Ming Kush, the village of 1000 birds
The journey to Ming-Kush, in the Jumgal district of the Chirghisa region of Naryn, was like a plunge into the past. Ming-Kush, ‘Thousand Birds‘ in English, was officially founded in 1955 around some uranium mines. During its heyday, the population reached 20,000, which dropped to 2,000 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the […]
November 8, 2023
