Brendan Whyte wrote:
"Someone was asking where the 2 villages on the Kaz-Uzb border were,
that declarted independence as a protest over the boundary
demarcation there.
I have been unable to locate those villages on Soviet 1:500,000
topographic mapping, but they may well have changed names since then,
as several villages in the region are called Communism or 30 October,
etc. (...)"

Bagys is still called Bagys in the Russian articles that I have read
on the two villages on the Internet so far. Turkestan is sometimes
called Turkestanec. I get the impression that Bagys is a small
village, and that Turkestan is the name of the nearby kolkhoz.

The problem seems to have started when part of the Bostandyk rayon
was transfered from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan. The Uzbeks believed the
area now disputed was in that rayon, but according to the Kazakhs, it
was in the Saryagas (s+caron) rayon. For what I have read it seems
that the inhabitants all, or nearly all, were Kazakh nationals. If
they became Uzbek citizens after independence of the two Soviet
republics I don't know.

Bagys can be found, according to one source, just off the main road
from Tashkent to Simkent (S+caron). So due north of Tashkent, or
maybe a little to the east on the boundary, I would say.

Peter S.