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  Naryn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is located at 41°26′N 76°0′E, situated on both banks of the Naryn River, one of the main head waters of the Syr Darya, which cuts a picturesque gorge through the town.
The population of Naryn oblast is 98% Kyrgyz, discounting the Russian army presence along the border.
From Naryn, the main road (one of the branches of the ancient Silk Road) through the sparsely settled, central Kyrgyz highlands leads to Torugart Pass and China.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naryn   (303 words)

  
 University of Central Asia - Campuses & Facilities
UCA is constructing three campuses in Tekeli, Kazakhstan; Naryn, the Kyrgyz Republic; and Khorog, Tajikistan; creating one of Central Asia’s largest and most ambitious construction projects with the expertise of internationally-renown architects and designers.
Naryn province or oblast is at the geographical heart of the Tien-Shan mountain range and of Kyrgyzstan, sharing borders with four of the nation’s six other provinces.
Its capital, Naryn, is four hours by car from the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek and an equal distance from Kashgar in the People’s Republic of China.
www.ucentralasia.org /campus.htm   (578 words)

  
 FANTASIA -> Kyrgyzstan -> Regions -> Naryn region
To the southeast of Bishkek, among the Tian Shan Mountains, in the highlands of Kyrgyzstan lies the province of Naryn.
Bordering China in the south, Naryn region being the largest in Kyrgyzstan and probably the economically poorest part of the country.
Naryn region is not a small place - let's say it is larger than Switzerland.
www.fantasticasia.net /?p=114   (266 words)

  
 Tash Rabat, 2004-06-24 - Marjolein's Travel Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Naryn valley is very wide here and fertile; mountains on each side are of sandstone and thick packs of sediment, with colors ranging from a pale sandy to dark red.
Naryn is a regional center, and the only decent-sized town in a large area.
Soon after the pass, we turn into another wide river valley, first with a lot of agriculture supporting Naryn (we see a lot of fields with bright pink flowers again, which I think must be buckwheat) but later turning into sparse meadows where nomads herd their flocks.
blog.iamback.com /day/2004-06-24   (585 words)

  
 Anaemia in women high due to poverty, poor diet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
NARYN, 15 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - Health officials in the central Kyrgyz province of Naryn say that the high prevalence of anaemia among women of child-bearing age in the area could result in a weakening of the national gene pool, citing poverty as the main cause of the problem.
Aychurok Isaeva, a doctor at the family health centre in Naryn, the provincial capital, told IRIN that the consequences of anaemia were dramatic.
Naryn province is home to some 270,000 people and the number of women of fertile age in the area is about 56,000, of which an estimated 34,000 suffer anaemia.
www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=44142   (591 words)

  
 CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST
The four village locations identified for this project, two in Naryn in the north-east and two in Osh in the south, are among the poorest in Kyrgyzstan.
With poverty affecting two thirds of their population, the village communities of Ortok and Ak-Muz in Naryn province are two of the poorest villages in country.
Salamalik and Berinchy May village communities in Osh province have somewhat better living conditions and warmer weather, but are still constrained from summer grazing areas due to controversies over land due to the high population density in the region.
www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=3935   (784 words)

  
 Britannicaindia.com: Britannica Browse
(province), western Russia, on the Nara River southwest of the capital.
It lies along the Naryn River at an elevation of 6,725 feet (2,050 m).
(province), southeastern Kyrgyzstan, with an area of 19,700 square miles (51,100 square km).
www.britannicaindia.com /britannica_browse/n/n4.html   (1744 words)

  
 UNICEF - Kyrgyzstan - Communities in remote Kyrgyzstan help students stay in school
NARYN PROVINCE, Kyrgyzstan, 18 August 2006 — The noonday sun scorched Askat, 13, as he used all his strength to finish building a hay pile.
She had been a teacher and was highly respected in her small village in the remote Naryn Province, the most disadvantaged of Kyrgyzstan’s provinces due to its high mountains and harsh climate.
In 2002, UNICEF selected Naryn Province as a pilot area for the Community Management of Education Project.
www.unicef.org /infobycountry/kyrgyzstan_35375.html   (665 words)

  
 Silk Road Tours - Central Asia - Kyrgyzstan - Naryn
To the south of Bishkek, amongst the Tian Shan Mountains, lies the province of Naryn.
This is a territory of wild beauty with alternating white peaks, valleys and gorges and an abundance of wildlife.
The largest lake in Naryn province is Lake Song Kul, set amongst steppe vegetation and home to countless wild geese, ducks and other waterfowl.
www.silkroadandbeyond.co.uk /naryn.html   (214 words)

  
 UN health workers saddle up to reach isolated patients   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
NARYN, 8 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - Earlier this year, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Kyrgyzstan was faced with the problem of how to deliver primary health care to remote communities in the central Naryn province.
Dinara Pikeeva is one of the three local physicians in Emgek Tala village responsible for the health care of families living in the community and outlying settlements.
Twelve of them were given to Naryn, while the rest to Issyk-Kul and Talas provinces," Cholpon Asambaeva, a UNFPA human security trust fund project manager, told IRIN.
www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=44047   (541 words)

  
 Kyrgyzstan - Health
In addition, 246 general and twenty specialized hospitals were in operation; nearly one-third of all hospitals were located in Osh Province (which also had about one-third of the country's total population).
In 1993 Kyrgyzstan suffered increasing cases of hepatitis and gastrointestinal infections, especially in the southern provinces of Osh and Jalal-Abad.
Naryn Province, the coldest and most remote part of the country, has been particularly affected.
countrystudies.us /kyrgyzstan/16.htm   (1065 words)

  
 Kyrgyzstan tour operator
Lying nearly in the middle of the country is the Fergana Valley - a fertile breadbasket area whose boundaries, set by preceding Soviet authorities, are a source of permanent discontent between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
Kyrgyzstan's three major rivers are the Naryn river (also the longest one - 535 kilometres), the Chu River (221 kilometres) and the Chatkal river (205 kilometres long).
The Sary-Chelek Lake is the one whose turquoise blue water cup surrounded with mountain peaks covered with Tien-Shan spruces are depicted in many tourist posters.
www.asia-travel.uz /kyrgyzstan/intro2.html   (397 words)

  
 Schuepp.de - AYAN TV
The streets are deserted, hardly any cars pass by the empty kiosks on the main street leading down from the mountains into Naryn, a city of 40,000 inhabitants in the South-East of the Kyrgyz Republic at an elevation of 2,200 meters.
She studied chemistry in Bishkek, writes poems in Kyrgyz, runs the TV station and is married to Turdakun Saparbaev, the head of the Department for Ecology of the Naryn region.
The flow of information in Naryn cannot keep up with the flow of the Naryn River that originates in the mighty Tien Shan mountains and finds its way through the Ferghana Valley into Uzbekistan where it becomes the Syr Darya and flows on to the deserts of Turkmenistan.
hometown.aol.com /borispapa/ayantv.html   (1205 words)

  
 HORIZON travel Company
Naryn is known as the coldest town in Kyrgyzstan.
In Naryn the Lenin statue is still in the square, in the Lenin street.
Naryn is about the right place for an overnight stop on the Bishkek-Torugart road and it is 175 km from Kyrgyz-Chinese border crossing.
www.horizon.elcat.kg /english/intro.html   (9376 words)

  
 KYRGYZSTAN: Minor earthquake felt in Naryn
ANKARA, 5 Apr 2006 (IRIN) - A minor earthquake measuring three on the Richter scale has struck the northern Kyrgyz province of Naryn, a spokesman for the Kyrgyz emergencies ministry said from the capital, Bishkek, on Wednesday.
The previous one was in the northeastern province of Issyk-Kul.
Kyrgyzstan is located in a seismically active part of Central Asia and according to the Kyrgyz emergencies ministry there were some 30 tremors measuring over 3-4 degrees on the Richter scale in 2005.
newssafety.com /hotspots/countries/kyrgyzstan/irin/kyrgyzstan050406.htm   (393 words)

  
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The model has worked in almost all the 101 villages in Naryn province.
Alcohol abuse, brucellosis, anaemia and high blood pressure are some of the common conditions found in the communities which are caused by poverty.
Naryn is the largest and poorest province in Kyrgyzstan, with a population of more than 270,000 people.
courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/040Compecon/Soviet/Kyrgyz/041129rural.txt   (420 words)

  
 Kyrgyz Demonstrators Block Strategic Highway - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The demonstrators were protesting against the local election commission's decision to bar an opposition candidate from running in the second round of balloting.
Naryn Province Governor Shamshybek Medetbekov addressed the protesters.
I have to meet with the judiciary and local electoral commission in order to clarify for myself what is going on.
www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/03/015f1cbe-b2d0-4c1b-90ed-930de551a40c.html?napage=5   (192 words)

  
 directopedia : Directory : Regional : Asia : Kyrgyzstan
The OSCE found that while the elections failed to comply with commitments to free and fair elections, there were improvements over the 2000 elections, notably the use of indelible ink, transparent ballot boxes, and generally good access by election observers.
On July 10, 2005, Kurmanbek Bakiyev won a Presidential election in a landslide, with 88.9% of the vote and was inaugurated on 14 August in Bishkek.
Kyrgyzstan is divided into seven provinces (singular: oblast (область), plural: oblasttar (областтар)); adminstered by appointed governors.
www.directopedia.org /directory/Regional-Asia/Kyrgyzstan.shtml   (3424 words)

  
 UNICEF - Kirghizistan - Dans des parties reculées du Kirghizistan, des communautés aident les ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
PROVINCE DE NARYN, Kirghizistan, 17 août 2006 - Askat, 13 ans, brûlé par le soleil de la mi-journée, a consacré toutes ses forces à finir d'empiler sa meule de foin.
Elle avait été enseignante et on la respectait beaucoup dans son petit village de la lointaine province de Naryn, la plus déshéritée du Kirghizistan en raison de ses hautes montagnes et de son climat rigoureux.
En juillet, les autorités et les dirigeants locaux se sont réunis pour analyser les résultats obtenus dans la province de Naryn et ils ont entrepris de s'organiser afin d'aider les enfants de leurs villages.
www.unicef.org /french/infobycountry/2580_35375.html   (814 words)

  
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This is what is happening in the photo which was taken in Naryn city, center of Naryn province.
Naryn is a fairly large city in the midst of a mostly empty, cold, remote, and very mountainous region of Kyrgyzstan.
Naryn province is almost 100% Kyrgyz by nationality and thus Kyrgyz traditions are very strong, including religious traditions, which are much more
kingofkingsnj.tripod.com /timrita.html   (845 words)

  
 Pakistan tour. silk road china & pakistan.
A one street border town between Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang Province in China, Naryn was established to guard the Silk Route from Kashgar going westwards.
This route is a beautiful drive, with views of the high mountains of the Karakorams and the distant Pamir Mountain Ranges.
Hunza lies on the ancient trade route to Kashgar in the Chinese province of Sinkiang.
www.asia-planet.com /pakistan/packagetours/silkroad_tour.htm   (1185 words)

  
 UN Volunteers Kyrgyzstan
In Naryn Province, a group of men now work together and invest jointly in cattle-breeding and share their profits.
In Issyk-Kul Province, women and girls are producing the traditional Kyrgyz carpet called “shyrdak”.
A young boy participating in buildung a new school for himself and his community in Osh Province.
www.unv.org.kg /eng/photos.htm   (299 words)

  
 [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
In the Uzgen district of Osh Province, 1,000 protesters take over the district administration in the course of a protest against election fraud.
Naryn Governor Shamshybek Medetbekov, who is briefly detained by protesters, promises a timely review of one candidate's disqualification.
Between 1,000 to 3,000 protesters gather in the Aravan District of Osh Province to voice support for Tursunbai Alimov, the current administrative head of the Aravan District, who is trailing his opponent, Makhammadjan Mamasaidov, by a thin margin.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2005/03/mil-050325-rferl04.htm   (2633 words)

  
 Kyrgyz felt
Tradition was so crucial to Azamat's family that although Azamat showed enormous promise as an artist while still in elementary school, when he was offered a scholarship to an art school in Moscow, they refused him to attend, fearing he would loose his Kyrgyz language and traditions.
Now he works together with craftswomen through the province of Naryn to produce a line of felt wool products that include carpets, slippers, pillows and other accessories.
Felting wool is a central part of Kyrgyz life, the work of women creating "alakeeza", carpets which serve both as floor coverings and beds; "Kemselche", means men's jackets; and the covering of yurts or Urta, their round dwellings.
www.vikinggirlsworkshop.com /id1.html   (246 words)

  
 Kyrgyzstan: Report: Part II: Analytic Section: cont. 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
For example, in a number of districts in Naryn, Osh, Jalal Abad, Issyk Kul provinces there are schools with only 8 to 12 students per form.
In Naryn province, for example, there are only 83 children who regularly get meals in school canteens.
For the first time in the history of this province, a police record was opened up against nine senior form students for occasional consumption of drugs...
www2.unesco.org /wef/countryreports/kyrgyz/rapport_2_2.html   (5416 words)

  
 KYRGYZSTAN: BRIDE KIDNAPPING HAMPERS WOMEN’S EDUCATION PROSPECTS - Agenda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
BISHKEK, 22 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Meerim was a 21-year-old university student in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, when her admirer, an old classmate from the central province of Naryn, abducted her for marriage.
According to some estimates, in the Naryn province alone an estimated 55 percent of all women were abducted against their will and forced into marriage, while only 10 percent of abducted women dared to stand for their rights and leave their abductors.
Meanwhile, a local survey conducted in the southern Kyrgyz province of Jalal-Abad revealed that in every 10 divorces registered, seven were in families founded through bride kidnapping, the Russian-based Ferghana.ru news site reported on 15 February.
www.agenda.org.za /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1191&Itemid=147   (740 words)

  
 Naryn, Schema-Root rss
Melis Eshimkanov, an opposition MP who owns the Agym newspaper was instrumental in mobilizing rural dwellers as well as his supporters from Naryn province.
Motuev seized control of the Kara-Keche coal mine in Naryn Province following the unrest in March 2005 that saw the ouster of then President Askar Akaev.
Popular anger at the abuses of a former Akayev ally led workers to revolt at the Karakeche coalmines in Naryn Province.
schema-root.org /rss/?p=6292   (1273 words)

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