U. Akhunov, a master of architectural and industrial landscapes, a singer of the city of Osh, has entered the history of Kyrgyz watercolor. He combines a lyrical talent with a striving for documentary accuracy and portrait-like representation. He created a series of watercolors dedicated to the monuments of medieval architecture in Central Asia (1966), depicting already disappearing cult and civil structures. In a large number of watercolors, Akhunov captured the life of the city of Osh in the 60s and early 70s, where the old and the rapidly developing new were uniquely intertwined (“Corner of Old Osh,” 1968; “Osh Meat Processing Plant,” 1968; “Old Osh,” 1969, fig. 174; “Concrete Plant in the Mountains,” 1971; “Old Street of Osh,” 1974).
