This walking tour will tell a story of how industrialization began in fully agrarian Kyrgyzstan and how Central Europeans came to Soviet Kyrgyzstan in the mid-1920s.

"Interhelpo" was formed as a cooperative in Czechoslovakia in 1923 with the aim of helping Kyrgyzstan to build socialist economy.

Interhelpo united highly competent industry workers and farmers who were ready to leave home and make use of their skills in an unknown eastern land.

More than one thousand workers including their family members arrived in Kyrgyzstan, pure land "free from capitalism", where they could build a new, equal socialist society.

Interhelpo brings first industrial technology and farm machinery to Kyrgyzstan. Electricity first appears in Kyrgyzstan thanks to Interhelpo.

Just in a few years they built electric power station, textile factory, foundry, furniture factory, railroads, hospitals, schools and a few main government buildings. In 1925, Interhelpo was declared the best cooperative in the USSR.

On the walking tour, we will follow the footprints of Interhelpo, talk about the challenges of those times, successes and the fall of Interhelpo and explore related places that are still part of modern Bishkek.

The tour lasts for about 2 hours. Make sure you are dressed according to weather and have comfortable shoes on.

Cost:
700 som per person (if there are 5-15 people on a tour)
1000 som per person (if there are 2-4 people on a tour)
1500 som if there is only 1 person on a tour

The meeting point: the intersection of Intergel'po str. (Интергельпо) and Deng Xiaoping (continuation of Chui ave)
https://goo.gl/maps/ozNprwq8w1KXCsGi9
several blocks further west from Osh bazaar.
Language: English

Registration is compulsory:
https://goo.gl/forms/wUfSTLn6jsbJpbg03

For questions, e-mail us or phone: [email protected], +996 (0) 559 336 001.