Archive: November 13th, 2010
Ilya Fyodotovich Terentev served as the first elected mayor of the city, between 1895 and 1900, although – for some reason – he doesn’t appear on all of the lists enumerating the Mayors of the city.
As a nomadic people, travelling from place and erecting yurts wherever there was pasture for their livestock … the Kyrgyz don’t have a wide heritage in terms of architecture. Indeed, some people say that the closest they came to architecture was in erecting mausoleums for people after they had died. Of course, the Kyrgyz were not [...]
Let me start this week with an apology and a correction. Last week I said that there were going to be two public holidays this week, which meant a “three day working week”. Well, I got it wrong … the Muslim holiday, Kurman Ait, falls next week, not on Friday the 12th. Those of you [...]
