BOKONBAYEVO, Kyrgyzstan (RNS ... the springs are located along the shores of Issyk Kul, the 10th-largest lake in the world; its name translates to “warm water” as its slight salinity ...

STORY: Issyk-Kul means "warm lake" in Kyrgyz. The name was given because the water never freezes due to the lake's depth and natural warmth of water. Local resident, Taalay Orozakunov, said he and his ...

We would love to dive and not find any waste,' says Anvar Shamsutdinov — VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO On the shores of Lake Issyk Kul in mountainous Kyrgyzstan, a group of divers show off their haul for the ...

In July 2022, when Kyrgyz authorities unveiled plans for Asman, a new city on the shores of scenic Lake Issyk Kul, they said the project would boost the local economy, attract foreign tourists ...

In 1338 and 1339, people were dying in droves in the villages around Lake Issyk-Kul in what’s now northern Kyrgyzstan. Many of the tombstones from those years blame the deaths on a generic ...

They found genetic fingerprints of the bacterium Yersinia pestis in individuals who had been buried with tombstones referring to a "pestilence" at the site by Lake Issyk Kul, in what is now ...

Pilgrims, Choitonbaev explained, come from around Kyrgyzstan to this spring ... the springs are located along the shores of Issyk Kul, the 10th-largest lake in the world; its name translates ...

The Issyk-Kul lake in northern Kyrgyzstan, which traditionally never freezes due to the lakes depth and natural warmth of water, froze over due to extreme cold temperatures on Saturday January 14.