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unusual facts about Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan barrier


Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan barrier

The 1999 Tashkent bombing in February 1999 which were blamed on foreign Islamic militants and the subsequent incursion of the Kyrgyz region of Batken by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who were based in Tajikistan and opposed to Uzbek President Islam Karimov, led to Uzbekistan sealing its border and commencement constructing a barbed wire fence around long sections of its border with Kyrgyzstan in the Ferghana Valley.


2008 Central Asia energy crisis

In Kyrgyzstan, also rich in hydroelectric resources, the cold weather has made demand 10% higher than the same time last year, which is depleting the main Toktogul reservoir for hydroelectric power.

Afghanistan–Uzbekistan barrier

Days after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, when America announced the start of military operations against the Taliban regime based in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan fortified the border fence in the province of Surkhandaria to stop any illegal migrants or refugees crossing the border.

Ak Bulun

Ak-Bulun, Naryn, a village in the Naryn District of Naryn Province of Kyrgyzstan

Ak-Suu District

Located in Kyrgyzstan's eastern corner, the district borders in the north with the Almaty Province of Kazakhstan, and in the east, with the Aksu Prefecture of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Aksay

Aksay, Issyk Kul, a village in the Issyk Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan

Anna Antonicheva

In 1999 she went on a tour to Kyrgyzstan where she played in Don Quixote with Dmitry Belogolovtsev, and in 2000 she traveled to Japan where she appeared in a play called La Bayadire at the New National Theatre Tokyo with Carlos Acosta and Asami Maki as main partners.

Anzor Boltukayev

He competes in the 96 kg division and won the bronze medal in the same division at the 2013 World Wrestling Championships defeating Aleksey Krupnyakov of Kyrgyzstan.

Aramov Clan

The clan is based in the remote Kyrgyzstan, with their base, known as 'The Kremlin' situated on the outskirts of Bishkek.

Beth Rodden

On a climbing trip to Kyrgyzstan's Kara Su Valley in August 2000, Rodden, then-boyfriend Tommy Caldwell, and fellow climbers, Jason "Singer" Smith and photographer, John Dickey, were held hostage for six days by rebels from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

Boris Yeltsin Peak

Vladimir Putin Peak (Kyrgyzstan) - named in 2011 for the second president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

Chigils

The eastern Kagan was the senior Kagan, with his court in Kashgar and Balasagun (Buran fortress, near Tokmak in Kyrgyzstan).

Evgeny P. Bazhanov

He was Academic advisor of 50 PhD dissertations defended by President of South Korea Kim Dae-jung, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan Alikbek Jekshenkulov, Ambassadors to Russia of Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Palestine and many prominent Russian politicians, educators and diplomats.

Forest swastika

In September 2006 The New York Times reported on another forest swastika in Eki Naryn, Kyrgyzstan, on the edge of the Tian Shan Mountains.

Harvard Mountaineering Club

In the summer of 2005, a group of HMCers led by then-president Lucas Laursen revived the club first-ascent tradition with an exploratory climbing trip to the Borkoldoy Too of Kyrgyzstan.

Interhelpo

Trains from railway stations Žilina and Brno transported 1078 persons (including mainly Czechs and Slovaks, but also Hungarians, Ruthenians and other nationalities, and including both direct members and their families) to Kyrgyzstan.

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

Later that year the IMU conducted its first verifiable operations, with an incursion into the Batken region of southern Kyrgyzstan – a region populated mainly by ethnic Uzbeks, and lying between Tavildara in Tajikistan and the Fergana Valley in Uzbekistan.

Jeti-Oguz

Jeti-Oguz District, a region of Issyk Kul Province in Kyrgyzstan, where the village and rock formation are located

Jeti-Ögüz resort

Jeti-Ögüz (Kyrgyz: Жети-өгүз, seven bulls) is a balneotherapic resort located at the north slope of Teskey Ala-Too mountain range near Issyk Kul in the Jeti-Oguz District of Issyk Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan, about 28 km west of Karakol.

Kanatbek Begaliev

Kanatbek Begaliev (born 14 February 1984 in Talas, Kyrgyz SSR) is a Kyrgyz wrestler who won the silver medal in the Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Kant, Kyrgyzstan

The Kant Air Base near the city is now host to the Russian Air Force's 5th Air Army's 999th Air Base positioned in Kyrgyzstan in response to the United States presence at Manas Air Base.

Kazakh wine

The earliest evidence of viticulture in Kazakhstan appear during the 7th century AD around Shymkent and in the foot hills of Tian Shan in Almaty Province near the Kazakh-Kyrgyzstan border.

Kök-Jar

Famous people from Kok-Jar include Choton Baatyr (Чотон Баатыр) who killed Alimbek Datka (Kurmanjan Datka's husband, and Minister of the Kokand Khanate), and Mitalip Mamytov (Миталип Мамытов) who performed the first brain surgery in Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyz cuisine

Uzgen paloo is made with locally grown rice from the southern Uzgen District of Kyrgyzstan.

Kyzyltu

Kyzyltu, Kyrgyzstan, a village in the Jalal-Abad Province, Kyrgyzstan

Melis Myrzakmatov

On 5 December 2013, the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Zhantoro Satybaldiyev issued a decree and dismissed Myrzakmatov from his post as mayor of Osh.

Michael Succow

After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.

Myrzakan Subanov

Myrzakan Usurkanovich Subanov (Kyrgyz and Russian: Мырзакан Усурканович Субанов; born 15 October 1944) is a Soviet and Kyrgyzstani military leader who served as post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan's chairman of the State Defense Committee in 1992-1993 and first Minister of Defense in 1993-1999.

Oropolitics

Another example is the Chinese publication Raising the Five Star Flag on Mount Tomur, an account of the successful Chinese expedition of 1977 to the Tien Shan peak better known by its Russian name as Pik Pobedy (nowadays renamed yet again by Kyrgyzstan as Jengish Chokusu).

Oyalma

Oyalma, Jalal-Abad, a village in the Jalal-Abad Province of Kyrgyzstan

Pamir Mountains

The Pamir Highway, the world's second highest international road, runs from Dushanbe in Tajikistan to Osh in Kyrgyzstan through the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, and is the isolated region's main supply route.

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki

Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki was born in 569 A.H. (1173 C.E.) in a small town called Aush (alternatively Awash or Ush) in the Fergana Valley (present Osh in southern Kyrgyz Republic(Kyrgyzstan), part of historic Transoxania).

Reede-drum

The drum itself did not gain wide recognition until the Kyrgyzstan traditional music resurgence in the 1950s in which it became known through the work of The Clancy Brothers and others.

Saimaluu Tash

Saimaluu Tash (or Saimaly Tash, 'decorated stones' in Kyrgyz) is a petroglyph site in Jalal-Abad Province, Kyrgyzstan, south of Kazarman.

Sarybulak

:For the town in the Issyk Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan, see Sarybulak, Issyk Kul; for the village in Azerbaijan, see Sarıbulaq.

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

The current SCO Secretary-General is Muratbek Imanaliyev of Kyrgyzstan, a former Kyrgyz Minister of Foreign Affairs and professor at the American University of Central Asia.

Subsequent annual summits of the Shanghai Five group occurred in Almaty (Kazakhstan) in 1998, in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) in 1999, and in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) in 2000.

Snow Leopard award

In Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains there are 3 Snow Leopard peaks, Ismail Samani Peak (formerly Communism Peak) 7,495 m (24,590 ft), Peak Korzhenevskaya 7,105 m (23,310 ft), and Ibn Sina Peak (formerly Lenin Peak) 7,134 m (23,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border.

Stadion Sportkompleks Abdysh-Ata

Stadion Sportkompleks Abdysh-Ata is a multi-use stadium in Kant, Kyrgyzstan.

Tang Xiujing

In Emperor Ruizong's Chuigong era (685-689), Tang Xiujing was made the deputy commandant of Anxi (安西, headquarters at Suyab (near modern Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan)).

Tash Rabat

Tash Rabat is a well-preserved 15th century stone caravanserai in At Bashy district, Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan.

Tengri

In Kyrgyzstan, Tengrism was suggested as a Pan-Turkic national ideology following the 2005 presidential elections by an ideological committee chaired by state secretary Dastan Sarygulov.

Tulip Revolution

But it was "Tulip Revolution," a term that Akayev himself used in a speech warning that no such Color Revolution should happen in Kyrgyzstan, that came to represent the movement.

Vasily Danilov

Vasilii Danilov (born 1988), 2004 and 2008 Olympic swimmer from Kyrgyzstan

Venezuelan Poodle Moth

The Venezuelan Poodle Moth is a possible new species of moth discovered in 2009 by Dr. Arthur Anker of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in the Gran Sabana region of Venezuela.

Ysyk-Ata District

In 1992, the air base was transferred to Kyrgyzstan authorities; since 2003 it hosts Russian Air Force units.

Zhantoro Satybaldiyev

The gold mine owned by the Canadian company Centerra Gold, is one of the most important contributors to Kyrgyzstan's economy, adding nearly 12% to the national GDP.


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