The capital of Kyrgyzstan is Bishkek

The capital of Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek - is the largest city in the republic. It is a special administrative unit.

The capital of Kyrgyzstan is located in the northern part of the republic: in the Chui valley at the foot of the Tien-Shan mountains. The distance from Bishkek to the Kazakhstan border is 25 kilometers.

The capital of Kyrgyzstan dates back to the 7th century. In those days, it was a hill fort called Jule, which means "Blacksmith's Fortress". At the beginning of the XIX century, here appeared the Kokand fortress Pishpek, in which the largest garrison of the Chui valley was deployed. Subsequently, Pishpek was twice conquered by Russian troops. As a result, in 1862 the fortress was destroyed, and two years later a Cossack picket was formed in its place, later it grew into a village, and in 1878 it received the status of a city. In 1925 Pishpek was granted the status of the administrative center of the Kirghiz Autonomy, and a year later it was renamed Frunze. The city received a new name in honor of its famous native Mikhail Frunze, who was a Soviet military commander. Since 1936, Frunze became the capital of the Kirghiz SSR. After the country gained independence from the USSR in 1991, the capital of Kyrgyzstan was renamed into the city of Bishkek.

At the moment there are two versions of the emergence of the modern name of the capital. According to one of them, the city owes its name to the mythical Bishkek-Batyr, who, according to legends and legends, opened here the first large bazaar. Another version claims that the name comes from the consonance of the words Bishkek and Bishkek, which in Kyrgyz means "stick for stirring koumiss".

The main city attractions include museums, the most famous of them are the Frunze Museum, the Historical Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts. There are several theaters in the city.

The national composition of Bishkek up to the middle of the XX century included mainly the Russian-speaking population. But then the situation began to change rapidly, and at the moment the Kyrgyz make up a large part of the population of the capital, and the percentage of the Kyrgyz population vis-à-vis other peoples is steadily growing year by year. In total, about 1 million people of the most diverse nationalities live in the city.

Among the public transport in the city there are buses, trolleybuses and shuttles. The bus fleet is quite outdated, so the most popular here are taxi minibuses. Also well established is intercity bus service, which especially increases in summer. Indeed, one of the most popular tourist destinations for residents, for example, Kazakhstan is Kyrgyzstan. Rest on the Issyk-Kul lake provides an opportunity to spend a vacation for people with a variety of levels of income. Therefore, during the beach season from Bishkek, routes are organized into three parts of the lake: to Balykchi, located in the closest distance from Bishkek, to Cholpon-Ata, located on the northern shore of the lake, and to Karakol, which is the administrative center of the Issyk-Kul region.