Naryn

Speakers at the graduation also emphasised UCA’s and the Aga Khan Development Network’s current and future initiatives as part of a long-term vision to transform Naryn into a modern university town capable of thriving in the knowledge society age.

And in the visual arts, the most popular portraitist living in St. Petersburg is a rural boy from Naryn.

A new hydroelectric plant on the Naryn River at Kambar–Ata would supply power to parts of China and Russia, improving Kyrgyzstan’s export situation and domestic energy supply.

Because the Naryn Basin, where many hydroelectric projects are located, is very active seismically, flooding is also a danger should a dam be broken by an earthquake.

The Kyrgyzstani government has expressed alarm over the numbers of Chinese who are moving into Naryn and other parts of Kyrgyzstan, but no preventive measures had been taken as of 1996.