Kyzylorda

Meaning

Proper Noun

• city Kazakhstan (country), the country's capital from 1925 to 1929.

Related

Similar words

• Ak-Mechet (Kokand fortress, 1820-)
• Fort-Perovsky/Perovsk (Russian conquest, 1853-1925)
• Kzyl-Orda (-1991, Russian-based romanization)

Origin

• from the Turkic "кзыл", red (used here in the common Soviet ideological connotation) and the Turkic Mongolian "орда", city