Kyrgyzstan: a country that is 90% mountains

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A documentary story about the road through mountainous Kyrgyzstan: from Nikolay Przhevalsky to modern Karakol, a visit to an abandoned village near Kumtor, an exploration of the Jety-Oguz gorge with Yeltsin Peak, Lake Issyk-Kul and panoramas of Tian Shan at an altitude of 3800 meters.

Duration
40 min 43 s
Start
Jety-Oguz: "Broken Heart" and "Seven Bulls"
End
Aksay Valley – Border Territory
Stops
15
Channel author
Нелли Фоменко

Timestamps and places

  1. — Ысык-Көл облусу, Кыргызстан (Intro)
  2. — Ош шаары, Кыргызстан (The heart of the Tien Shan begins here)
  3. — Tian Shan – Heart of the Mountains (Ghost town of Inylchek. And what does the Chinese have to do with it?)
  4. — Karakol – Key City (Karakol. This is where our journey begins)
  5. — Barskoon Gorge & Waterfalls (Discoverer of Central Asia. Nikolay Przhevalsky)
  6. — Jety-Oguz: "Broken Heart" and "Seven Bulls"
  7. — Inylchek – Ghost Town (Tourism comes to Kyrgyzstan)
  8. — Yeltsin Peak
  9. — Jety-Oguz – Broken Heart & Seven Bulls (And then where?)
  10. — Kumtor – Central Asia's Largest Gold Mine (What Kyrgyzstan lives on)
  11. — Issyk-Kul – Historic Refuge Lake (Barskoon Gorge and its waterfalls)
  12. — Skazka Canyon – Martian Landscapes (Gold of discord. History of the Kyrgyz Kumtor Mine)
  13. — Aksay Valley – Border Territory (The Arabel Plateau is a high-altitude valley among glaciers)
  14. — How did Kyrgyzstan appear? And what does Issyk-Kul have to do with it?
  15. — Skazka Canyon. Martian landscapes on the south coast
  16. — Aksai Valley. Border areas
  17. — Lake Kel-Suu: A Hidden Alpine Wonder
  18. — Did my car withstand Kyrgyzstan?
  19. — Osh: a city on the Silk Road. Then and now
  20. — China. Too big a brother
  21. — Road: inland and to the border with China
  22. — Development of railway infrastructure
  23. — Hydroelectric Power Plants: Energy Source in Kyrgyzstan
  24. — Pamir Mountains
  25. — What I understood about Kyrgyzstan
  26. — Lenin Peak: 7,134 meters
  27. — Tulpar-Kul Lake
  28. — The most beautiful starry sky

Route on the map

Kyrgyzstan: A Country Where 90% Are Mountains | 3000 km by car

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