Ascension Cathedral in Verny88
1906 Almaty, Kazakhstan
This 1906 photograph shows the Ascension Cathedral in Verny, the Russian colonial town later renamed Almaty, a Russian Orthodox cathedral built almost entirely of wood in the early 1900s to help it withstand the region's frequent earthquakes.
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Ascension Cathedral through time — all 5 photos taken here (1887–1913) →
