10 Som Construction of Yurta

Issued as part of the National Bank's ongoing program documenting traditional Kyrgyz material culture, this piece commemorates the construction of the yurt — specifically the process of assembly, which in nomadic practice was a communal act governed by precise social convention. A skilled family could raise a full yurt in under an hour. The knowledge was oral, passed through demonstration rather than instruction, and the Soviet period very nearly severed that transmission entirely.