Kara-Su

Kara-Su

 

a city (settlement until 1960) and the administrative center of Kara-Su Raion, Osh Oblast, Kirghiz SSR. Situated in the Osh-Kara-Su oasis on the Frunze-Osh highway. Railroad station on the Andizhan-Dzhalal-Abad line; a 22-km branch line connects it with Osh. Population, 16, 100 (1970). Kara-Su is the site of a cotton gin, an oil-extraction plant, auto repair plants, and a milling combine.