Golden Eagle Festival, Kazakh, Bayan Olgii, Mongolia

Kazakh man with golden eagle in Ulaankhus, Bayan Olgii Mongolia.Up until 1930, the nomads could freely move between Kazakhstan, Mongolia and the Chinese province of Xinjiang. However, after the founding of the Mongolian People’s Republic in 1924, many of them gave up their semi-nomadic lifestyle and began settling down in the western Mongolian highlands.