Ancient Kyrgyzs (gegun, giangun of ancient Chinese sources) lived in the Eastern Pritianshan. At the end of the II AD or in the III AD part of the Kyrgyz (Eastern Kyrgyz) for some reason separated (or was separated) and by the will of fate ended up in the north, and settled in the interfluves of Abakan and Kem (Yenisei), in the Koibal steppe. Another part of the ancient Kyrgyz (Western Kyrgyz) continued to Abakan, to the left bank of the Minusinsk steppes. At first, the center of Kyrgyz nomads was located in the Koibal steppe, where their main necropolis, the tombs of the leaders of the eastern Kyrgyz, was located on Mount Izykh-takh.
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