Yanardag ( tk, Ýanardag/Янардаг "Fiery Mountain", born 1991), is an

Akhal-Teke The Akhal-Teke ( or ; from Turkmen ''Ahalteke'', ) is a Turkmen horse breed. They have a reputation for speed and endurance, intelligence, and a distinctive metallic sheen. The shiny coat of the breed led to their nickname, "Golden Horses". ...

stallion owned by the former

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, Saparmurat Niyazov. The stallion is depicted on the

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, on a 2001

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Turkmenistan postage stamp, and in other Turkmen national representations, and he is also often featured in newspaper and magazine articles.

Biography and representations

Yanardag is an Akhal-Teke horse bred by Geldy Kyarizov, and foaled in

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in 1991,Yanardag
at the official Turkmenistan webpage on Akhalteke horses
Archived page.
/ref> the year of Turkmenistan's independence from the Soviet Union. Yanardag was named world champion of the breed in 1999 in Moscow, and was subsequently acquired by Saparmurat Niyazov, who was President of Turkmenistan 1990–2006. He is described on the official Turkmenistan webpage on Akhalteke horses as having a "unique golden-dun colour, characteristic for all Akhalteke horses". According to the Akhal-Teke Association of America, "golden dun", called ''Bulanaya'', is the color buckskin, produced by the cream gene, sometimes overlaid with

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shading. While ''bulanaya'' is the Russian word for the color called buckskin in the USA, ''bulanaya'' is sometimes translated "dun" when using an outdated

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term for diluted colors. There are no Akhal-Tekes registered as ''savrasaya'' (the Russian word for the dun color) in the Russian stud books. A lifelike image of Yanardag, in a sphere of blue, has been the central figure of the

since 2003. His image is also on a 2001 Turkmenistan postage stamp, and on the reverse of the 2005 50- manat note. In 2014 a monument to Yanardag was completed and unveiled in Turkmenistan's capital city of

Ashgabat Ashgabat or Asgabat ( tk, Aşgabat, ; fa, عشق‌آباد, translit='Ešqābād, formerly named Poltoratsk ( rus, Полтора́цк, p=pəltɐˈratsk) between 1919 and 1927), is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It lie ...

References

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External links

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