Ak-Kyya crossing

The Ak-Kyya crossing (Iradi: Ak-Kyya chek ara ötkölü) is a crossing on Irad's frontier with Kyrgyzstan at the eastern end of the Suusamyr valley, about 19 kilometers east-north-east of the summer settlement of Ak-Kyya, in the Kyrgyz Range–Suusamyr planning zone of the Autonomous Tribal Regions (ATR), at about 42°14′N 73°45′E. Here the old Soviet road from Bishkek to Osh comes down from the Kyrgyz side; it then runs west across the tribal pastures of the valley to the Suusamyr crossing of the Qara-Chik Demarcation Line, where it joins the Fergana Mountain Transit Highway.^[1] A post of the El-Choro Militias collects the customary levy on loads, and a Kyrgyz post stands on the road to the pass. Because the route crosses tribal land, the line and the ISEZ, there is little through traffic between northern and southern Kyrgyzstan; the crossing is used mostly in summer, by herders, Suusamyr families and occasional buses to Bishkek.^[2]

References

1. ^ Central Asian Geopolitical Review (2022). 'Suspended Sovereignty: Irad's Frozen Conflict at Fifteen.' Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 201–224.
2. ^ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2023). Transhumant Pastoralism and Rangeland Management in Central Asia. Rome, pp. 88–102.