Kars in Popular Culture
- Kars is the setting of the novel Kar (Snow) by Orhan Pamuk.
- Modest Mussorgsky composed the march "The Capture of Kars" to commemorate Russia's victory there in 1855.
- The film Kosmos (Cosmos) by Reha Erdem was filmed in and around Kars.
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