An exhibition “Gold of Ancient Kyrgyzstan” has been opened today at the Historial State Museum. There is a large unique collection of ancient gold, found on the territory of modern Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyz parliament approved the project of the resolution about an establishment of a Memorial Day for victims of the tragic events of 1916 . It is supposed that the Memorial Day will be held yearly on the first Friday of August.
“This day is necessary to restore historical justice regarding the victims of the […]

With several references to “Canteen Frunze” by Asel (RUS) and Josh over at Registan, some of you might be wondering: “Who on earth is this ‘Frunze’ character.” Then again, you very well might not care. In any case, here is a brief description of the famous Bolshevik.
Born in Pishpek (now Bishkek), Mihkail Vasilevich […]

This is a translation of the Russian post.
Recently there have been quite a few articles on online news agencies about usage of old Soviet terminology for the trademarks and sale of goods that are symbolic of the USSR. For instance, the Russian online news agency InoSMI published a translated article from the New […]

Where does this photo come from? Read on to find out in the rest of this post, and see more photos.

Worshipping at sacred sites is a well-known cultural behavior all over the world and in Kyrgyzstan, worshipping at sacred sites is a wide spread phenomenon as well. In the Kyrgyz language sacred sites are called ‘mazars.’ ‘Mazar’ is a word from the Arabic language it means “a place which is visited.” It […]