01 Jun 1981
A Stamp
A powerful ironic work of the society in which a hydro-central is erected in an area where there is no water.
The Botanist
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, a former Soviet Socialist Republic, plunged into a devastating civil war. A famine struck the mountainous region of the Pamir where Raïmberdi, a passionate and ingenious botanist, built his own hydroelectric station to help his family survive through the crisis.
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