In pictures: Almaty - Kazakhstan's Big Apple

The only surviving 75-year-old tree, beside an orchard of newer trees on the edge of town.

A dried apple left on top of one of the newer trees - harvest-time is mid-September.

A terrace of trees in the orchard.

Horticulturalist Yuri Alexeyev examines the buds on one of the trees. He says the harvest this year was bad but next year's will be good.

The orchard terraces spread across the hillside.

Apples on their way to the main city market, the Green Bazaar.

Apple-sellers inside the market. They cut people slices off the apples to get them to buy some.

The Grushevka variety on sale.