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Golden equestrian statue of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on a white-marble cliff, Ashgabat

Golden equestrian statue of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on a white-marble cliff, Ashgabat

Photograph of a gilded statue of a man in a long coat and cap seated on a rearing horse, raising one hand, atop a faceted white-marble cliff on a low marble platform with a metal fence, in a traffic roundabout beside white apartment blocks. A small plaque on the cliff carries a title in Turkmen. The statue joins the president's person to the Akhal-Teke horse, a national symbol, and to the white marble of the capital.

Date
2015
Period
Contemporary
Made by
Government of Turkmenistan (Berdimuhamedov administration)
Region
Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country
Turkmenistan
Medium
Photograph
Issuer type
State
Regime
Turkmenistan Niyazov Berdimuhamedov
Leader
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Commemorate
Theme
Media and information
Techniques
Transfer
Regime
Turkmenistan under Niyazov and the Berdimuhamedovs
Leader
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source
Wikimedia Commons (photograph by P. Hughes), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights
CC BY 4.0 (stated on the Commons file page; photographer own work)
P. Hughes, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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