CREDIT: DOMINIC BRACCO II..SLUG:PRJ/KAZAKHSTAN SHEEP HERDERS..DATE:10/23/2009..CAPTION:Madina Manasbayeva rides out at sunset to herd up her sheep out on the steppe near Semey, Kazakhstan. The herders live near a radio active lake which was made during the 1970s as part of an experiment by the USSR to create lakes from atomic bombs. The lake is in an area known as The Polygon, a test site for more than 400 of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons.
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