Street of Old Pishpek

of the early twentieth century While the construction of residential buildings in the city of Pishpek was carried out strictly according to plan, when there were two or three estates in one block, the development of shopping streets became denser and the block was built up with a continuous series of shops and stores. Sometimes ordinary residential buildings were adapted for commercial and office premises. And one could see on them fragments of the main entrances and locked gates with arched ceilings and patterned brickwork of pillars. Metallic openwork awnings continued to hang over the disappeared porches.