Unexpected Bishkek In the evening in the vicinity of the main square. #kyrgyzsta

Travel Fund https://www.donationalerts.com/r/strangedude Subscribe! https://tinyurl.com/hfd28jjy Become a sponsor! https://boosty.to/skurpulez Zen https://dzen.ru/id/5c96746f90aaef00b30e4c84 Salemetsiz be! I'm a Strange Man. Random Bishkek In the evening in the vicinity of the main square. #kyrgyzstan #vanlife #bishkek I came to Bishkek by chance. I wasn’t planning on going there on this trip, but I had to go. Well, at least I got my work done and saw the very center of the city. Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan Bishkek; formerly Pishpek, Frunze) is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan, a city of republican significance, the administrative center of the Chui region. The main transport hub, industrial and administrative center of the country. The modern cultural, political and economic center of the republic. Bishkek was founded in 1878 as a village on the site of the former Kokand fortress Bishkek, which in 1925, at a funeral meeting dedicated to the memory of the deceased fellow countryman M.V. Frunze, a spontaneous meeting of all city residents, was renamed Frunzegrad, in April 1926 by the leadership country in Moscow, the name was corrected to the city of Frunze, in memory of the Soviet party and military leader Mikhail Frunze. Since the Kyrgyz language does not have the sound “f” and a combination of consonants at the beginning of a word is unacceptable, the local residents pronounced this name as “Purunze”. After the collapse of the USSR and Kyrgyzstan gained independence, the question arose of renaming the capital. It turned out that the etymology of the original name “Pishpek” is unknown; The closest thing to this name was the Kyrgyz word “bishkek” - “a whorl with which kumys is shaken.” It is not known how this economic affiliation could be connected with the name of the fortress, but in 1991 Bishkek was adopted as the new name of the capital. The official website of the Bishkek mayor's office provides the fo