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An amazing place on the shore of Issyk Kul. Przhevalsk pier. #kyrgyzstan #issykkul #vanlife
Pristan-Przhevalsk is an urban-type settlement in Kyrgyzstan. Subordinate to the administration of the city of Karakol, Issyk-Kul region. Located 12 km northwest of Karakol on the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, at the confluence of the Karakol River into the lake.
Population: 2917 inhabitants.
It received the status of an urban settlement in 1944 in connection with the transfer in 1942 of part of the evacuated plant No. 182 from Makhachkala to this place. The main production part of the plant was located in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, and received the name: Kirov Machine-Building Plant; a testing base for this plant was created in the village of Pristan-Przhevalsk. In Soviet times, the Kirov Machine-Building Plant was one of the leading diesel and torpedo manufacturing plants in the USSR.
Currently, the plant is called "Ulan" and produces industrial equipment.
20 km to the west, near the village of Koisary (Pokrovka), there is a Russian naval testing base for testing torpedo and mine weapons.
Near Pristan-Przhevalskaya there is a grave and memorial complex of the famous Russian traveler, Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky.
Here, not far from the grave of N.M. Przhevalsky, the famous Soviet film actor of the 30s, Ivan Khrisanfovich Novoseltsev, was buried. who died here during the filming of V. Brown’s film “The Missing.”
In pre-revolutionary times, this place was the site of a holiday village for wealthy residents of the city of Karakol.
The village is connected by highways: with the city of Karakol (formerly Przhevalsk), the village of Mikhailovka and the village of Lipenka.
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