Kant, Kyrgyzstan
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Kant () is a town in the
Chüy Valley The Chüy Valley (; ; ) is a large valley located in northern Kyrgyzstan and southern Kazakhstan, in the northern part of the Tian Shan. It extends from Boom Gorge in the east to Muyunkum Desert in the west. It is long and has an area of about . ...
of northern
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyz ...
, some east of Bishkek. It is the administrative center of the
Ysyk-Ata District Ysyk-Ata District (, ) is one of the eight Districts of Kyrgyzstan, districts of the Chüy Region in northern Kyrgyzstan with an area of . The district's resident population was 154,340 in 2021. Since 1998, when the former Kant District was merged ...
(formerly Kant District). Its population was 22,617 in 2021. Kant was established in 1928. The Kyrgyz word for
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is "kant", and the city received its name when a sugar plant was built there in the 1930s (it is an often repeated myth that the town was named after the German philosopher
Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German Philosophy, philosopher and one of the central Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works ...
). Kant is an industrial and service center. Among notable local enterprises is the Abdysh Ata Brewery, whose products are well known throughout Kyrgyzstan. It is also known for its medical institute which is famous by the name of Asian Medical Institute (AsMI). During the Soviet era, Kant and its surrounding area were home to many ethnic Germans who had been forcibly relocated to
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in 1941 from the
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region when the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was abolished. Most left for Germany during the 1990s and after the demise of the Soviet Union when the factories where they had worked shut down. Several other nearby settlements, such as ''Luxemburg'' and Bergtal, still carry their German names, but retain only very small remnants of their
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and
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founders.


Demographics


Geography


Climate

Kant has
humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...
(
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: ''Dsa'').


Air base

The Kant Air Base near the city is now host to the Russian Air Force's 5th Air and Air Defence Forces Army's 999th Air Base positioned in Kyrgyzstan in response to the
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presence at Manas Air Base. The Kant airbase is also a structural subdivision of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). In February 2012, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev called for the Kant base to be closed, saying neither Russia nor Kyrgyzstan needs it. In May, Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin of the Russian Air Force declared his country had no plan to withdraw from the town of Kant, adding that the base’s organizational and personnel structure will remain as is. Later in August, Russia obtained a prolongation period from Kyrgyzstan, allowing Russian military sites to remain for 15 more years after the expiration of the current contract in 2017.


Sister city

* Joppatowne, United States. In April 2011, Joppatowne, Maryland and Kant officially became
sister cities A sister city or a twin town relationship is International relations, a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties. While there ar ...
. This cooperation between Kant and Joppatowne was initiated by the official bodies of both cities. Similarities are in their respective locations below the capitals. * Vidnoye, Russia Image:E8079-Pervomayskoe-mosque.jpg, The mosque in Pervomayskoe village, north of Kant Image:Kant near Bishkek 03-2016 img01 surroundings of the railway station.jpg, City center Image:Kant near Bishkek 03-2016 img04 railway station.jpg, Railway station Image:E8008-Milyanfan-Chinese-building.jpg, In Milianfan village Image:E8072-Milyanfan-south.jpg, In the country


References

{{Ysyk-Ata places Populated places in Chüy Region Volga German diaspora German communities