A worker looks on at a coal sorting facility in Suluktu, Kyrgyzstan, on Dec. 12. Coalminers load coal rocks into a mine cart at the Kara-Altyn Ken coal mine outside Suluktu, Kyrgyzstan, on Dec. 13. Nimadjan Abdulayevich, 64, walks past a Soviet mosaic in Suluktu, Kyrgyzstan, on Dec. 12. The mayor said he hoped Suluktu would recover its “past glory” thanks to growing demand for coal. A mosaic nearby extols the glory of Soviet power, showing a miner with a red star behind him.
