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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Kyrgyzstan

The list of Kyrgyzstan bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2010, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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29 Apr 2010 (AKI Press-Bishkek) The Labor Ministry of Kyrgyzstan has announced the upcoming working and non-working days in connection with the May 2010 public holidays in Kyrgyzstan. • 15 Feb 2010 (Kyrgyz National News Agency-KABAR) The government of Kyrgyzstan has declared Monday, February 22, 2010, as a one-off non-working bridge public holiday, to link the weekend with the annual, February 23, Homeland Defenders' Day public holiday. • 11 Dec 2009 (News Agency AKIpress-Bishkek) The government of Kyrgyzstan has declared the period of Friday, January 1, to Sunday, January 10, 2010, inclusively, as non-working public holidays throughout Kyrgyzstan. • 05 Sep 2009 (The Times Of Central Asia-Bishkek) Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister, Igor Chudinov, has signed a decree declaring the dates of the upcoming Orozo Ait (End of Ramadan) and Kurman Ait (Feast of Sacrifice) public holidays, which shall be observed on Sunday, September 20 and Friday, November 27, 2009, respectively. • 05 Aug 2009 (The Times of Central Asia-Bishkek) Kyrgyzstan’s Spiritual Department of Muslims has approved the dates for the month of Ramadan in 2009, which will begin on Friday, August 21, 2009, and will finish on Saturday, September 19, 2009. • 01 Jul 2009 (News Agency AKIpress-Bishkek) Earlier today, Kyrgyzstan's Minister of Culture and Information, Sultan Raev, told reporters that Kyrgyzstan is likely to have a new public holiday, the Day of National Heritage, beginning next year. • 27 Apr 2009 (Kyrgyz National News Agency-KABAR) Earlier today, the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, Igor Chudinov, signed a governmental resolution declaring Monday, May 4, 2009, as a one-off non-working bridge public holiday (Tuesday, May 5, 2009, is already an annual public holiday). • 16 Mar 2009 (Kyrgyz National News Agency-Bishkek) Earlier today, Kyrgyzstan's labor and social development ministry issued a statement announcing that, as per article 113 of the Labour Code of Kyrgyzstan, Monday, March 23, 2009, would be a regular working day. • 19 Dec 2008 (AKI Press-Bishkek) Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister, Igor Chudinov, has signed an executive order declaring the period from January 1 to January 7, 2009, as non-working nationwide public holidays in Kyrgyzstan. • 26 Nov 2008 (CA News-Bishkek) Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister, Igor Chudinov, announced that Kyrgyzstan would mark the Kurman Ait public holiday on Monday, December 8, 2008. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Kyrgyzstan public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Kyrgyztan are regulated by the Article 155 of the 2004 Labour Code of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan which replaced the 1997 consolidated Labour Code. Section 166 of the 1997 Labour code was amended in 2002 by the Act No. 2 of 5 January 2002 to amend and supplement the Labour Code (Text No. 7) and the Act No. 3 of 8 January 2002 to supplement the Labour Code (Text No. 8) which are both still in effect. • Weekend Public Holidays are regulated by paragraph 2 of article 115 of the 2004 Labour Code. • Bridge Public Holidays: paragraph 3 of article 115 of the 2004 Labour Code specifies that The government of the Kyrgyz Republic may transfer weekends [to] other days for [the] rational use of weekends and non-working holidays. • November 7th is the public holiday that marks the day of the Great October Revolution back in 1917 when the tsarist regime in Russian Empire was replaced by the Bolsheviks. • Homeland Defenders' Day (February 23) was reinstated as a replacement for the soviet times' Army Day in 2003, but it was removed from the list of official public holidays in 2004, before being reinstated, without much fanfare, in 2008. • Kyrgyzstan International Codes KG and KGZ (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .kg (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Kyrgyzstan information and news: National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Kyrgyzstan maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Kyrgyzstan), and Wikipedia (includes Kyrgyzstan commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Kyrgyzstan, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Kyrgyzstan, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Kyrgyzstan. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Kyrgyzstan that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Kyrgyzstan were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

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In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2010 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Kyrgyzstan, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Kyrgyzstan, before planning any trip to Kyrgyzstan. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.