The Gagauzia Autonomous Territorial Unit
The statue of Dmitriy Kara-Çoban (1933-1986), the noted Gagauz ethnographer, local artist, poet and educator, who founded the Gagauz National Museum of History and Ethnography in Beșalma, in 1966. He dedicated a large part of his life to rediscovering the ethnographic and linguistic heritage of Gagauzia.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Tue Oct 13, 2015