Car parts market in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan

Ref: 930715-151-22a     Date: 15-07-1993

Car parts market in Petropavlovsk, Northern Kazakhstan. By 1993 the state of the Kazakh economy was truly dire. The shops were empty and keeping a car on the road required ingenuity. Petropavlovsk is just across the Russian border and a large proportion of the population in the 1990s was of European ethnicity: Russian, German, Mennonite, Ukrainian, etc.