# Bishkek

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Buildings That I Love, Part Five: the Stalinist Triumvirate at Soviet Square

Previous entries in my “Buildings That I love” series have focused exclusively on the Kyrgyz capital’s Soviet Modernist…

Bishkek lies just 30 kilometers from the Kazakh border, and another 200 kilometers from Almaty, the cultural and…

Welcome to the fourth installment of Buildings That I Love, an ongoing exploration of Bishkek’s architectural curiosities. You…

Published on May 10, 2015

No architectural tour of Bishkek is complete without a visit to the Presidential Palace, the glorious seven-story pièce…

Published on May 9, 2015

Note: this post doesn’t contain any photos, aside from the one above (which was taken with my old…

Published on May 2, 2015

Welcome to the second installment of Buildings That I Love, an ongoing series in which I introduce some…

This post is the first in a series of short missives exploring the history and architecture of some…

Last Saturday, March 21, marked the first day of spring – and in the Persian calendar, it also…

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