March 21· Holiday
Nooruz
In Kyrgyzstan Nooruz on 21 March is a day off, with sumolok, kok-boru and other horseback games and folk festivities.
In Kyrgyzstan Nooruz on 21 March is a public holiday by law — the festival of spring, plenty and the new year.
The main dish is sumolok, cooked all night in a cauldron from sprouted wheat while people sing and make wishes. Tables (dastorkon) are laid in white yurts, games such as kok-boru, horse races and wrestling are held, and akyns compete in aitysh.
The holiday
Festivities, concerts and craft exhibitions take place on Ala-Too Square in Bishkek and in every region.
Video
Photos
The Nooruz table (dastorkon) · Firespeaker / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 
Nooruz, the Kyrgyz national new year · Arturovaalina and Baidolotova Sabina / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 
Sumolok, the main Nooruz dish · Shams948 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 
A game of kok-boru · Helen Owl / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 
A Kyrgyz yurt · Vilya Shoni / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 
Kyrgyz komuzes · Incall / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kyrgyzstan: other days
- January 1New Year's Day
- January 7Orthodox Christmas
- February 23Defender of the Fatherland Day
- March 5Ak-kalpak Day
- March 8International Women's Day
- April 7Day of the People's April Revolution
- May 1Labour Day
- May 5Constitution Day
- May 9Victory Day
- May 29Armed Forces Day
- August 31Independence Day
- September 23State Language Day
- October 3Founding of the Organization of Turkic States
- November 7Days of History and Commemoration of Ancestors
- 10 Dhu al-Hijjah in the Islamic calendar — the feast of the Hajj pilgrimage; moves about 11 days earlier each yearEid al-Adha
- 1 Shawwal in the Islamic calendar — the end of the Ramadan fast; moves about 11 days earlier each yearEid al-Fitr