Talk:Kant, Kyrgyzstan

Photographs of Kant
Such a pity! I was in Kant two days ago, but had not known about this request and didn't make any picture of Kant. I'll try to do it the next time I'll go there. It's not really difficult, Kant is just 20 km to the East from Bishkek, buses do got there regularly. Bektour 14:57, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Named After German Philospher?
I spent a couple of months in Kant, and the people there told me that "Kant" means "sugar cube" in the Kyrgyz language. This seems to make more sense. It's difficult to imagine that Kyrgyz and Russian peasant farmers naming a city after a German philosopher of the Enlightenment. Robko626 18:01, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, they named other German settlements in Kyrgyzstan "Rotfront" and "Luxemburg".Cosal 20:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

It just seems like an assumption, whereas naming a town after what is produced there was very common in the Soviet Union (i.e. Mineralaya Voda, Rybache, etc...) The sugar cube explanation seems more plausible than the Kant story.

Ahhhh...I see someone changed it. Thank you!