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My Dad in front of our old apartment building |
Shot from the metro. I used to take this line to school and back every day. |
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Montmartre |
Pompidou Center |
In the metro |
Back in Istanbul. Sunset over the Golden Horn |
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The Galata Bridge over the Golden Horn |
On the ferry from Eminönü to Arnavutköy |
The Bosphorus Bridge lit up at night |
Mosque in Ortaköy, Bosphorus Bridge in Background |
The little dock at Arnavutköy |
Rumeli Kavağı and the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge |
Heading off, by bus, to Trabzon |
Uzun Sokak in Trabzon |
The Black Sea in Trabzon |
Sümela Monastery outside Trabzon |
On the way back to Trabzon from the monastery |
View from my hotel room in Trabzon |
On the bus from Trabzon to Hopa |
On the minibus from Hopa to the Georgian border |
Church in Batumi |
Theatre in Batumi |
On the beach |
The Archive of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara |
The reading room staff at the AARA |
At the American Corner in Batumi--note how almost everyone is wearing a coat indoors |
On the town with three of the archive staff |
The little cafe where I often ate in Batumi |
Park in Kutaisi |
The rushing waters of the Rioni River in Kutaisi |
The Rioni again |
Belltower of Bagrati Cathedral, on hill overlooking Kutaisi |
View of Kutaisi from Bagrati Cathedral |
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Motsameta Monastery |
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With George, a monastery student I met at Motsameta |
On the road from Motsameta to Gelati Monastery |
Gelati Monastery in the distance |
Gelati Monastery |
Little church in the back of the monastery |
Inside of main church at Gelati |
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Snow-capped mountains outside Kutaisi |
Mountains as seen from Bagrati Cathedral |
Vani |
Another Vani shot |
Cable Car in Kutaisi |
View from Besiki Park |
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Rustaveli Street |
Attractive side-street in Tbilisi |
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The parliament building on Rustaveli Street, with prostesters in front of it |
This is the street I lived on |
Another shot from the old town |
Interesting architecture from the old town |
Castle from the other side of the river |
On the other side of the river |
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Anti-government protesters on Rustaveli Street |
A beautiful shady street near the old town |
Aluminum Lady from near the old town |
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Metekhi Church and the guy on horseback again |
Another shot of the baths from outside |
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Rustaveli Street in early May |
A sidewalk exhibition marking the 'genocide' of Chechens in the recent wars |
Statue in a small park near my house |
On the road again: heading out of Tbilisi by marshrutka |
Mountains on the way to Kutaisi |
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On the rocks: at the beach in Batumi |
Trying to keep it cool |
Cafe in Batumi |
I think Batumi was the most strikingly beautiful city I visited in Georgia |
A familiar site: guys playing backgammon in front of a shop |
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Adjarian khachapuri: with egg, cheese, butter, and extra cholesterol |
On my way to the border and Turkey |
Goodbye, Batumi! Goodbye, Georgia! |
Hello, Turkey! Black Sea in the distance as I travel from Hopa to Artvin |
Snowy mountains in the background en route to Artvin |
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Halil Pasha Mosque in Artvin |
Side-street in Artvin |
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Still following the Çoruh River |
I still can't get over how amazing this area was |
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Walls to Ani, a ninth-century Silk Road city outside Kars. |
Just inside the walls |
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The ruins of this church were apparently struck by lighting in the 1950s. |
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This gorge apparently marks the border between Turkey and Armenia |
Fortress at Ani |
On top of the fortress |
Kars Fortress in downtown Kars |
View of Kars from the fortress |
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On the road from Kars to Van |
Visiting the 'Cat House' in Van |
The Cat House |
Female cat--with two blue eyes |
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Hiking up the side of Van Castle |
Looking up at the castle |
At the top of the first level |
View from the top of first level |
Here's the rest of the castle, after the first level |
Shot of the rest of the castle from the bottom |
My last day in Van, I went to Akdamar Island in Lake Van |
There is supposedly a monster in Lake Van, but I didn't see it. |
On the boat heading out to Akdamar Island |
Old Armenian church on Akdamar Island |
Another shot of the Armenian church |
From Akdamar Island |
Inside the church |
Door of church |
Shot from the other side of the island |
It got very windy and choppy on our way back to shore |
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All photos copyright James H. Meyer