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Osh market

At the Osh market, you can find everything that may be necessary for life: traditional and trendy clothes, food of all kinds such as dried fruits or spices, furniture, souvenirs, the essentials to constitute a dowry ... It is also the place where we buy the essential things for children so that they can go to school. The market is open every day except Monday.  

Central mosque

The Central Mosque is the largest mosque in Central Asia and Kyrgyzstan. It opened on September 2, 2018. Likewise it located along Avenue Zhibek Zholy (Silk Road). 

Furthermore it was built in the style of Ottoman architecture.  The area of the covered part of the mosque is 7.5 thousand square meters.  Inside, the mosque can simultaneously pray up to 6 thousand people. Taking into account that in the courtyard of the mosque can still pray 20 thousand people.

Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts named after Gapar Aitiev

The art gallery was opened on January 1, 1935. The basis of the museum's collection was 72 works of Russian artists from the Tretyakov State Gallery, personally selected by the founder of the museum, the founder of Kyrgyz painting, S. A. Chuikov. To date, the museum's collection has about 18,000 works.

The main section of the museum is the collection of Kyrgyz visual and decorative arts.

Victory Monument

The memorial is dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the victory of Soviet troops over the fascists. It was erected in 1985 on Victory Square.
The memorial is externally an arch consisting of three curved arched lines. The central image of the composition is a woman mother who carefully holds the cup in her hands and looks into the distance, waiting for the return from the battlefield of her spouse and children.

Uzgen

Uzgen is a large village on the main road between Jalal Abad and Osh. The modern city of Uzgen is located on the territory of ancient site. Ancient settlement of Uzgen is rich of monuments of settled and nomadic people, dated in a wide chronological range. It belongs to a zone of early contacts on the Silk Road, being the most eastern city centre of Davan, as the city of Ju-chen known on Chinese sources is traditionally localised here in a context of military expeditions of 104-99 BC. Citadel and Shakhristans have been preserved relatively.

Naryn city

Blocked in the Central Tien Shan, the town was built during soviet times. If the town has no charm, the landscape is just unbelievable. Red cliffs are surrounding the main city of the Naryn's Oblast.

Toktogul

The town of Toktogul is located in the district of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, along the dam Toktogul. The Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, is 280 km north and Osh, the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan, 400km south. Located in west of the chain of the Tian Shan, the Toktogul valley has a long history. Its location along the river Naryn and surrounded by mountains allowed to easily defend against attacks and withstand natural disasters. With its abundant nature, the 7-4 centuries BC, the valley was home on his land Scythian warrior tribes.

Osh

Osh, the second largest city of the Kyrgyz republic, is one of the oldest settlements of Central Asia. It is located in southwestern Kyrgyzstan near the Uzbekistan border in the eastern section of the Fergana Valley. This one of the Central Asia's most interesting cities because of its long history, dating back as least to the 5th century BC - its position as an important crossroads for Silk Road trade and its huge market. For centuries it was a major silk-production center, strategically situated on a trade route to India.

Kyzyl-Kiya

Kyzyl-Kiya is a city of the Oblast of Batken founded in 1898 by the armies of the tsar for the exploitation of coal, it takes the status of city in 1938. The name means "Red Road" referring to the color of the mountains relatives. Its population is over 50,000 inhabitants. It is 150 km from Batken and 86 km from Osh. The city has no particular attraction but is located at the entrance of a long valley called Isfayram which leads to the peaks of Petit Alay.

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