"The city is mankurt." How and why historical sites and architectural monuments are being demolished in Bishkek
The capital of Kyrgyzstan is at the epicenter of a cleansing of the historical past: Bishkek has already lost several large objects of Soviet architecture, and some other monuments are under threat of destruction. In their place there is an active commercial...
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Source: BBC Russian
Столица Кыргызстана в эпицентре чистки исторического прошлого: Бишкек уже лишился нескольких крупных объектов советской архитектуры, под угрозой уничтожения находятся и некоторые другие памятники. На их месте идет активное коммерческое строительство. Би-би-си попробовала разобраться, связано ли это с десоветизацией, и что ждет город, который до сих пор мог считаться образцом советского градостроения в Центральной Азии.
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