We start our city walk in Bishkek at the city hall in Chuy Avenue. Chuy Avenue is the important cross connection from west to east in Bishkek.
The blue gable of the town hall brings invigorating color to the cityscape. To the right is the National Bank.
Opposite at the end of the alley is a building of the university. On the right side of a long parkway is the Philarmonic Hall, Toktogul Satylganov.
In front of it is a monument of Manas, the Kyrgyz national hero. His stretched arm with the sword as an extension serves the birds as a preferred resting place.
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More InformationThe view back along Chuy Ave shows another building of the University, opposite the National Bank.
In the video, we make a virtual jump one kilometer to the east and are now in front of the White House, the parliament of Kyrgyzstan. The total number of representatives is 129. But, a regulation limits the number of representatives per party to 85.
Thus a single party cannot become omnipotent. Despite all efforts to ensure the equal rights of the women, the women are under-represented in the parliament.
To the east of Parliament, the Stela of Nations Friendship stretches towards heaven.
We now reach the center of Bishkek with Ala-Too Square, which is bordered to the north by the National Historical Museum. On the open space in front of it is another monument to the national hero Manas, erected by German prisoners of war, most of whom did not survive.
Here is also an impressive flagpole with the flag of Kyrgyzstan. At the roadside of Chuy Avenue, one set up flags and podiums for the upcoming Independence Day.
On the opposite side of Chuy Ave are two huge building blocks surrounded by tent city-like arcades. They house restaurants, shops, and banks. A similar building in the middle with a golden dome on the roof, a bit in the background, houses the Ministry of Agriculture.
In front of it stands a monument of the most important Kyrgyz writer and politician Chingiz Aitmatov, whom we got to know already in Cholpon Ata.
The building to the east, the Ministry of Culture and Information, is built in the original architecture of the pre-Soviet era. In eastern direction follows a picture gallery.
Again to the east is Dubviy Park, where there is also km zero, where we started our drone flight. In front is the monument of Kurmanjan Datka (Kurmanzhan Datka). She is described as the Queen of the South.
At a young age, she was forcibly married but fled because she did not like her future husband. Later she married the local feudal lord Datka Alimbek, who was soon murdered.
Yet, the Khans of Bukhara and Kokand recognized her as the ruler of the Alai and she received the title of Datka. When Russia annexed the Alai region, she persuaded her people to give up the senseless resistance. Later her favorite son was sentenced to death for smuggling and executed.
She refused to intervene because she was not willing to turn her private problems into problems of her people. After that, she withdrew from public life. In 1995 a women’s commission was named after her, which is now called Woman’s Public Union Arayim.
We go on through the park which is adorned by many statues. Also, a monument to the red guards is here, next to a fountain.
We reach the National Museum of Fine Arts, named after Gapar Aitiev, a Kyrgyz artist, member of the KPDSU. He also received the Toktogul State Prize, the Lenin Order, and other orders and medals.
The opera on the opposite side of the street is under restoration.
We walk further south to the Monument to the Revolution Fighters. It is a typical monumental monument from Soviet times.
In the middle is a Statue of Liberty in the shape of a woman, outside one draped some groups in honor of the martyrs of the revolution.
Our last stop this afternoon is Victory Square. Here is the monument of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the USSR, dedicated to the victory over Nazi Germany.
Three red granite arches symbolize a yurt with a woman waiting for her husband. An external flame conveys the interior a particular atmosphere.
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Disclosure: Our trip was organized in cooperation with Discover Kyrgyzstan, and made possible by the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). All opinions are our own.
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