A great thinker and philosophist who was born in Barshon in Issyk-Kul area and invented a world map which marked the lake as the center of the world...
Waging non-stopping bloody wars during 35 years Tamerlan created the huge empire starching from Volga river to Gang, and from Tien-Shan mountain kingdom to Bosporus.
Nikolai Mihailovich Przhevalskiy has done a number of trips to Chinese Kunlun and Alashan mountains. Buried on the shore of Issyk-Kul lake in Kyrgyzstan.