Karakol

Karakol is a city of the Kyrgyzstan, located in the area of Yssik Koul, with the point is lake of the same name. Surrounded of the mountains of Tian Shan, it is the last agglomeration of importance before the master key of Karkara which makes border with Kazakhstan on the one hand, and the slopes of the Khan-Tengri and the Pic Pobeby which mark the border of China on the other hand.

Built in an area of old settlement, carrying the traces of several medieval villages, of which some absorbed, and who would have accommodated Christian monasteries in antiquity or the Early middle ages, the current city, to Russian invoice, goes back from the 19th century. Its construction makes following the decision colonize the basin of Isyk Koul taken by the Tsar, after the forwardings of recognition carried out by the officer and exploring Russian Przhevalsky. It thus was initially populated Russian peasants.

The settlement Kirgiz of the city results from the collectivization of the grounds and the sedentarisation of the nomads in the Thirties, but the Russian population remains represented well. Karakol also counts a strong community Doungane.

Consequently, the two architectural buildings worthy of interest in the city, entirely built out of wood, are the orthodoxe Church and the mosque-pagoda, built by rich person representatives of the community doungane.

Immediately with the access of the city valleys steepsided driving with the high pastures of summer open, over which the yurts of the shepherds at the beginning of transhumance are. Place of market of food and cattle, Karakol is also the seat of the regional administrations and a small university. Today the city partly saw its proximity with the gold mine of Kumtor, which employs many workmen locally.

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