[ { "file": "Irad_(orthographic_projection).svg", "article": "Irad", "placement": "infobox", "width": 250, "caption": "Location of Irad (green) in Central Asia", "alt": "Orthographic globe centred on Central Asia with Irad shown in green", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Map_of_Irad.svg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Geography", "width": 300, "caption": "Map of Irad, showing the Qara-Chik Demarcation Line between the ISEZ and the Autonomous Tribal Regions", "alt": "Reference map of Irad with rivers, mountain ranges, cities and neighbouring countries", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Irad_Mejlis_2023.svg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Elections", "width": 250, "caption": "Composition of the Mejlis after the 2023 election", "alt": "Seat diagram of the 60-member Mejlis: DPI 51, independents 6, Russo-aligned deputies 3", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Irad_administrative_divisions.svg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Administrative divisions", "width": 300, "caption": "The districts of the ISEZ and the UN planning zones of the Autonomous Tribal Regions", "alt": "Map of Irad coloured by ISEZ district and ATR planning zone", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Irad_ethnic_groups_2018.svg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Ethnic groups", "width": 300, "caption": "Ethnic groups in Irad, 2018 census (official figures)", "alt": "Bar chart of ethnic groups: Iradis 72%, Kyrgyz 7%, Uzbeks 5%, Russians 4%, Americans 4%, Kazakhs 3%, others 1% each", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Irad_religion_2018.svg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Religion", "width": 300, "caption": "Religion in Irad, 2018 estimate", "alt": "Bar chart of religion: Christianity 78%, Islam 18%, other 4%", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Attelkom_logo.png", "article": "Attelkom", "placement": "lead", "width": 250, "caption": "Attelkom logo", "alt": "Attelkom logo: a white horse's head within a globe, with the words \"Irad's #1 ISP\" and \"Attelkom\", on forest green", "credit": "Logo supplied by the wiki owner" }, { "file": "IradOne_logo.svg", "article": "IradOne", "placement": "lead", "width": 250, "caption": "IradOne logo", "alt": "IradOne logo: the word IradOne with a large blue I inside an open blue rounded frame", "credit": "Logo supplied by the wiki owner; lettering outlined from Montserrat (SIL Open Font License)" }, { "file": "Tulpar_logo.svg", "article": "Tulpar (app)", "placement": "lead", "width": 220, "caption": "Tulpar logo", "alt": "A white winged horse leaping left on a turquoise rounded square, beside the word tulpar in dark teal lowercase letters", "credit": "Logo from the Tulpar website, supplied by the wiki owner; lettering outlined from Unbounded (SIL Open Font License)" }, { "file": "Jilmay_logo.svg", "article": "Jılmay", "placement": "lead", "width": 220, "caption": "Jılmay logo", "alt": "A smiling yellow emoji face beside the word jılmay in bold rounded green lowercase letters", "credit": "Logo from the Jılmay website, supplied by the wiki owner; face from Noto Emoji (Apache License 2.0), lettering outlined from Nunito (SIL Open Font License)" }, { "file": "Irad_Palace_of_Art_logo.png", "article": "Irad Palace of Art", "placement": "lead", "width": 250, "caption": "Irad Palace of Art logo", "alt": "Irad Palace of Art logo: a white line drawing of a horse's head on a deep red square, beside the name in small capitals", "credit": "Logo from the Irad Palace of Art website, supplied by the wiki owner" }, { "file": "FreeIrad.org_logo.png", "article": "FreeIrad.org", "placement": "lead", "width": 300, "caption": "FreeIrad.org logo", "alt": "FreeIrad.org logo: a red horse's head beside the name FREEIRAD.ORG in red bold capitals, on black", "credit": "Logo from FREEIRAD.ORG, supplied by the wiki owner" }, { "file": "Qara-Chik_Demarcation_Line_map.svg", "article": "Qara-Chik Demarcation Line", "section": "Course", "width": 300, "caption": "The Qara-Chik Demarcation Line since the 2009 protocol, with its four UNMI sectors and the 12 km restricted-weapons zone", "alt": "Map of Irad showing the ISEZ and the Autonomous Tribal Regions separated by the dashed red Qara-Chik line, with a shaded band along it", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Naryn_corridor_map.svg", "article": "Qara-Chik Demarcation Line", "section": "The Naryn corridor", "width": 250, "caption": "The Naryn corridor: Toktogul District, the ISEZ strip along State Route 1 from the Otmek Tunnel over the Fergana Gateway to the Toktogul basin, and Lower Naryn District below the dam", "alt": "Map of Toktogul District and Lower Naryn District with State Route 1 from Talas, the Toktogul reservoir and dam, the Naryn cascade down the gorge and the farm belt round Bazar-Korgon", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Naryn_corridor_map.svg", "article": "Fergana Mountain Transit Highway", "section": "Route", "width": 250, "caption": "State Route 1 from Talas up the Talas valley, through the Otmek Tunnel and over the Fergana Gateway to the Toktogul basin and Tash-Kömür", "alt": "Map of the highway corridor from Talas to Tash-Kömür, flanked by tribal land", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Naryn_corridor_map.svg", "article": "Toktogul Hydroelectric Complex", "section": "Divided control", "width": 250, "caption": "The complex and the downstream Naryn cascade, in the ISEZ since the 2009 protocol", "alt": "Map of the Toktogul reservoir, dam and switchyard and the Naryn cascade inside the ISEZ corridor, with tribal land on the mountains around the basin", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Transport_in_Irad_map.svg", "article": "Transport in Irad", "placement": "lead", "width": 300, "caption": "Railways, main highways, pipelines, airfields and the three crossings into Kazakhstan", "alt": "Transport map of Irad: the railway from the Talas North Terminal through Talas to Nurzhan, the Trans-Talas Highway and State Route 1, pipelines around Nurzhan, and border crossings", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Energy_and_resources_of_Irad_map.svg", "article": "Energy in Irad", "placement": "lead", "width": 300, "caption": "Oil and gas fields, mines, power stations and main lines, in relation to the Qara-Chik line", "alt": "Map of Irad's oil fields around Nurzhan, the undeveloped Muyunkum gas field, uranium and gold areas in the tribal regions, the Toktogul dam and the Naryn cascade", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Energy_and_resources_of_Irad_map.svg", "article": "Economy of Irad", "section": "Sectors", "width": 300, "caption": "Energy and mineral resources of Irad", "alt": "Map of oil and gas fields, mines and power stations in Irad", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Second_Iradi_Civil_War_map.svg", "article": "Second Iradi Civil War", "section": "Course of the war", "width": 300, "caption": "The situation in late May 2007, the storming of Talas on 4 June, the DPI advances of the summer and the September ceasefire line (as it ran before the 2009 protocol, approximate)", "alt": "Map of Irad in 2007: Popular Front control of the countryside in green, Toktarov's area around Nurzhan in blue, the besieged DRI pocket at Talas in orange, with attack arrows", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Toktarov_gubernatorial_results.svg", "article": "Elections in Irad", "section": "Gubernatorial elections", "width": 300, "caption": "Erlan Toktarov's official share of the vote, 2011–2023", "alt": "Bar chart: 2011 88.74%, 2015 78.25%, 2019 90.31%, 2023 92.75%", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Toktarov_gubernatorial_results.svg", "article": "Politics of Irad", "section": "Elections", "width": 250, "caption": "Toktarov's official share of the vote in ISEZ gubernatorial elections", "alt": "Bar chart: 2011 88.74%, 2015 78.25%, 2019 90.31%, 2023 92.75%", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Toktarov_family_tree.svg", "article": "Erlan Toktarov", "section": "Family", "width": 400, "caption": "The Toktarov family", "alt": "Family tree: Erlan Toktarov and Anara Toktarova; sons Ruslan, Alikhan, Timur, Adil and Bekzat; daughter Zara, married to Aidar Maksat", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Qara-Chik_Demarcation_Line_map.svg", "article": "Bishkek Ceasefire Agreement (2007)", "section": "Provisions", "width": 300, "caption": "The line fixed by the agreement, as amended by the 2009 protocol, with its four UNMI sectors", "alt": "Map of Irad showing the ISEZ and the Autonomous Tribal Regions separated by the dashed red Qara-Chik line", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Naryn_corridor_map.svg", "article": "Naryn Water and Power Protocol", "section": "Provisions", "width": 250, "caption": "The Toktogul complex and the downstream Naryn cascade, all in the ISEZ since the 2009 protocol", "alt": "Map of the ISEZ corridor from Talas over the Fergana Gateway to the Toktogul basin (Toktogul District) and down the Naryn (Lower Naryn District), with the Toktogul reservoir and dam", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Naryn_corridor_map.svg", "article": "Fergana Gateway", "section": "Geography", "width": 250, "caption": "The Fergana Gateway (Ala-Bel Pass) on State Route 1, in the ISEZ corridor to the Toktogul basin", "alt": "Map of the ISEZ corridor from Talas over the Fergana Gateway to the Toktogul basin (Toktogul District) and down the Naryn (Lower Naryn District), with the Toktogul reservoir and dam", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Naryn_corridor_map.svg", "article": "Tash-Kömür", "section": "Geography", "width": 250, "caption": "Tash-Kömür, where the ISEZ's Naryn gorge corridor opens onto the river flats and the Fergana farm belt", "alt": "Map of the ISEZ corridor from Talas over the Fergana Gateway to the Toktogul basin (Toktogul District) and down the Naryn (Lower Naryn District), with the Toktogul reservoir and dam", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Transport_in_Irad_map.svg", "article": "Northern Border Demarcation Protocol", "section": "Crossings", "width": 300, "caption": "The three crossings set up by the protocol: the Talas North Terminal, the Chu Gate and Kum-Shagyl", "alt": "Transport map of Irad with the three crossings into Kazakhstan marked", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Energy_and_resources_of_Irad_map.svg", "article": "Northern Export Feeder", "section": "Route and technical description", "width": 300, "caption": "The feeder from Nurzhan to the metering station on the Kazakh frontier", "alt": "Map of the oil fields around Nurzhan and the pipelines to the refinery and the frontier", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Irad_administrative_divisions.svg", "article": "Irad Special Economic Zone", "section": "Administrative divisions", "width": 300, "caption": "The six districts of the ISEZ and the planning zones of the tribal regions", "alt": "Map of Irad coloured by ISEZ district and ATR planning zone", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Irad_administrative_divisions.svg", "article": "Autonomous Tribal Regions", "section": "Geography", "width": 300, "caption": "The UN planning zones of the Autonomous Tribal Regions", "alt": "Map of Irad coloured by ISEZ district and ATR planning zone", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Map_of_Irad.svg", "article": "Geography of Irad", "section": "Location and extent", "width": 300, "caption": "Reference map of Irad", "alt": "Reference map of Irad with rivers, mountain ranges, cities and neighbouring countries", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Rivers_of_Irad_map.svg", "article": "Geography of Irad", "section": "Hydrology", "width": 300, "caption": "Irad's three closed drainage systems (basin divides approximate)", "alt": "Map of Irad's rivers coloured by drainage basin: the Chu, the Talas and the Syr Darya system, with deserts that have no outflow", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Rivers_of_Irad_map.svg", "article": "Naryn River", "section": "Course", "width": 250, "caption": "The Naryn in the Syr Darya system of southern Irad", "alt": "Map of Irad's rivers coloured by drainage basin: the Chu, the Talas and the Syr Darya system, with deserts that have no outflow", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Rivers_of_Irad_map.svg", "article": "Talas River", "section": "Course", "width": 250, "caption": "The Talas basin, from the Talas Alatau to the sands of the western Moiynkum", "alt": "Map of Irad's rivers coloured by drainage basin: the Chu, the Talas and the Syr Darya system, with deserts that have no outflow", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Rivers_of_Irad_map.svg", "article": "Chu River Basin", "section": "Course", "width": 250, "caption": "The Chu basin in Irad, from the Kyrgyz frontier to the Akzhaykyn depression", "alt": "Map of Irad's rivers coloured by drainage basin: the Chu, the Talas and the Syr Darya system, with deserts that have no outflow", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Second_Iradi_Civil_War_map.svg", "article": "Storming of Talas (2007)", "section": "Background", "width": 250, "caption": "The situation in late May 2007, with Talas invested by the Popular Front", "alt": "Map of Irad in 2007 with the besieged DRI pocket at Talas and Front attack arrows", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "First_Iradi_Civil_War_map.svg", "article": "First Iradi Civil War", "section": "Course of the war", "width": 300, "caption": "Areas held in March 1992, the SRI offensive and siege of Talas, and the US and Provisional advance to Kobozev", "alt": "Map of Irad in 1992: the SRI around Kobozev and the railway in red, the Provisional Government in the Talas valley in blue, clan areas in green, with arrows", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "First_Iradi_Civil_War_map.svg", "article": "Battle of Kobozev Railhead (1992)", "placement": "infobox", "width": 250, "caption": "The battle on the railway approaches to Kobozev, late July 1992", "alt": "Map of the 1992 war with the battle marked west of Kobozev", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Government_of_Irad_diagram.svg", "article": "Politics of Irad", "section": "Constitutional framework", "width": 400, "caption": "Structure of government in the ISEZ and the tribal regions since 2007", "alt": "Diagram: ISEZ voters elect the Governor and Mejlis; the Governor appoints the cabinet and mayors; the ATR has clan councils, the Kurultai and the IAC; UNMI links the two", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Russian_conquest_of_Kokand_map.svg", "article": "Siege of Kokand (1876)", "placement": "infobox", "width": 300, "caption": "The Khanate of Kokand about 1850 and the Russian advances of 1860–1876 (khanate extent and oblast lines approximate)", "alt": "Map of the Khanate of Kokand about 1850 with red arrows of the Russian advances of 1860–1876 and the later oblast boundaries, over the outline of present-day Irad", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Russian_conquest_of_Kokand_map.svg", "article": "Semirechye Revolt (Irad)", "section": "Background", "width": 250, "caption": "The oblasts of Russian Turkestan that divided the Iradi lands until 1917", "alt": "Map of the Khanate of Kokand about 1850 with red arrows of the Russian advances of 1860–1876 and the later oblast boundaries, over the outline of present-day Irad", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Russian_conquest_of_Kokand_map.svg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Kokand and Russian rule", "width": 250, "caption": "The Russian conquest of Kokand, 1860–1876", "alt": "Map of the Khanate of Kokand about 1850 with red arrows of the Russian advances of 1860–1876 and the later oblast boundaries, over the outline of present-day Irad", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Iradi_SSR_location_map.svg", "article": "Iradi Soviet Socialist Republic", "placement": "lead", "width": 250, "caption": "The Iradi SSR within Soviet Central Asia", "alt": "Map of Soviet Central Asia with the Iradi SSR highlighted among the Kazakh, Uzbek, Kirghiz, Tajik and Turkmen SSRs", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Iradi_SSR_location_map.svg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Iradi SSR (1925–1991)", "width": 250, "caption": "The Iradi SSR within Soviet Central Asia", "alt": "Map of Soviet Central Asia with the Iradi SSR highlighted among the Kazakh, Uzbek, Kirghiz, Tajik and Turkmen SSRs", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "First_Iradi_Civil_War_map.svg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Independence and the First Civil War (1991–1992)", "width": 250, "caption": "The First Civil War, 1992", "alt": "Map of Irad in 1992 showing SRI, Provisional Government and clan areas with arrows", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Second_Iradi_Civil_War_map.svg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Withdrawal and the Second Civil War (2006–2007)", "width": 250, "caption": "The Second Civil War, 2007", "alt": "Map of Irad in 2007 showing Popular Front, Toktarov and DRI areas with arrows", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Rivers_of_Irad_map.svg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Hydrology", "width": 250, "caption": "Drainage basins of Irad (approximate)", "alt": "Map of Irad's rivers coloured by drainage basin", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Energy_and_resources_of_Irad_map.svg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Energy and mining", "width": 250, "caption": "Energy and mineral resources", "alt": "Map of oil and gas fields, mines and power stations in Irad", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain)" }, { "file": "Transport_in_Irad_map.svg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Transport and communications", "width": 250, "caption": "Railways, highways and crossings into Kazakhstan", "alt": "Transport map of Irad", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki from the Kartalar map data and Natural Earth data (public domain); roads and railways fitted to OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)" }, { "file": "Toktogul_complex_layout.svg", "article": "Toktogul Hydroelectric Complex", "section": "Engineering", "width": 300, "caption": "Schematic layout of the complex, in the ISEZ since the 2009 protocol (not to scale)", "alt": "Schematic: the dam and powerhouse, Kara-Köl, the switchyard and dispatch center, the Naryn bridge checkpoint and State Route 1 on the floor of the basin, with the Qara-Chik line on the slopes above", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Talas_skyline_2022.jpg", "article": "Talas", "placement": "lead", "width": 300, "caption": "Talas from the hills to the north, with the Talas Alatau behind", "alt": "View from a dry hillside past a rusty garage over a long poplar-lined avenue of Soviet apartment blocks, with glass towers and a domed hall to the right and a snow-capped mountain behind", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Nurzhan_central_square.jpg", "article": "Nurzhan", "placement": "lead", "width": 300, "caption": "The central square of Nurzhan, with the former House of Soviets", "alt": "Woman in a fur-collared coat at the edge of a vast paved square in winter; a trolleybus under overhead wires and a large stepped grey concrete government building set at an angle on the right", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Nurzhan_Refinery_No_1.jpg", "article": "Nurzhan Refinery No. 1", "placement": "lead", "width": 300, "caption": "Nurzhan Refinery No. 1 in the city's eastern industrial zone", "alt": "Old refinery with rusty columns and a flare burning with black smoke, white tanks and a train of black tank cars, seen through a car window with the wing mirror at the lower left", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Nurzhan_Refinery_No_1.jpg", "article": "Energy in Irad", "section": "Refining", "width": 250, "caption": "Nurzhan Refinery No. 1, the oldest and largest refinery in Irad", "alt": "Old refinery with rusty columns and a flare burning with black smoke, white tanks and a train of black tank cars, seen through a car window with the wing mirror at the lower left", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Koryo-saram_Kobozev_1937.jpg", "article": "Koryo-saram in Irad", "placement": "lead", "width": 300, "caption": "Deported Koreans arriving by freight train in the Chu valley, autumn 1937, and local villagers bringing bread and blankets", "alt": "Black-and-white photograph of Korean families in white clothes carrying children and bundles beside a train of wooden boxcars on the open steppe, a steam locomotive behind", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Koryo-saram_Kobozev_1937.jpg", "article": "Iradi Soviet Socialist Republic", "section": "Deportations", "width": 250, "caption": "Deported Koreans unloaded at a station near Kobozev, 1937", "alt": "Black-and-white photograph of Korean families in white clothes carrying children and bundles beside a train of wooden boxcars on the open steppe, a steam locomotive behind", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Urkun_1916.jpg", "article": "The Urkun (Iradi Theater)", "placement": "lead", "width": 300, "caption": "A herding family on a pass of the Tian Shan during the flight toward China, winter 1916–17", "alt": "Early colour photograph of two women in tall white wrapped headdresses beside a loaded black-and-white horse and a child bundled in a shawl, on a snowy pass; other refugees sit and rest among bundles and boulders behind them", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Urkun_1916.jpg", "article": "Semirechye Revolt (Irad)", "section": "The flight to China", "width": 250, "caption": "Families crossing the mountains in the Urkun, winter 1916–17", "alt": "Early colour photograph of two women in tall white wrapped headdresses beside a loaded black-and-white horse and a child bundled in a shawl, on a snowy pass; other refugees sit and rest among bundles and boulders behind them", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Iradi_cross.svg", "article": "Iradi Cross", "placement": "lead", "width": 220, "caption": "The Iradi cross, as in the emblem adopted by the Syro-Iradi Episcopal Synod in 1994", "alt": "Squat crimson cross patonce, its upper and side arms ending in three points, whose lower arm is the central petal of a five-petal lotus rising out of the flower", "credit": "Drawn for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "The_White_Rider_Shows_the_Way.jpg", "article": "Yusup Ayyubov", "width": 300, "caption": "The White Rider Shows the Way (1913), Irad Palace of Art, Iyık Janyl", "alt": "Night painting of a hillside track: a rider in white on a white horse points to a bright star while a second rider on a dark horse waits below, above a plain scattered with lights", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki", "section": "Landscapes and the White Rider (1903–1916)" }, { "file": "The_White_Rider_Shows_the_Way.jpg", "article": "Irad", "section": "Etymology", "width": 300, "caption": "Yusup Ayyubov's The White Rider Shows the Way (1913) shows Christ revealing Irad's star to Janyl", "alt": "Night painting of a rider in white on a white horse pointing to a bright star, with a second rider below", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Talas_River.jpg", "article": "Talas River", "placement": "lead", "width": 300, "caption": "The Talas River on the valley floor near Talas", "alt": "This river starts in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan and winds down into Kazakhstan. 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ram's-horn patterns", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Chynara_Mamytova.jpg", "article": "Chynara Mamytova", "placement": "infobox", "width": 250, "caption": "Mamytova in her workshop", "alt": "A woman in a clay-stained apron holding a cream bowl painted with black birds, in front of shelves of plates and bowls", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Almazbek_Kasymov.jpg", "article": "Almazbek Kasymov", "placement": "infobox", "width": 250, "caption": "Kasymov at work, about 2010", "alt": "A white-bearded man in a white felt hat and quilted jacket carving an ornamental wooden panel with a mallet", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Irad_Times_special_edition_2007.jpg", "article": "Irad Times", "placement": "lead", "width": 260, "caption": "Front page of the special edition of 26 February 2007, with the partition drafts", "alt": "A newspaper front page headed IRAD TIMES, Special Edition, Talas, Monday 26 February 2007, with the headline THE DRAFTS and a sketch map dividing Irad among Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Irad_Times_press.jpg", "article": "Irad Times", "section": "Founding (1996–2006)", "width": 260, "caption": "The paper's press on Printers' Lane, Talas", "alt": "Two printers check newspaper sheets coming off a small offset press in a cramped print shop", "credit": "AI-generated image for Irad Wiki" }, { "file": "Bill_of_Sale_partition_map.svg", "article": "Bill of Sale (2007)", "section": "Terms", "width": 400, "caption": "The partition in the drafts: Protocol III to Kazakhstan, Protocol I to Kyrgyzstan, Protocol II to Uzbekistan", "alt": "Map of Irad divided into three coloured areas: the large northern steppe in blue for Kazakhstan, the Talas valley, Chatkal and Naryn lands in red for Kyrgyzstan, and the Fergana rim in green for Uzbekistan, with dashed proposed boundaries", "credit": "Map for Irad Wiki. 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