It is no secret that the "royal" provinces and the fields were on average much larger and more complicated by the most detailed regions of the USSR. In the twentieth century, many in the twentieth century were divided into 2-3 parts, but the unconditional leader here is the Fergana region, which gave rise to 7 regions: in Uzbekistan - Fergana, Andijan, Namangan regions, in Tajikistan - Gorno-Badakhshan autonomy and partly Sughd region, in Kyrgyzstan - Jalal Abad, Osh and Batken regions. The latter appeared in 1999 at the extreme south-west of the country from three districts of the Osh region, and the center of her became the district Kislak Batken, for this occasion elevated to the city. Now it is the smallest (15 thousand inhabitants) and the youngest regional center of the entire post-Soviet space.

Well, the Batken region is an extremely strange region with insane patterns of transparent borders and several enclaves of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, as shown by Warm.

The post-Soviet Fergana would not be the post-Soviet Fergana, if even a tiny Isfari valley did not cut the border in half. Batken is kilometers in 20 from, there is a very active movement between them and there is even a full-fledged gearbox - although without exception (or rather, with one exception - on) all the Kyrgyz-Tajik borders that I have seen before, I have absolutely transparent - you don't want to go , Only on behalf of the penis if the documents are verified! But nevertheless, the border crossing here is quite a lively:

Very near the Turkestan ridge, and in the ice and the dawn rays, is there a peak whether rocky (5621m), the highest point is Gissaro-Alaya? Remember these mountains, because it was in them a Batken region born as an administrative unit.

The frame above is removed on the way back, and we went to Kyrgyzstan in the evening. Almost immediately abroad - of course, manas! In Kyrgyz, who never had a hereditary nobility, who did not build cities and did not create empires, in the center of identity are not monarchs and commander, but the heroes of the epic, even in their first visit to Kyrgyzstan near.

Manas himself, and maybe his son of a seventh or grandson of a seating - on horseback, and as I understand it is a copy of the monument in Bishkek, open in 1980. Below - the other heroes of this very long poem in the world, formerly and the chronicles of the Kyrgyz resettlement with Altai on Tian-Shan, and the sacred legend of the Kyrgyz paganism, which turned into "People's Islam". The legend, not by Scripture, because despite the graceful volume, until the twentieth century "manas" was extremely oral:

The road has a stop in the form of a yurt. Kyrgyz diligently emphasize their essence of former nomads in opposition to the agricultural history of Tajiks and Uzbeks:

Already completely in the floor, we drove into Batken, which seemed small and ordinary. Two cheapest hotels found themselves on a quiet street behind the Central Park, and one of them, larger "Altyn-Ordo" (" Golden Horde"Other Optional!) It was clearly recently called the" October "or" Jubilee ", and the second has occupied a couple of rooms, which we had to go long and with obstacles to the homestead of the owners, school and something similar to the abandoned factory. There is in Batken And other hotels, but I wanted to save, and we chose "Altyn-ORDO" as a smaller of two angry, having fallen in her shapper lobby, dark corridors and stale rooms straight into the plots of the unfortunate travel engineer in the 1970s ...

Although the chandelier in the room is very beautiful:

At night, drummed rain. In the store, a grandiose drunk Kyrgyz, appearance and strength similar to the clay golem closed to me, firmly took me by the hand and began to talk about what we, Russian, wonderful, and how he liked to ride us. I neatly threw the topic, the story of which was demanded by the active gesture, thus released the wrist from his stone hand, and retired at the hotel. And the morning in Batken turned out to be a gloomy, and snow fell in the mountains over the city overnight. I have not yet knew that, and in the following days See Central Asia cold and rainy.

Opposite the gate of the hotel, behind which, in addition to the main building, stood and closed for winter tea yurts, begins a small park, brought by foliage. And the first thing we saw in the park was the monument to the heroes of Batken events - a small war, which unfolded in the surrounding mountains at the turn of the Millennium. Batken is located very remarkable: it is not far away from the capitals (the day of the path from Osh, two days from Bishkek), but between Uzbek and Tajik. Namangan in the 1990s became the stronghold of Vahabism, but the Criminal Procedure "Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan" was defeated in his homeland for this day, found refuge in the Taliban Afghanistan and covered civil War Tajikistan. There, the main stronghold of Islamists was like Kararategin, from Batken, lying literally on the other side of the Turkestan ridge (where there is even the Kyrgyz village of Jerggetal), and the Uzbek Islamists and dispelled in the Karategin villages and dissipate the "hot phase". Their hopes for the continuation of the war were melted every year, the support of dreaming only about the world of the population was inexorably lost, in general, it became more and more clearly, that here Islamists sooner or later do not turn so much. And here, on July 30, 1999, the mountain village of Zardala in the upper reaches of the River Savy in the polustea kilometers southeast Batken was announced by the company from a pair of dozens armed to the teeth of Barmaleev. They were not offended by the local, but only went to them to buy food, but soon Kyrgyz intelligence became clear, which is higher in the mountains, in the abandoned camp of the geological party Zhyuu-Suu, the trail to which was too narrow even for a horse, a whole axis nest was formed. Militants all arrived and arrived, by the end of August there were already more than a thousand there, they kept hostages, and going down to the plain, captured the village after Sel. Their requirement was to provide a corridor to Uzbekistan, to his native Namangan, but even when looking at the card, it would be clear that such a corridor would cut out more Western regions from Kyrgyz and turned them into the republic of field commanders. Well, Jihad was more reason to mobilize militants - true reason Invasion Many analysts called drug trafficking and an attempt to create his transshipment point, unscakening legal governments.

8a. Kyrgyz soldier.

The Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan managed for the post-Soviet decade, for a short time forgotten times, especially since the Kyrgyz army could not openly copefully, and helicopters and bombers of Uzbekistan Air Force joined the case (on August 15, by mistake, bombed across several villages in Tajikistan happiness without human victims). Kang and Khoja-Achkan became the epicenter of the battles - villages from the exit from the Savsky Gorge, descending into populated by Tajiks, the Svky Anclav of Uzbekistan, perhaps the first target of the militants. By the end of September, the Islamists stopped resistance, and coating with them the Kyrgyz cattle (first of all yaks) left. The end of the Batken War can be considered on November 4, 1999, when the hostages taken by the militants and adopted Jerghetal returned to Kyrgyzstan. Briefly the course of Batken events is set out in Wikipedia, in detail - in the Central Asian Tolstaya magazine (there is also such!), And, often quite impressive.

8a. Captive militants.

But it was not the end: on August 11, 2000, the militants appeared again in the same mountains, at the sneeze and Khoja-Achkan, and over the subsequent weeks several dozen times they tried unsuccessfully to break into Kyrgyzstan. This time, both sides were fought much more professional ... and internationally, Kyrgyzstan provided assistance to Russia and Kazakhstan, for the spins of militants looming the shadow of Osama Bin Laden, and the war itself was only part of the series of Islamist raids on Uzbekistan from Tajikistan and Afghanistan. In Afghanistan and left the surviving militants, there, apparently, they were rejected in the 21st century in battles with the Americans and the Northern Alliance. It is also not clear why, but about Batken-2 is written literally an order of magnitude less than about Batkene-1, from the information More Pair of the lines in the media I found except text in the attached Vordovsky file. In general, two Batken wars of 1999-2000 for Kyrgyzstan are surprisingly similar to two Chechen wars For Russia, only in incomparably less Maschatbe: the second was more successful, clearer to the population, but at the same time the bloody - on the monument 48 names from the dates of life, and 28 of them ends in 2000. All these are citizens of Kyrgyzstan, but two of them are with Russian names: in 1999, Lieutenant Vladimir Golubev killed, in 2000 - Starley R. N. Zayarkov, the full name of which I could not find out. They are on the right plate, and on the left - 15 immigrants from the Batken region who died in the 1980s in Afghanistan, in the first of the unfinished chain of interrelated Central Asian wars ...

Before Batken, the war did not reach the war, but immediately after the first events, October 13, 1999, in the most distant and complex corner of Kyrgyzstan, apparently for more detailed controls, the Batken region was created. Judge for yourself: from the capital of $ 2 days; From the semi-million population of the region only 74% of Kyrgyz, another 14% are Uzbeks, and 7% are not very characteristic of other Kyrgyz regions of Tajik; 3/4 of the Batzeny border - state, and considerable part of them are not protected, and there are 6 enclaves (2 Tajikistan and 4 Uzbekistan) on its territory) with a total population for a hundred thousand people. With all the volume, the region consists of only 3 districts, and in it 4 cities - in the west trading Isfana (not to be confused with Isfar!) And the Shakhtar Sulukta (both of 27 thousand inhabitants), in the east - Kyzyl-Keia (44 thousand inhabitants ), former far from the satellite satellite of the Uzbek Fergana. Well, Batken, known as Kislak since 1934 and only 2000 by the city, although it is located in the middle, and is still the smallest city in the area. But all with it - for example, the Batken Regional Music and Drama Theater on the other side of the park, obviously converted from the district DC. Batken - probably the smallest in the former USSR city with the theater:

On the contrary - regional administration. Pay attention to Ilyich - the degree of decommunization of the Central Asian countries is inversely proportional to their democraticness:

On the other side of the administration - busts of the Kyrgyz revolutionaries, looking like new:

Even the park of non-communal sculptures did not even forget to:

Details of the house next door. Batken looks not a kishlak, but still a small town-district center - but only with the "regional" pathos.

Here is the central square with some kind of incomprehensible mesh design, crowned a small building - in fact it is just a store, and the scoreboard in the "web" is likely the watch, in free and pofigistic Kyrgyzstan, long ago stopped:

Where how interesting is the figure of Erkindik - the Kyrgyz Statue of Liberty. Such stood in 2003-11, but after the revolution of 2010, someone decided that it was all not on science - tundyuk, that is, the sacred for the nomad of the dome of the yurt, it is impossible to keep women, and you can not be left-handed! And on whether they say that on the main square of the country such a sculpture - Kyrgyzstan has all the problems! As a result, Bishkek Erkindik was dismantled, and I thought that they were evicted to Batken, but no - the young regional center just decided to keep up with the capital at some point, and now the capital original was demolished, and a copy of the outstand was left:

From this area, in fact, just rings, the endless bazaar begins. On the one hand - five-story buildings (remained behind the scenes) and the old buildings of the collective farm market:

In Batken, we wandered, hoping to find at least one bank in which I could make money from the card - in Uzbekistan, where we had to return, it was almost impossible to do it, and cash until the end of the trip remained in the edge. We did not succeed in this and here, that is, the lack of money was added to the cold.
That's just a little Batken plots - whether Kyrgyz men in their unchanging felt caps:

"Moskvich" unfamiliar model of me, which brought himself to Aroba:

On Razzakov Street, turning onto the road to Isfar - the Stern Cinema "October", which, in case of invasion of terrorists, could become a city donjon:

And the Memorial of another war, to this day, more large-scale and well-groomed:

House with a beautiful facade decor on the same street, where our hotel is:

Gate of gymnasium, on the backyards of which the second hotel, in which we did not want to spend the night:

Batken is clearly their special relationship with Japan. But jokes jokes, and the first Batken war was accompanied by the seizure of 4 Japanese geologists in the hostage, as a result, found alive and healthy in Jerguetale.

And on the area of \u200b\u200bthe rings with Erkindika, the street, leading from the rings with Erkindika to the south, we met a toastive eagle:

Next to him there was a pretty store with an even more sympathetic saleswoman - a thin-haired Russian girl of an intelligent species, alas, who did not want to take pictures. In the basement of the store there was a decent cafe with the European interior, Asian cuisine, American cartoons on the screen and quotes from Muslim Hadiths on the walls and columns. Other catering establishments in Batken are terrible, the level "choose can be", and this is very unexpected in Kyrgyzstan, where they are fed at actually best of the Central Asian countries. Most of all, we finished the fact that even the principle "is good where there is a lot of local", in Batken, it turned out to be useless - the locals are so accustomed that in the muddy room they are given a small rubbish, that it turned out to be a decent cafe, on the contrary, almost empty.

Carpets with specifically Kyrgyz patterns:

And the rams right from the bodies - Meat "in Live form":

The gate seems to be the local stadium almost on the road from the city ... For the former Kislak-district center, Batken is not so sad at all:

We were going to catch the car to Chon-Gara, another enclave, but only these gates I realized that we were not going on that way, south, but it was necessary to east. But Batken is so small that with one outskirts on another we easily come on foot along the powerful and very picturesque aryka with an abundance of measuringly spinning chigires:

And this seems to be not chigir (the latter overflow water from large aryks into the small above), and the generator. Left behind trees, no more - Batken International Airport! What flies from it, except for government and military delegations, do not assume.

And we again came to the bazaar, loosened, it seems to the half-town:

And there was a surprising cemetery there, where the crosses are adjacent to the mausoleums against the background of a high minaret:

The mosque itself is very impressive:

And the driving in front of it reminds that the locals are very religious, although in fact Kirgizam is not very different:

And in general, in the atmosphere of Batken, there is the same anxiety that in Garma, or is another point of the tension of Central Asia with not too obvious, but feeling somewhere in the corner of the consciousness of the expectation of Batken-3.

In the Batken region I almost did not go, although it is interesting not only by the enclaves. Here is the lowest point of Kyrgyzstan (401 meters above sea level), but here there are many picturesque rocks in the foothills of the Turkestan and Alai ridges and the highlands, called the climbers of the Kyrgyz pathognith. In these mountains, there are antiquities like a saxual fortress or several pre-revolutionary mosques, and a picturesque international (!) Sulukta-proletarsk narrow-solenk, leading on the most difficult in the post-Soviet narrow scenes profiles practically in Khujand (but it's not worth riding it - there is no passage there, but there is no Checks are!). The local mountains themselves are fabatively rich in all sorts of magazines and ores whose diversity is not inferior to the chibamas (and then they are superior to them), but the main mineral inrela - mercury of the Heydarkan field, in the reserves of which Kyrgyzstan ranks second in the world after Spain, and on extraction - second After China.

The scenery of the neighborhood of Batken is very recognizable - the fertile Isfari Valley, from which the lonely sharp mountains are sticking out on the Kyrgyz side. The main attraction of Batken himself is considered to be Aigul - a very beautiful "lunar flower" (this name is translated), the local endemix is \u200b\u200btranslated, in the spring of the South-east of the city in the spring.

And this is no longer a Batken region, and Sogdian - kilometers at 20 from Batken Road again crosses Tajikistan, actually the neutral zone in the deserted steppe east of the last Tajik village of Laccon. And this is certainly the last frame from Tajikistan in such a long Central Asian series ...

Long - but (I myself am not really believe) is still not infinite. The next part will be the last, and it will be discussed about Anklav Chon-Gara as apotheosis of "border disorders" of Fergana.

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Chon-Gara. Uzbek enclave in Kyrgyzstan.

On the Interactive Batken Card page from the satellite. Read more on. Below satellite images and real-time search Google Maps, photos of the city and the Batken region in Kyrgyzstan, coordinates

Satellite map of Batken - Kyrgyzstan

We observe on the Satellite map of Batken (Batken), as it is located buildings on the streets of Fayzullayev and Kosmuratov. Looking at the area of \u200b\u200bthe territory of the area, the routes and highways, squares and banks, stations and train stations, addressing the address.

Presented here in the online city map of Batken from the satellite contains pictures of buildings and photos of houses from space. You can find out where there are st. Volakova and Aitmatov. Using the search for the Google Maps service, you will find the desired address in the city and its view from Cosmos. We advise you to change the scale of the +/- schema and move the image center to the desired side.

Squares and shops, roads and borders, buildings and houses, view of Salikhov Street. On the detailed information page and photos of all terrain facilities, in order to show the necessary home on the map of the city and the Batken region in Kyrgyzstan.

A detailed satellite map of Batken (hybrid) and the district is provided by the Google Maps service.

Coordinates - 40.0608,70.82

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