The territory of Central Asia, which consists of vast expanses of steppe-land, desert and semi-desert with fine seasonal pastures, was...

Mongol and Turkish Empires have left distinctive architectural traces which shed a new light on the development of urban space in this...

The mention of Central Asian foodways usually conjures up competing images of nomadic and sedentary lifestyles. In one, the roving...

Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice in which a man abducts the woman he wishes to...

Wise people say that the City of Osh existed before the birth of the prophet Sueiman. They also say that the first man on earth predicted...

80 km from the village of At-Bashi and 18 km from the Torugart road, in a picturesque gorge of Kara-Koyum, there are the ruins of...

People say: “Without legends, there is no past , without the past there is no present”. Chinghiz Aitmatov wrote: "People love and...

Issyk-Kul is an endorheic lake in the northern Tian Shan Mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan. It is the tenth largest lake in the world by...

A traditional yurt (from the Turkic languages) is a portable, round tent covered dwelling with skins or felt and used by nomads in the...

Short historical overview. In 1763 Czarina Catherina II issued a manifest which invited foreigners to settle in Russia. They obtained a...

Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art....

Festivals of Central Asia are the reflection of the rich history of nomadic customs and traditions of the people. Birds of prey festival,...

Summer tourism in Central Asia is constantly growing. In summertime countries of the region are ready to offer multiple resort,...

Pioneering global biodiversity conservation initiative to increase our knowledge on endangered species in Central Asia.