Boom Gorge
Boom Gorge ('shoestring gorge', Kyrgyz: Боом капчыгайы, Russian: Боо́мское уще́лье) is an antecedent gorge in Chuy Province and Issyk-Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan.
The Boom Gorge Mountains
Boom Gorge
The gorge cuts, in a general north-south direction, across one of Tian Shan's mountain range systems. The range east of the gorge is known as Kyungey Ala-Too (Russian: Кюнгей Ала-Тоо, based on similar Kyrgyz spelling), the one to the west is the Kyrgyz Ala-Too (Russian: Кирги́зский хребе́т).[1]
The Chu River passes northwards through it and then enters the wider Chuy Valley. The Bishkek-Tokmak-Kemin-Balykchy highway (A365) passes through the gorge, as does the railway from Bishkek to Balykchy.
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- Soviet topo map K-43-B (Russian: К-43-Б), 1:500,000. USSR Ministry of Defence, 1988.
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