Jeti-Ögüz village

This article is about the village. For other uses, see Jeti-Oguz.

Jeti-Ögüz Жети-Өгүз (айыл)
village
Jeti-Ögüz
Coordinates: 42°N 78°E
Country	Kyrgyzstan
Region	Issyk-Kul Region
District	Jeti-Ögüz District
Population  (2023)
• Total	3,986

Seven Bulls rock formation near Jeti-Ögüz

Broken Heart rock

A waterfall in a gully in the mountains surrounding Jeti-Ögüz, frozen in the late fall

Jeti-Ögüz (Kyrgyz: Жети-Өгүз, romanized: Jeti-Ögüz, lit. 'seven bulls') is a village located at the north slope of Teskey Ala-Too mountain range near Issyk Kul in the Jeti-Ögüz District of Issyk-Kul Region of Kyrgyzstan. Its population was 4,143 in 2021.[1]

In the mountains surrounding Jeti-Ögüz, with visible pine-tree plantations

History

The thermal springs of Jeti-Ögüz were known to local inhabitants since antiquity. The place became known to Europe after 1856 when Semenov-Tian-Shanskii first visited it. Since 1965 the resort operates year-round. In 1991, an important meeting between Boris Yeltsin and Askar Akayev took place in Jeti-Ögüz.

References

1. "Population of regions, districts, towns, urban-type settlements, rural communities and villages of Kyrgyz Republic" (XLS) (in Russian). National Statistics Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2021. Archived from the original on 10 November 2021.