Category Archives: Bishkek

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  Soviet Monuments – Part 1

  Posted on November 24, 2014 by noflytri in Bishkek, Bulgaria, Germany, History, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Photoblog, Uzbekistan.

  I’ve taken a lot of photos on this trip so far, (you may have noticed the ones on trains for example…) and one of the things I have been keen to do is to take photos of similar things in different parts of the world, as I thought that way I could then group them […]

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• Independence Day – Kyrgyz Style

  Posted on September 12, 2014 by noflytri in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

  On 31st August, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic declared independence from a collapsing Soviet Union and one of the worlds most difficult to spell countries was born. Kyrgyzstan. As a result each year the day is celebrated as Independence Day, with the added twist that as it happens on 31st […]

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