The most limited definition was the official one of the Soviet Union, which defined Middle Asia as consisting solely of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

The Soviet Army retained horse cavalry divisions until 1955, and even at the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was an independent horse mounted cavalry squadron in Kyrgyzstan.

At the same time, the area of present Kyrgyzstan was an important link in the Silk Road, as attested by several Nestorian gravestones.

In the early 19th century, the territory of Kyrgyzstan came under the control of the Khanate of Kokand, but the territory was occupied and formally annexed by the Russian Empire in 1876.

As classical Russian ethnic groups were injected into the Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the urbanization process began and was mainly authored by the Russian communities placed within the Soviet Republic, mostly by policies created by the communist party.

The republic's press was permitted to adopt a more liberal stance and to establish a new publication, Literaturny Kyrgyzstan, by the Union of Writers.

On August 19, 1991, when the State Emergency Committee assumed power in Moscow, there was an attempt to depose Akayev in Kyrgyzstan.

A new constitution was passed by the parliament in May 1993 and the Republic of Kyrgyzstan was renamed the Kyrgyz Republic.

In 2005, following disputed results of the 2005 parliamentary elections, Kyrgyzstan was thrown into a state of political turmoil, with different parties claiming that they were the legitimate government.

A new government was formed under opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva, while Bakiyev remained for several days in southern Kyrgyzstan, before fleeing to Belarus, where he was given asylum by President Lukashenko.

Following independence, Kyrgyzstan was progressive in carrying out market reforms, such as an improved regulatory system and land reform.

While Kyrgyzstan was initially determined to stay in the ruble zone, the stringent conditions set forth by the Russian Government prompted Kyrgyzstan to introduce its own currency, the som, in May 1993.

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan's hostility toward Kyrgyzstan was short-lived, and the three nations signed an agreement in January 1994 creating an economic union.

In 2003, global per capita wheat consumption was 67 kg, with the highest per capita consumption ( 239 kg ) found in Kyrgyzstan.

Dubček was born in Uhrovec, Czechoslovakia ( Slovakia ), and raised in the Kyrgyz SSR of the Soviet Union ( now Kyrgyzstan ) as a member of the Esperantist and Idist industrial cooperative Interhelpo.

The oldest inscription was found near the Issyk river in Kyrgyzstan.

When Kyrgyzstan became independent following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, there was a popular idea among some Kyrgyz people to make transition to the Latin alphabet ( taking in mind a version closer to the Turkish alphabet, not the original alphabet of 1928 – 1940 ), but the plan was never implemented.

In the years immediately following independence, another change of alphabet was discussed, but the issue does not seem to generate the same passions in Kyrgyzstan that it does in other former Soviet republics, perhaps because the Kyrgyz Cyrillic alphabet is relatively simple and is particularly well-suited to the language.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation ( SCO ) is an intergovernmental organization which was founded on June 14, 2001 by the leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

It was revealed in the United States diplomatic cables leak that the Duke had been reported on by Tatiana Gfoeller, the United States Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, discussing bribery in Kyrgystan and the investigation into the Al-Yamamah arms deal.

The first written records of a civilization in the area occupied by Kyrgyzstan appear in Chinese chronicles beginning about 2000 B. C.

The first Turks to form a state in the territory of Central Asia ( including Kyrgyzstan ) were Göktürks or Kök-Türks.

On 1 May 1990 the opposition groups held their first big demonstration in Frunze in competition with the officially sanctioned May Day celebrations, and on 25 – 26 May 1990 the opposition groups formed the Kyrgyzstan Democratic Movement as a bloc of several anti-Communist political parties, movements and nongovernment organizations.

** Cold War: The Supreme Soviet of Kyrgyzstan chooses Askar Akayev as the republic's first president.

The first part is < tt > KG </ tt >, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Kyrgyzstan.

The first nature reserve in Kyrgyzstan, Issyk Kul State Reserve was established in 1948 to protect unique nature landscapes and water-fowl birds at Issyk Kul.

In 1988 Kropp traveled to climb his first major peak, Pik Lenina, 7134 meters high, located in Tajikistan / Kyrgyzstan.

Later that year the IMU conducted its first verifiable operations, with an incursion into the Batken region of southern Kyrgyzstan – a region populated mainly by ethnic Uzbeks, and lying between Tavildara in Tajikistan and the Fergana Valley in Uzbekistan.

The IMCA plans to first establish a theocracy in Uzbekistan, before spilling into Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

He was also formally stripped of the title of " first president of Kyrgyzstan ".

He was the first ethnic Russian Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan since independence.

At first it was ruled by a military administration, later in 1867 it became the center of an Uyezd occupying nearly all of the territory of the modern Zhambyl Province of Kazakhstan and Talas Province of Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyzstan, meanwhile, has never seriously considered adopting the Latin alphabet-although the idea had been mooted among some politicians in the first few years of independence.

Armenia, Belarus, The Czech Republic, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Slovakia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan were represented for the first time at a Summer Games.

Circulation coins were first introduced in January 2008, making Kyrgyzstan second to last of the former Soviet republics to issue them.

The first stage was retracing his steps on a five-day train journey to Alma Ata ; the train ran via Orenburg and the Aral Sea, then parallel to the Syr Darya and the mountains of Kirghizia ( Kyrgyzstan ).

By 1992, the now independent Kyrgyzstan was led by Askar Akayev, who chose her to be both Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, positions she held until later that year when she became her country's first ambassador to the USA and Canada.

# The first group, of some 1000 people, originally from Turpan in Xinjiang, led by Ma Daren ( 马大人 ), also known as Ma Da-lao-ye ( 马大老爷 ), reached Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan.

Nasirdin Isanov () ( 7 November 1943 – 29 November 1991 ) served as the first Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan from 30 August 1991 to 29 November 1991, when he died in a car crash.

The first, at N 40. 71 E 72. 89, is divided by a Soviet-era border between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

The first ascent of the peak was made in 1931 by Mikhail Pogrebetsky's Ukrainian team by a route from the south ( Kyrgyzstan side ), then along the west ridge.

He was first elected in 1995 as a member of the legislative assembly, after he helped set up the Erkin Kyrgyzstan Progressive Democratic Party political party.

Kyrgyzstan competed in the Summer Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

In 1992, after Kyrgyzstan became independent, she founded the country's first independent newspaper, Respublika (" Republic ") and as editor-in-chief she struggled to promote freedom of the press and the concept of an open society.