Kyrgyz in Turkey. In the village of Uluu Pamir in the Turkish province of Van, about 800 people moved there in 1982, led by Rahmankul-khan. Currently, the population of this group exceeds 3,000 people. In recent years, some Kyrgyz, especially the youth, have been leaving Uluu Pamir in search of work and education, relocating to Istanbul (over 100 families), Malatya, Adana, Izmir, and other cities in Turkey (Kaipov, 2012, p. 49). The residents of Uluu Pamir engage in livestock farming, raising
Kyrgyz of Afghanistan. The settlement of the Afghan part of the Pamir by Kyrgyz began in the 16th-18th centuries and continued until the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries. The last waves of migration were caused by the policies of the Kokand Khanate and the Russian Empire towards the Kyrgyz living in the southwest of the Fergana Valley, the consequences of the 1916 uprising, as well as Soviet reforms in the 1920s-1930s in southern Kyrgyzstan. The Kyrgyz of the Greater and Lesser
Kyrgyz in China The Kyrgyz in the People's Republic of China are mainly settled in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), with a small group also living in Fuyu village in Inner Mongolia (Heilongjiang) - their ancestors migrated here in the Middle Ages directly from the Minusinsk Basin. Today, the Kyrgyz of Xinjiang number about 200,000 and are distributed in valleys and foothills throughout the region: from the east (Altai) to the west (Pamir), from the south (Hotan - in northern
Kyrgyz in Kazakhstan. Small groups of ethnic Kyrgyz have found themselves in various parts of present-day Kazakhstan since the 17th century for various reasons. Information about this is available not only in genealogical traditions (Smailulu, 2007) but also in written sources. During an ethnographic expedition in 2005 led by Professor S. Azhigali, while collecting materials on the folk history of the genealogy of the large Kazakh tribal union of the Junior Zhuz (Kiuii zhuz) Alimuly (Elgmuly),
Kyrgyz of Tajikistan The Kyrgyz of Tajikistan are mainly settled in Pamir - in the Murghab District of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region and in Khatlon - in the Jirgatal District of the Republic of Tajikistan. According to the 2000 census, there were 65.5 thousand ethnic Kyrgyz in Tajikistan, of which 2/3 are located in Khatlon (Jirgatol), and the rest in Pamir (Murghab). Starting from the 16th century, waves of Kyrgyz migrants could repeatedly penetrate into Khatlon. In particular,
Kyrgyz in Uzbekistan Beyond Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz people have long lived in China and Uzbekistan, where they appeared in the middle of the second millennium, and from the 16th to 18th centuries - in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Kazakhstan. For ethnic Kyrgyz who have historically lived and worked in these states, they are considered their historical homeland. In recent times, in the 20th century, Kyrgyz people appeared in Turkey, and during the years of Kyrgyzstan's independence - in other
