Sarytash
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Sary-Tash Сарыташ |
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 Kyrgyzstan
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| Territory : | Osh | ||||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 44 ' N , 73 ° 15' E | ||||
| Height : | 3170 m | ||||
| Residents : | 1,427 (2009) | ||||
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| Community type : | Urban-type settlement | ||||
Sarytasch ( Kyrgyz Сарыташ ) is an urban-type settlement with 1,427 (as of 2009) inhabitants in the Alai district in the Osh region in the extreme south of the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia .
The place name means "yellow stone". The place was founded in 1950 and is important as a junction of several important roads in the Pamir and as a base for the maintenance and maintenance of these roads. In good weather you have a great view to the south of the mighty Pamir mountains.
location
Sarytasch is located at an altitude of 3,170 m in the east of the Alaital between the Alai Mountains and the Transalai Mountains of the Pamir on the upper reaches of the Kysylsuu and on the section of the Pamir Highway from Osh in the Fergana Valley to Chorugh in Tajikistan, which was completed in 1932 . The settlement was built in order to ensure the road maintenance, which is necessary for the extremely difficult climatic conditions (including the high altitude, very cold winters, a lot of snowfall, avalanches ), and to service and refuel vehicles. Today there is a gas station, a few small restaurants and a few simple hostels in the village. The place is also a garrison of Kyrgyz border troops who monitor a section of the border with Tajikistan, through which drugs are smuggled from the south and then on to Russia and Europe.
traffic
The Pamir Highway ( M 41 ) crosses the 3615 m high Taldyk Pass in the Alai Mountains about 10 km north of Sarytasch in spectacular turns and then crosses Sarytasch and crosses the river Kysylsuu in a generally north-south direction. About 50 km south of Sarytasch, the Pamir Highway, which is rarely used here, crosses the 4250 m high Kyzyl-Art Pass over the Transalai Mountains on the border with Tajikistan.
In Sarytasch, the now well-developed A 371 road , the eastern end of European route 60 , branches off from the Pamir Highway to the east and, after crossing the 3723 m high Irkeschtam Pass at Irkeschtam, 78 km west of Sarytasch, it reaches the border with the autonomous region of Xinjiang in the People's Republic China .
Around 2.5 km southwest of Sarytasch, the A 372 road branches off to the west, always following the Kyzylsu, into the Tschong-Alai district in the western Alaital. The pass at its western end on the border with Tajikistan is not open to foreigners.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Isaac Taylor, Names and their histories: a handbook of historical geography and topographical nomenclature. Rivingtons, London, 2nd Edition, 1898, p. 317.