- According to information from the National Statistical Committee, from January to October 2025, all regions of the republic showed growth in industrial production, except for the Issyk-Kul region. The leader in terms of production volume is the Chui region, where goods worth approximately 267 billion soms were produced, which is 10.8% more than last year. The Chui region accounts for 45% of the total industrial output of the country.
The Issyk-Kul Electric Networks Enterprise has successfully completed the preparatory activities for the autumn-winter season of 2025–2026 as part of the Ministry of Energy's program aimed at enhancing the reliability of electricity supply. During the preparations, scheduled technical and repair works were carried out at various energy facilities, including power transmission lines and transformer substations. The main objective was to ensure stable and reliable electricity supply for the
The story of Adina Samybek kyzy, who, despite difficulties, has achieved success in sports, is told by a correspondent from Turmush. Adina, born with disabilities, actively participates in para athletics and dances in the "Tumar" group at the Kant Sports School. Her achievements in competitions inspire many. She also gained unique experience by volunteering in Germany for a year and a half thanks to a special project.
The road connecting Naryn and Oruk-Tam will be closed until spring. This decision was made by the Naryn District State Administration. According to the official document, traffic is restricted on the section between the 50th and 75th kilometers: from the village of Eki-Naryn to the Kapchigay area. The restriction will be in effect until April 15, 2026.
In the Naryn region, snowfall continues, and road conditions have significantly worsened, reports the Traffic Safety Department of the Naryn Regional Internal Affairs Directorate. According to the agency, snowfall is observed in the Kuaqy, Dolon, Kyzyl-Bel, and Kyzart passes, which has led to the formation of slippery roads on the Bishkek–Naryn–Torugart highway. Drivers of freight vehicles are ignoring the need to install anti-skid chains, causing traffic jams on the road.
As part of the "Moments of Life" section, we present works from our readers at 24.kg, who are passionate about traveling around Kyrgyzstan and capturing their impressions through photos and videos. First, we will visit the Botanical Garden in Bishkek, after which we will head to Issyk-Kul, explore several interesting places along its shores, and take a stroll around the city of Osh. We will start our journey with Nikolai Manakovsky, who will guide us through the Botanical Garden in
In our new section "Moments of Life," we present works by authors and readers of 24.kg who are passionate about traveling around Kyrgyzstan and love to share their photos and videos. We will start with the Botanical Garden in Bishkek, then head to Issyk-Kul, where we will visit many picturesque places, enjoy views of Lake Sary-Kamysh, and stroll around the Osh region. With Nikolai Manakovsky, we will go to the Botanical Garden to admire the blooming plants.
The Deputy Prime Minister and head of the State National Security Committee, Kamchybek Tashiev, announced on October 30 at the opening of new wastewater treatment facilities in Manas that a new modern city will be built on the site of the existing "Jalal-Abad" airport. According to Tashiev, construction will begin next year after the opening of the new airport.
The accident on the Bishkek - Osh highway became known thanks to eyewitness reports and data from the Traffic Safety Department of the Chui region. The incident occurred on the night of October 25. According to preliminary information, in the village of Sosnovka, the driver of a BMW X5 collided with a Ford Mondeo and, without waiting for help, left the scene of the accident heading north.
In the Call Center Kaktus.media, photographs were sent showing large accumulations of plastic waste near the resort "Jalal-Abad". Reader's photo. Reader's photo. Reader's photo. Addressing the Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology, and Technical Supervision of the Kyrgyz Republic and local self-government bodies, the authors of the complaint noted that the resort area needs protection. Previously, there were barriers in place, which have now been removed, allowing
OPEN-AIR MUSEUM The land of Issyk-Kul is rich not only in legends and myths of the past. A vivid example of this is the open-air museum on the northern outskirts of Cholpon-Ata. The "exhibits" consist of about 900 stones with petroglyphs. The drawings mainly depict goats with spiral horns curled back. Some clearly show sacrificial animals and figures of camels led by caravan drivers. The scenes of hunting and games-competitions are interesting and diverse — there are horsemen in
Chon-Tuz Salt Mine The method of treatment and preventive health improvement using the microclimate of natural salt caves has been known for many years. The emergence of this direction in medicine began in the mid-19th century when the first salt sanatorium was opened in the Polish mine "Wieliczka". Today, salt mines in various parts of our planet are actively used for therapeutic purposes. This treatment method is called speleotherapy. Inhalation of saturated salt aerosol helps
Memorial Complex for the Victims of the Chon-Tash Burial DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT The memorial complex (total area - 2 hectares) consists of a sculptural composition and a museum. The sculptural composition includes: a brick firing oven - the place where 137 people were shot and initially buried; a memorial monument (on September 8, 1999, 137 people were reburied here). The "Ata-Beyit" Museum (area - 400 sq. m) features documents and photographs of the political development of
The Kyrgyz Republic is a mountainous country (average altitude 2750 m above sea level), located in Central Asia. The total length of the borders is about 4508 km, and the area is 198.5 thousand sq. km. The maximum length of the territory from west to east is 925 sq. km, from north to south - 454 km. Kyrgyzstan borders Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and China. The territory of the country consists of intermountain basins and surrounding ridges formed by two mountain systems: the Tien Shan
The city of Shopokov is located at the northern slope of the Kyrgyz Range at an altitude of 740 meters above sea level. The terrain is flat. The city is situated 20 km west of Bishkek, with the international airport located 38 kilometers away. The largest enterprises in the city include a factory for producing technological equipment for the food industry and a sugar plant.
Orlovka — a city in the Kemin District of the Kyrgyz Republic. The status of a city was granted to the urban-type settlement of Orlovka on September 27, 2012. It is located on the northern slope of the Kyrgyz Range, 9 km from the railway station of Bystrovka (on the line from Bishkek (Frunze) to Balikchy (Rybachye)). The population is 5,700 (2017). Its highest point is 1,160 meters above sea level. The length of Orlovka from south to north is 3.0 kilometers, and from west to east — 3.3 km. The
The city of Nookat is located in Kyrgyzstan and is the center of the eponymous district of the Osh region. It lies in the northeast of the Osh region, 43 kilometers from the city of Osh, where the nearest railway station is located. The airport is also situated in the central regional city of Osh. A road runs through the territory of Nookat in the direction of Osh-Batken-Isfana. Population (2017) — 15,921 people.
City of Kök-Jangak (Kyrgyz: Көк-Жаңгак) — a city of regional subordination in the Jalal-Abad region of the Kyrgyz Republic. Population (2017) — 10.2 thousand people.
The city of Kerben is located in the center of the Aksy district, at an altitude of 1200 meters above sea level. The city is located to the northwest of the regional center, the city of Jalal-Abad, at a distance of 220 km, and 60 km from the railway of the city of Tash-Kumyr. The terrain is flat and hilly. The climate is continental. Winters can be harsh, summers are hot, with an average annual temperature of plus 12 degrees Celsius. History. The village was established in 1930 under the name
The city of Kara-Suu serves as the administrative center of the district of the same name. It was founded as a settlement near transport lines - the Osh - Jalal-Abad highway and the railway. The distance to the capital of Kyrgyzstan is 650 km, and to the nearest airport in the city of Osh — 22 km. The closest airport is located 24 kilometers away. The city limits are crossed by the Bishkek – Urumqi highway of interregional significance and the railway mainline connecting Europe, the CIS
From the settlement Molotovsky - to the city of Kainды The city of Kainды is located not far from the international highway connecting Almaty with Termez. It is 77 kilometers away from Bishkek. It was granted city status in 2012. Previously, it was called Molotovsky, during the time when it was a small settlement similar to those in the region. Within the city, there is a railway station serving passengers on the Bishkek – Chaldovar line. The length of Kainды from south to north is 6.6
Kadamjay - "Holy Place". The emergence of the city of Kadamjay is linked to the beginning of construction in this area of the antimony plant in the metalworkers' settlement in the 1930s. By 1941, it received the official name Frunze and the status of an urban settlement. In 1992, it was given its current name, which means "holy place." In 2012, Kadamjay became a city and absorbed surrounding settlements, including the district center, the village of Pulgon. Kadamjay is
Isfana— a small town located on the outskirts of the western part of the Batken region in southern Kyrgyzstan. Isfana is situated in the southern part of the Fergana Valley, in a region surrounded on three sides by Tajikistan. According to some sources, the word "Isfana" comes from the Sogdian word "aspanakent," meaning "land of horses." It is believed that the word "Isfana" originates from the Sogdian words "asbanikat," "asbanikent,"
Aydarken – a small town and industrial center in the central part of the Batken region. The population is 9,926 people (2017). It is located in a mountain plain basin (at an altitude of about 2000 meters), formed by one of the tributaries of the Ak-Suu River. The basin is surrounded by the mountains of the Alai Ridge. A road leads to Aydarken from the Fergana Valley, continuing towards Kanibadam. The district center is located 45 kilometers east of Aydarken. The town grew on the site of the
Samples of decorative brickwork of domes Alymbek Medrese is one of the well-known madrasahs in Osh, built in the late 1850s by the Kyrgyz tribal leader of Alai, a prominent Kokand feudal lord Alymbek-Datka. According to contemporaries, its decoration competed with the khan's madrasah in Kokand. The building, made of fired brick, was notably strong. According to archival documents, a circus was later established here. It consisted of a darс-khana, khanaka, and 28 cells, where three
It is precisely about this region that famous travelers such as Semenov-Tian-Shansky, Mushketov, Severtsev, Przhevalsky, Fedchenko, and many others wrote with great admiration and inspiration. This is the highest mountainous zone of Kyrgyzstan: almost the entire territory of the Inner Tian Shan is located above the mark of 1500 meters above sea level. Here, so many bright attractions are concentrated that one can see them only by traveling to different corners of the globe.
Do you remember the business people from O. Henry's stories? No, not the adventurous plot where a child is kidnapped for ransom, but another one about how real business is done. Enterprising individuals, discovering that the islanders walk barefoot, immediately decided: business can be made by selling shoes. And they began to sell them, putting everything on the line in the full sense of the word: livestock was slaughtered, leather was tanned, shoes were sewn, and a ship loaded with shoes
The main types and forms of relief in the region are the result of prolonged geological development of the territory, tectonics, combined with the complex composition of the lithology of rocks and the active participation of various physical-geographical processes. All of this has determined the complex diversity of the surface structure of the Chuy Valley and its mountainous framing.
The main structures of the Chui Basin and its mountainous framing were formed by Baikal and Caledonian orogenies. The oldest (Archean - early Proterozoic) crystalline basement is exposed in the eastern mountain framing of the basin called Aktyuz-Bordin; in the northern framing of the basin, the gneissic basement lies at a depth of 2-3 km, plunging to 12 km to the south, and in the axial part of the Kyrgyz Range - to a depth of up to 5 km.
The Chui Valley (depression) and the Kyrgyz Ridge framing it from the south are located within the Caledonian Ulu-Tau-North Tien Shan structural-facial zone, which serves as a peculiar structural axis of the Tien Shan.
The Chui Valley is located on the northern edge of the Kyrgyz Republic. The Kyrgyz part of the valley covers the relatively extensive left bank of the Chu River from the meridian of the Boom Gorge in the east to the upper and middle reaches of the river (Aspara) Ashmara, a right tributary of the Kuragaty River in the west. The valley stretches in a latitudinal direction from west to east over a distance of 200 km, and 100 km from north to south at its widest point. To the west and northwest,
Negotiations are underway regarding the delimitation of state borders between the governmental commissions of the two countries after a long forced break. The negotiation process was interrupted in 1998 due to the internal political situation in Tajikistan, which was caused by the aftermath of the civil war in that country. A Protocol on the comprehensive consideration of bilateral issues between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan (1996) has been signed, which outlines the beginning of discussions on
At the state border of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, 1400 square kilometers of area are subject to delimitation and demarcation. Of this area, 994 km² have been jointly surveyed and clarified, and 290 km² have been agreed upon. According to the information from the government commission of the Kyrgyz Republic on the delimitation and demarcation of the state border with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, the agreed section passes through the territories of the Jalal-Abad and Talas regions of Kyrgyzstan.
The administrative-territorial demarcation of the republics of the former USSR predetermined the complexities in the process of legal formalization of state borders of the CIS countries in accordance with international practice. The main principles of this process are defined in the Agreement on the Creation of the CIS (December 8, 1991), the Almaty Declaration on the Formation of the CIS (December 21, 1991), the Minsk Declaration (February 14, 1992), treaties on eternal friendship and
The history of the formation of the modern Kyrgyz-Chinese border dates back to the second half of the 19th century, during the period of Russia's conquest of the Kokand Khanate, when the lands of the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz previously captured by Kokand were gradually incorporated into the Russian Empire. Its new territories in the Central Asian-Kazakhstan region reached the borders with the Chinese Empire: the Semirechye region with its Issyk-Kul (later known as Przhevalsk) district and the
Historical-Architectural and Modern Attractions, as well as Natural-Ecological Complexes Cities Naryn Kochkor Natural-Ecological Complexes: Upper Naryn Small Naryn Architectural Monuments Koshoy-Korgon Settlement (7th-8th centuries) Tash-Rabat - Caravanserai of the 15th century Mausoleum of Taylak-Batyr (19th century) Stone Age Settlement (On-Archa) Water Resources: Naryn River Lake Son-Kul Lake Chatyr-Kul Toktogul Reservoir Uch-Korgon Reservoir Kurpsay Reservoir Sarala-Saz Waterfall Son-Kul
Historical and Cultural Monuments of the City of Karakol Attractions of the Southern Shore of Issyk-Kul and Terskey Ala-Too Attractions of the Northern Shore of Lake Issyk-Kul and Kungay Ala-Too Sunken Cities and Lake Issyk-Kul
Natural and ecological complexes: Shamsi Natural Complex Ala-Archa National Park Chon-Kemin Zone Kegety Zone Issyk-Ata Zone Alamedin Zone Ala-Archa Zone
During the period under consideration, the Kyrgyz population occupied approximately the same part of the territory that now constitutes the Kyrgyz Republic.
All political entities of the Middle Ages in the territory of Central Asia somehow affected the territory of Kyrgyzstan. The western regions of the Turkic Khaganate encompassed the territory of modern Kyrgyzstan. As early as 553, Istemi, the younger brother of the khagan Bumyn, included the lands of 10 tribes into the khaganate. The khaganates that arose after the collapse of the First Turkic Khaganate (early VII century) — the Western Turkic, Turgish, Karluk, and Karakhanid khaganates — were
The Saka tribes were divided into three parts. In the southern regions of Kyrgyzstan lived the Saka-Haumavarga — the Sakas who "worship Hauma" (a sacred plant), in its northern regions — Saka-Tigrahauda — the Sakas who wore pointed hats. The Saka Tiya-Tiya-Daraya (riverine Sakas) lived in the basin of the Jaxartes River (Syr Darya) on the territory of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
The Talas Region is located in the northwestern part of the Kyrgyz Republic. It was established on June 22, 1944. The region consists of 4 districts (Talas, Bakai-Ata, Kara-Buura, Manas), 1 city - Talas, and 90 villages, united into 35 ayil okmotu. It borders Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the west, Jalal-Abad Region to the south, and Chui Region to the east. The area is 11.4 thousand square kilometers (5.7% of the republic's territory), with a population of 199.9 thousand
The Batken Region was established on October 12, 1999, from the Osh Region. It includes the Batken, Kadamjay, and Leilek districts, the cities of Kyzyl-Kiya, Sulyukta, Batken, Isfana, and 189 rural settlements. The regional center is the city of Batken. The territory of the region is located in the southwest of the country, with 3/4 of its borders being international. The region is surrounded by neighboring states: to the south, west, and northwest it borders Tajikistan, to the north -
