Archive sections: ‘For the Record’
The “Krasnaya Gvozdika”, (“Red Carnation”), choir of Second World War and Labour Veterans as established in 1987 in Frunze Officers’ House by members of the veterans’ concert group, “Go time!”, which consisted of10 people and was headed by the honoured artist of Kyrgyz Republic, veteran of Baltic front, Valerii Shakhov.
One of the results of the Easter Revolution was that the Interim Government promised constitutional reform. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the declaration of Independence – Kyrgyzstan continued to operate under the auspices of the existing Soviet document. It was on May 5th, 1993, that a new constitution was finally adopted, thus [...]
In the west, the “May Day” holiday is associated with the Labour movement, and the former Soviet Union – with images of parades in Red Square. It may not seem surprising then that a former Soviet Republic decided to keep with tradition and commemorate this day as a national holiday.
The Kumtor Gold Mine is an open-pit gold mining site in the Issyk Kul oblast, about 350 km (220 miles) southeast of the capital Bishkek and 80 km (50 mi) south of Lake Issyk-Kul, near the border with China. It is said to be the seventh-largest gold deposit in the world and the world’s second highest [...]
The Tien Shan is the largest mountain range in Asia, in surface area; length (2800km); and width (at one point reaching 800 km wide) – with a total of 40 peaks over 6000m. It stretches across several countries and about much of the system lies in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic. Extending over 2800km [...]
Just outside Balykchi is a statue of the Russian explorer Pyotr Petrovich Semyenov leading his packhorse. He was awarded the honorary title TienShansky by the Tsar in 1906, some 50 years after his expeditions, in recognition of his achievements.
Roza Isakovna OTUNBAEVA was born in 1950 in Osh, in what was then the Kyrgyz Socialist Soviet Republic, one of the constituent republics of the USSR.
The curious case of the Matrushka Doll may seem like a plot from a James Bond movie, but it had serious implications for, and almost led to the downfall of, the fledgling government following the Tulip Revolution. Following the sudden and unexpected change of power in Kyrgyzstan on March 24, 2005, a split occurred in the victorious [...]
After the Batken Incidents of 1999 and 2000, the extreme South-Western corner of the Kyrgyzstan settled into a period of peace and calm. The Kyrgyz government created a new regional administration – the Batken oblast – hiving off the region and separating it from Osh in order to strengthen the local administration, help combat poverty in the [...]
The extreme south western corner of the country, the mountain slopes forming the southern flanks of the fertile Ferghana valley, used to be part of the Osh oblast. It is a beautiful and remote location, but also one where the population tends to be poor and often feels neglected by the central government in Bishkek. [...]
