Chapel in memory of the Verny earthquake93
1907 Almaty, Kazakhstan
This 1907 photograph shows a chapel built in Verny to commemorate the destructive earthquake of 1887, which had leveled much of the Russian garrison town later renamed Almaty and killed hundreds of its residents.
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