Originally Posted by
barry lloyd
Kulverstukas:
I don't want to derail this important thread, but I've travelled widely in the FSU, though not to Bishkek. I've never heard of such a community before. Does this suggest that the people in this community worked at the airport?
It's not country-wide, it's usually local community. Possibly, in USSR time this patches was provided for airport workers (see, it's just 400 sq.m each) for growing fruits and vegetables. Usually it was in form of non-pofit cooperative. I think that if you put
"aeroflot village" in google map you will find a thousands of them.