Mailuu-Suu

Mailuussuu ( Kyrgyz Майлуусуу: Oily water; Russian Майли - Сай ) is an industrial city with about 23,000 inhabitants (2009 ) in the region Jalalabad in southern Kyrgyzstan, 24 kilometers east of the border with Uzbekistan. Since the beginning of the 20th century here was funded oil, which explains the place name. Around the same time Radiobaryt deposits were discovered here. Between 1946 and 1968, uranium was mined in the area surrounding the city. Here was also the further processing. The uranium ore from other neighboring reserves and from the GDR, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria were processed here.

For the work in the mines and build the factories during World War II Volga German, Crimean Tatars and later other, the Soviet regime deported unwanted groups of people here.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of uranium mining and uranium processing there, the city has seen hard times: since the end of the uranium industry, it is for the majority of the local population is not much work. The worst legacy of the Soviet era, however, are the many ( 36 in total) not secured storage of uranium waste on the steep tectonically unstable and mountain slopes above the town. According to a study published in October 2006 study by the Blacksmith Institute from New York Mailuussuu making it one of the ten worst polluted places in the world. Substantial investments are needed to secure this overburden and by-product storage. The World Bank financed since 2003, the first phase of such a program.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Vitus Nagorny (* 1978), German football player