Women selling bread in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 2000 by Bruno Barbey (source)

A school in Mokok, Dagestan, Russia by Ilyas Hajji (source)

Kakhib, Dagestan, Russia by Ilyas Hajji (source)

Xinjiang, 2007-2014, from Wild Pigeon by Carolyn Drake (source)

Xinjiang, 2007-2014, from Wild Pigeon by Carolyn Drake (source)

Contemporary Uzbek fashion: 'Where history meets creativity', the best of Uzbekistan Fashion Week 2024 (photos by Anna Rakhmatova, Anastasiia Buslova, and Ilya Semendeev, source) Featured: Anor, LALI, Suhrob Habib, Salma Couture, L’armoire

Contemporary Uzbek fashion: a Zukhra Inat design for Moel Bosh at Uzbekistan Fashion Week 2024 (photo by Anna Rakhmatova, source)

Contemporary Russian fashion: Surepka

Contemporary Russian fashion: Masha Adrianova (photographer unknown, source)

Contemporary Russian fashion: ДИЛ

A delegation of priests from the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church visit the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, Sergiev Posad, Russia (photographer unknown, source)

The Ark fortress of Bukhara, Uzbekistan by Hassan Kurbanbaev (source)

3rd March 2024: Divine Liturgy at the Moscow Theological Academy, Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, Sergiev Posad, Russia (photographer unknown, source)

By Timur Karpov (source)

Believers in an Orthodox church in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, by Theodore Kaye (source)

By Theodore Kaye (source)

Kheleturi, Botlikhsky District, Dagestan, Russia, 2021 Screenshots from a video by Mariat Abdulkhamidova (source)