Kant (Kyrgyzstan)

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Kant (Kyrgyzstan)
Kant
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Basic data
State : KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan
Territory : Bye
Coordinates : 42 ° 53 '  N , 74 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 53 '17 "  N , 74 ° 51' 1"  E
Height : 742  m
Area : 7.86  km²
Residents : 21,400 (2017)
Population density : 2,723 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+996) 3132
Structure and administration
Community type : city
Main road
railway station

Kant ( Kyrgyz Кант ) is an industrial city on the Tschüi plain in northern Kyrgyzstan , about 21 km east of the capital Bishkek (Frunze) and near the Kazakh border.

Kant is the administrative center of the Rajons Ysyk-Ata in Chuy Region . The population with some incorporated settlements, but without the Russian military personnel, is around 21,500.

Origin of name

The name Kant ( Kyrgyz for "sugar") came about when a sugar factory was built in the 1930s. The sometimes heard claim that the city was named after the German philosopher Immanuel Kant is incorrect.

economy

The city has lost many industrial and commercial jobs since the collapse of the Soviet Union . One of the most famous and flourishing companies is the Abdysh Ata Brewery, whose products are very popular in the country.

traffic

The city lies on the A 365 national road from Bishkek to Balyktschy and on the railway line Bishkek – Balyktschy .

Air Force Base

In 1941 the Soviet Union relocated an air force base and pilot school from Odessa to Kant. More than 1,500 pilots were trained there during the Second World War . From 1956 foreign pilots were also trained there: among them were the later presidents of Egypt , Hosni Mubarak , and of Syria , Hafiz al-Assad , as well as the Indian Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh . In 1992, after the end of the Soviet Union, the base was handed over to the Kyrgyz Republic. Since October 2003, the base has been used again by the Russian Air Force , which maintains the 999th air base of the 5th Air Army there in response to the Americans stationed in Bishkek since December 2001.

population

During the Soviet era, the city was the residence of a large number of former Volga Germans who were forcibly deported by Stalin from the Volga region to Central Asia after Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union when the Volga-German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was dissolved. The vast majority of them have since left Kyrgyzstan to move to Germany . Some villages in the area, such as Luxembourg (Люксембург), Friedenfeld (Фриденфельд) and Bergtal (Бергталь) (officially called the Red Front since 1927 ) still bear their German names, but only small remnants of the descendants of their Volga-German founders are there remained. The village of Telman (Thälmann) is also of German origin; it was founded in 1925 under the name "Grünfeld". A small museum in the village school of Bergtal / Rot-Front preserves the memory of the ancestors and their long and arduous journey to Central Asia.

church

Evangelical Lutheran

A congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kyrgyz Republic (ELCKR) has existed in Kant since the 1960s . At that time, a large number of Russian Germans still lived here . The parishioners live far and wide in the greater Kant area. The new prayer house was only bought and renovated in the 2010s. The community is cared for from Bishkek .

Sports

The city is home to the Abdish-Ata Kant football club .

Sons of the city

See also

Web links

Commons : Kant  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the Kyrgyz Republic as of January 1, 2017. National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic, accessed March 29, 2019 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Doris Krause / Michael Hübner, big, small, old, new ... The communities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kyrgyzstan in brief portraits , in: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kyrgyzstan , special issue Lutheran Service. Journal of the Martin-Luther-Bund , 55th year, 2019, issue 2, pp. 8–11