A conference dedicated to the 1500th anniversary of Christianity in Central Asia was held at KRSU

On December 15, an international conference «From Merv and Suyab – 1500 years of Christianity in Central Asia» was held in the conference hall of the main building of KRSU.

KRSU Vice-Rector for Scientific Work, Professor Valery Lelevkin and Archpriest Andrey Kunavin (Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan Diocese) addressed the event participants with a welcoming speech.

Scientists and experts, among whom president of the Board of the Bible Society of Kyrgyzstan Ruslan Tashibaev, corresponding Member of the Russian Geographical Society Vladimir Rudenko, Doctor of Philosophy, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Archeology named after. A. Margulana (Almaty) Boris Zheleznyakov, archaeologist, researcher at the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic Valery Kolchenko and others, discussed issues of historiography of ancient monuments and archaeological finds associated with Christianity in Kyrgyzstan, features of Christianity in Central Asia in the pre-Islamic period, the influence of the Silk Road on the spread of Christianity, history of the Catholic Church in Kyrgyzstan in the past and present and many. etc.

Students of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic Faculty took part in the discussions.