Kurmanjan Datka Monument

Курманжан Датка эстелиги

An equestrian statue honouring Kurmanjan Datka, the 19th-century 'Queen of Alai', a symbol of Kyrgyz national memory.

Kurmanjan Datka was a female leader of the Kyrgyz tribes of the Alai mountains in the 19th century. She navigated between the Khanate of Kokand and Tsarist Russia to protect her people, and is revered as the 'Queen of Alai'. Her portrait appears on the 50-som banknote of Kyrgyzstan. The statue stands in a traffic-island square on the southeastern side of the Sacred Mountain. Entry is free, and it can be visited together with the mausoleum and museum at the foot of the mountain.

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