Kant (Kyrgyzstan)
Kant Кант |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Kyrgyzstan | |||
Territory : | Bye | |||
Coordinates : | 42 ° 53 ' N , 74 ° 51' 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 |
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
- Michail Schwydkoi (* 1948), Russian art scholar and politician
- Orsubek Nazarow (* 1966), Kyrgyz politician and former boxer
- Anton Semljanuchin (* 1988), football player
- Viktor Maier (* 1990), Kyrgyz-German football player
See also
- Russian Germans
- Kyrgyzstan Germans
- Kazakh Germans
- Red front (mountain valley)
- Volga Germans
- List of cities in Kyrgyzstan
Web links
- Website about Kant ( Memento from March 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Population of the Kyrgyz Republic as of January 1, 2017. National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic, accessed March 29, 2019 (Russian).
- ↑ 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