Karasuu

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Karasuu (disambiguation) .

Karasuu Карасуу
Karasuu
Basic data
State :	Kyrgyzstan
Territory :	Osh
Coordinates :	40 ° 42 '  N , 72 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 42 '0 "  N , 72 ° 53' 0"  E
Height :	780  m
Area :	38.7  km²
Residents :	19,276 (2005)
Population density :	498 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	(+996) 3232
Structure and administration
Community type :	city

Karasuu ( Kyrgyz Карасуу Karasuu meaning "black water") is a border town in southwest Kyrgyzstan on the border with Uzbekistan with 19,276 inhabitants (2005 calculation). Karasuu is the administrative center of the Karasuu district of the same name .

location

Karasu is 25 kilometers northeast of Osh . The city is separated from the city of Qorasuv on the Uzbek side by the Shahrixonsoy , a canalized left branch of the Qoradaryo , which forms the state border there .

history

During the time of the Russian Empire, the place formed a unit with today's Uzbek part. With the formation of the Uzbek and Kyrgyz SSR (initially as ASSR ) in the 1920s, the place was administratively divided. For the place in Kyrgyzstan, the spelling Kara-Su , later Kara-Suu, was common in the Soviet period . The place received first the status of an urban-type settlement and in 1960 the city charter .

The only bridge over the river was blown up during the unrest after the collapse of the Soviet empire in the mid-1990s and was only restored in May 2005 after large numbers of demonstrators fled to the Kyrgyz side of Karasuu during the violently suppressed unrest in Uzbekistan .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	12,254
1970	16,133
1979	19,476
1989	19.208
1999	19,143
2005	19,276

Note : 1959–1989 census data, 2005 calculation / estimate

economy

Unemployment is high and the inhabitants live largely from border trade. In the Karasuu international market, Uzbeks sell agricultural products, while the Kyrgyz trade in household goods from China. The market is the largest in the country with 10,200 stores and 16,300 employees in the 2008 reporting period. In that year, sales were estimated at 94 million US dollars, with wholesalers accounting for 80 percent.

Personalities

• Akhlidin Israilov (* 1994), Kyrgyz-Ukrainian football player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elke Windisch : Central Asia. Political travel reports. J & D Daǧyeli, Berlin 2007, pp. 197f
2. ^ Gül Berna Özkan: Hotly contested - The new capitalism of the bazaars in Central Asia. In: Central Asia Analyzes, No. 38, February 25, 2011, p. 11