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What's Ground Will Become Flour — photo essayThe 'exotic village' high in the mountains of the Kashkadarya region, 700-year-old Gilan has only in recent years become a mecca for ethnotourism and a source of inspiration for photographers and artists. Admiring the authentic way of life, people rarely consider how life is organised in one of the most inaccessible mountain villages. Yet such a way of life presupposes not only traditional customs and a manner of living, but also ancient means of production. The people of Gilan are almost entirely self-sufficient in wheat, the milling of which is the responsibility of hereditary millers. The old water mill at an altitude of 2,000 metres — in a photo essay by Ildar Sadykov and Sergey Pogosyan.Ildar Sadykov, Maria Maksimycheva#Places#Heritage & Identity