Location and Organization
The Dordoy market stretches for more than a kilometer on the north-eastern outskirts of Bishkek, just within the bypass highway that skirts the city in the north. Legally, it is an agglomeration of several independent markets adjacent to each other, but as there are no fences, the borders between components are not particularly noticeable. According to a 2007 city atlas, the component markets are:
- Ak-Suu
- Vostok ('East')
- Sever ('North')
- Muras-Sport
- Alkanov i K ('Alkanov & Co.)
- Evropa ('Europe')
- Kerben
- Kitay ('China')
- Zhonghai (which formally is considered a separate market from Dordoy)
Most of the market is built of double-stacked shipping containers. Typically, the lower container is used as a shop, while the upper one is used for additional storage. According to a 2005 newspaper report, there were some 6,000 to 7,000 containers in the bazaar; around 20,000 people worked there (as vendors, security, service personnel).
The containers, organized in dozens of rows, form streets and plazas of a sort. Smaller buildings between the blocks of containers house restaurants, administrative offices, toilets, hotels, and other ancillary structures.
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