Historical figures

Salieva Urkuya In the very heart of the capital of our homeland, among the weeping willows, majestically stands one of ...

F.A. Fielstrup - one of the first ethnographers studying the Kyrgyz One of those who stood at the origins of Soviet ...

Orozbekov Abdykadir - an outstanding state and public figure, the first head of state. The name of Abdykadir Orozbekov ...

Aristov Nikolai Alexandrovich (1847—1910[2]) A Russian historian, orientalist, and ethnographer, he was one of the ...

Maxim Kirovich Ammosov (1897 - 1937) Born on December 10 (22), 1897, in the Khatyryk nasleg of the Namsky ulus in the ...

Zalman Lvovich Amitin-Shapiro (1899-1968) — a Soviet Orientalist, ethnographer, and classic of Kyrgyz scientific ...

Torokul Aitmatov (1903 - 1938) Born in aul No. 5 (Sheker) of the Kukuryevskaya volost of the Auliye-Ata district in ...

AGAIN HODJA VALIKHAN, AGAIN SHLAGINTWEIT The caravan of Musabay occupied eleven stalls in the "Kunak" shed. ...

THE CHEERFUL CITY In Kashgar, a report from the outpost caused a stir. By order of the authorities, the city was ...

SECRET MISSION Governor-General Gasfort agreed to secretly send his adjutant Chokan Valikhanov to Kashgar — ...

JUST SEMENOV In the autumn of 1857, after a journey through Central Asia, Pyotr Petrovich Semenov — simply Semenov — ...

ADOLPH SCHLAGINTWEIT In early 1857, the German traveler Adolph Schlagintweit, who had been wandering in India for a ...