Строительство телеграфной линии Токмак-Пржевальск в 1900 г.

The construction of the Tokmak-Przhevalsk telegraph line in 1900. Music: Romance. Played on the Domra. Here I present a fascinating set of photographs of the telegraph line being installed from Tokmak and Przhevalsk, now known as Karokol, in the Jalal-Abad Province of Kyrgyzstan. When these photographs were taken in 1900, Kyrgyzstan was within the southern borderlands of the Russian Empire