30th SEPT 2018
DUSHANBE TO BISHKEK (KYRGYZSTAN) BY FLIGHT
A few photos I took from Aircraft shows beautiful mountainous Kyrgyzstan below, covered by white clouds.
When Kirgiz (Kyrgyz) Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic established in 1926, Pishpek became its capital and was renamed Frunze after the revolutionary and Red Army leader Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze, who had been born there in 1885. It developed rapidly into a modern city. In 1991 it was renamed Bishkek. Bishkek is the capital of Kyrgyz Republic and administrative center of the Chui region. It is situated in the central part of the Chui Valley at the foot of the Kyrgyz range of the Ala-Too Mountains. While this range stretches up to maximum height of nearly 16,000 feet (higher than the Canadian Rockies), Bishkek sits at a relatively moderate altitude of about 2600 feet. To the north are the Jalanash hills in Kazakhstan, which protect the city from extreme summer and winter temperatures. To the south are the Tien Shan Mountains. There are two rivers that flow through the city – the Alamedin and the Ala-Archa, both tributaries of the River Chu.
