The spectacle of a theater in a small town is very unusual, but in Kyrgyzstan there are such in Karakol, and even in Talas. What to do - the regional status obliges. The Naryn Musical Drama Theater named after Muratbek Ryskulov was founded, it seems, together with the region (in 1938), and the building is clearly late Soviet. If not the theater itself, then the square in front of it is popular with the locals