Over the centuries only few caravans dared to cross the northern route of the silk road that today lies in the territory of Kazakhstan. In this portion of Asian desert there was no place to rise a majestic city nor anything else worth fighting for. Until in 1955 the Soviet government realised that those lands, for how much far could they be from the rest of the World, were just one step away from the Universe.

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