Terek-Say

Terek-Say Терек-Сай
Terek-Say
Coordinates: 41°30′0″N 71°10′48″E / 41.50000°N 71.18000°E / 41.50000; 71.18000Coordinates: 41°30′0″N 71°10′48″E / 41.50000°N 71.18000°E / 41.50000; 71.18000
Country	Kyrgyzstan
Province	Jalal-Abad Province
Terek Say	1950
Elevation	1,873 m (6,145 ft)
Population (2009)
• Total	2,418
Time zone	UTC +5

Terek-Say (Kyrgyz: Терек-Сай) is a village (an urban-type settlement from 1950 to 2012) in the Jalal-Abad Province of Kyrgyzstan established in 1950 in relation to commissioning Terek-Say Antimony Mine. It is located at the altitude of 1700 asl on the main highway about 30 km west northwest of Ala-Buka. In Soviet times, the activity of the settlement was critically dependent of the mine management and Chatkal Geological Expedition. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 the production sharply declined due to severance of economic ties, the abandonment of inventory and logistics management and fall in antimony prices. It resulted in the outflow of skilled labor, and decay of urban housing and utilities infrastructure.

Climate

The climate is severely continental with winter extreme temperatures of -35-40 and summer temperatures from +25 to +30. The snow cover is typically from October to May. The depth of soil freezing is up to 1 meter.^[1]

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