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Issyk Kul and the Tian Shan

Issyk Kul and the Tian Shan is a region in the east of Kyrgyzstan.

109km

41.6676.96
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Cholpon-Ata

town in Kyrgyzstan

101km

42.6577.08333333

Issyk Kul

Lake in Kyrgyzstan

118km

42.4166666777.25

Song Kul

Issyk Kul's little cousin, far more remote, and many would say more beautiful as well.

125km

41.8575.15
Nature

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Balykchy

Kyrgyzstan
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Balykchy

Balykchy (Балыкчы) is a city at Issyk Kul.

The history of Balykchy begins with a post station and farm, established by M. I. Bachin, retired soldier of Naryn Fort in Kyzyl Tokoy area in 1884. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century the settlement was known as Ketmaldy (the nearby river's name), Novodmitrievka (after the family name of the owner of a local stud-farm; E.S.Dmitriev), and Bachino (after M. I. Bachin). It was named Rybachye (fishing place in Russian) from 1909-1993. In the early 1990s, following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the town was known as Issyk-Kul, taking the name of the adjacent lake. Shortly after independence, its name was changed to Balykchy which means fisherman in the Kyrgyz language (and also in its sister language Turkish).

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