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Dolon Pass
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Naryn
Naryn ( ky, Нарын, translit=Naryn, Mongolian : Нарийн, Nariin, Traditional Mongolian ᠨᠠᠷᠢᠨ) is the regional administrative center of Naryn Region in central Kyrgyzstan. Its area is , and its estimated population was 41,178 as of January 2021. The town was established as a fortress on the caravan route in 1868. It is situated on both banks of the river Naryn (one of the main head waters of the Syr Darya), which cuts a picturesque gorge through the town. The city has two regional museums and some hotels, but is otherwise residential. History Naryn was established as a fortress on the important caravan route between Kashgar and Zhetysu (Semirechye) at the direction of the first Governor-General of Russian Turkestan Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann in 1868. Overview From Naryn, the main road (one of the branches of the ancient Silk Road) runs south through the sparsely settled central Kyrgyz highlands to the Torugart Pass and China. At present, this is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Route E125
European route E 125 is a Class A in Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Itinerary The E 125 routes through 3 countries: *71A-1011/71A-1109: Ishim - Kazanskoye - border with Kazakhstan *: Sokolovka – Petropavl – border of Russia *: Petropavl - Kokshetau - Astana *: Astana – Karaganda – Almaty *: Almaty - Kaskelen - Kenen * (Branch): Kenen - Korday - Border of Kyrgyzstan * ЭМ-01 Road: Border of Kazakhstan - Georgievka - Bishkek * ЭМ-11 Road: Bishkek - Torugart Pass - Border of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ... ( connects )) External links UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007) 125 E125 E125 {{Kazakhstan-transport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AH61
Asian Highway 61 or AH61 is an international route running from Kashi in China to Krupets in Russia. This route passes through Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan also. Route Kashi – Turugart – Torougart – Naryn – Bishkek – Georgievka – Kordai – Merke – Shymkent – Kyzylorda – Aralsk – Karabutak – Aktyubinsk – Ural’sk – Kamenka – Ozinki – Saratov – Borysoglebsk – Voronezh – Kursk – Krupets – Border of Ukraine. Associated routes China * : Kashgar - Kuquwan * : Kuquwan - junction with G3013 * : junction with G3013 - Tuopa * : Tuopa - Torugart Pass police station * : Torugart Pass police station - Torugart Pass border checkpoint Kyrgyzstan * ЭМ-11 Road: Torugart Pass - Bishkek * ЭМ-01 Road: Bishkek - Georgievka Kazakhstan * Branch : Korday - Merki * : Merki - Shymkent * : Shymkent - Oral * : Oral - Border of Russia Russia *: border with Kazakhstan - Ozinki – Yershov – Pristannoye – Saratov *: Saratov - Borisoglebsk *: Borisog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the east. Its capital and largest city is Bishkek. Ethnic Kyrgyz make up the majority of the country's seven million people, followed by significant minorities of Uzbeks and Russians. The Kyrgyz language is closely related to other Turkic languages. Kyrgyzstan's history spans a variety of cultures and empires. Although geographically isolated by its highly mountainous terrain, Kyrgyzstan has been at the crossroads of several great civilizations as part of the Silk Road along with other commercial routes. Inhabited by a succession of tribes and clans, Kyrgyzstan has periodically fallen under larger domination. Turkic nomads, who trace their ancestry to many Turkic states. It was first established as the Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate later in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songköl Too
Songköl Too (Kyrgyz: Соңкөл тоосу) is a range in the Internal Tien-Shan that arcuately frames Songköl Valley from the north and separates Songköl Valley with Song Kol Lake from Jumgal Valley, and Telek Valley. It is located in Jumgal The Jumgal ( ky, Жумгал) is a river in Jumgal District, Naryn Region, Kyrgyzstan. It is a left tributary of the Kökömeren. The river is formed at the confluence of the rivers Kyzart and Bazarturuk, which originate in the Fergana Range. T ... and Kochkor districts of Naryn Region. The length of the range is , and width up to . Average altitudes are and the maximum altitude - . Difference in elevation between Songköl Too and Songköl Valley - , and between Songköl Too and Jumgal Valley - . Picks are gentle in the western part of the range and rocky - in the eastern. The northern slopes are steep and sharply rugged, and southern ones are gentle. The range is composed by majorly limestone. References Mountain ranges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Pass
A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human and animal migration throughout history. At lower elevations it may be called a hill pass. A mountain pass is typically formed between two volcanic peaks or created by erosion from water or wind. Overview Mountain passes make use of a gap (landform), gap, saddle (landform), saddle, col or notch (landform), notch. A topographic saddle is analogous to the mathematical concept of a saddle surface, with a saddle point marking the highest point between two valleys and the lowest point along a ridge. On a topographic map, passes are characterized by contour lines with an hourglass shape, which indicates a low spot between two higher points. In the high mountains, a difference of between the summit and the mountain is defined as a mountain pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naryn Region
Naryn Region ( ky, Нарын облусу, Naryn oblusu; russian: Нарынская область, Narynskaya oblast) is the largest region ('' oblus'') of Kyrgyzstan. It is located in the east of the country and borders with Chüy Region in the north, Issyk-Kul Region in the northeast, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China in the southeast, Osh Region in the southwest, and Jalal-Abad Region in the west. Its capital is Naryn. Its total area is . The resident population of the region was 292,140 as of January 2021. The main highway runs from the Chinese border at Torugart Pass north to Balykchy on Issyk-Kul Lake. It is known as the location of Song Köl Lake and Chatyr-Kul Lake and Tash Rabat. The population of Naryn oblast is 99% Kyrgyz. The economy is dominated by animal herding (sheep, horses, yaks), with wool and meat as the main products. Mining of various minerals developed during the Soviet era has largely been abandoned as uneconomical. Today the oblast is co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishkek
Bishkek ( ky, Бишкек), ), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. The region surrounds the city, although the city itself is not part of the region but rather a region-level unit of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is situated near the Kazakhstan–Kyrgyzstan border. Its population was 1,074,075 in 2021. In 1825, the Khanate of Kokand established the fortress of Pishpek to control local caravan routes and to collect tribute from Kyrgyz tribes. On 4 September 1860, with the approval of the Kyrgyz, Russian forces led by Colonel Apollon Zimmermann destroyed the fortress. In the present day, the fortress ruins can be found just north of Jibek jolu street, near the new main mosque. In 1868, a Russian settlement was established on the site of the fortress under its original name, Pishpek. It lay within the General Governorship of Russian Turkestan and its Semirechye Oblast. In 1925, the K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balykchy
Balykchy ( ky, Балыкчы) is a town at the western end of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, at an elevation of about 1,900 metres. Its area is , and its resident population was 42,875 in 2021 (both including Orto-Tokoy). A major industrial and transport centre (wool and crop processing, lake shipping, rail terminal, and road junction) during the Soviet era, it lost most of its economic base after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the closure of virtually all of its industrial facilities. The main road from Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, to China, a part of the ancient Great Silk Road, passes through Balykchy before it starts its long and arduous way across the alpine ranges of Naryn Province in central Kyrgyzstan to the Chinese border at Torugart Pass. Plans for the rail road from the Chinese border to Balykchy, where the line from Bishkek currently ends, are under discussion. Two other roads go around the north and south sides of Issyk Kul to Karakol and then around the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torugart
Torugart Pass (; ; ) is a mountain pass in the Tian Shan mountain range near the border between the Naryn Region of Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. It is one of two border crossings between Kyrgyzstan and China, the other being Erkeshtam, some 165 km (103 mi) to the southwest. The scenic lake Chatyr-Köl lies near the pass on the Kyrgyz side. The road to Naryn and then to Balykchy and Bishkek—stretching for some —is narrow and in winter often impassable due to heavy snowfall and frequent avalanches. On the Chinese side, the Torugart Port of Entry (吐尔尕特口岸), where travelers must clear for customs, is located about from the pass itself in Ulugqat County of the Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture. Distances from the pass to major cities are: to Ulugqat, to Kashgar, to Artux and some to Ürümqi. The pass is also terminus of European route E125 and, under the new National Highway plans, the China National Highway 315, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chingiz Aitmatov
Chingiz Mustafayev ( az, Çingiz Mustafayev; born 11 March 1991) is an Azerbaijani singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, represented Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Truth (Chingiz song), Truth", finishing in eighth place. Early life Mustafayev was born in Moscow and moved to his parents' native Qazax, Azerbaijan when he was six years old. He learned to play the guitar and started composing his own songs while still a young boy. Career At age 13, he moved with his mother and his brother to Baku where he auditioned for the Azerbaijani version of ''Pop Idol'' in 2007. Mustafayev won the competition, and soon became a rising star in the Azerbaijani music industry. In 2013, he represented Azerbaijan internationally in the ''New Wave (competition), New Wave'' competition in Jūrmala, Latvia. He placed 11th overall and sang along with Polina Gagarina. Three years later, Mustafayev auditioned for the sixth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
