David Leupold It is the year 1962. Towering construction cranes stand in the dust of the Central Asian steppe under the scorching midday sun as rows of un-plastered concrete buildings grow floor by floor towards the glacier-covered mountain peaks of the Ala-Too range. Along today’s Isa Akhunbaev Street – named after a Soviet-Kyrgyz surgeon from the village of Tur-Aigir – the first prefabricated residential district in the capital of Soviet Kyrgyzstan is about to be built. Five years have passed