evidence: For the first time the border between the Isfara region and the Batken region, at that time known as the Kara-Kyrgyz autonomous region within the Russian Federation, was determined by a decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Bolsheviks in 1924. Back then Vorukh was not an enclave, there was a direct open territory, a road, connecting Vorukh with the rest of the Isfara region. [...] The third legal document, defining the border between the Isfara and the Batken regions, was adopted by the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR in 1947 while clarifying the discrepancies (variant readings) in determining a crossing line of the inter-republican border between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. According to the map, approved by the document and also referred to by the Main Directorate of Cartography (MCC) of the Soviet Union, Vorukh was not an enclave either and the entire territory around Vorukh, which currently belongs to our neighbors, was a part of the Tajik SSR. [...] For unknown reasons and according to the results of the commission's work, it was proposed to transfer several thousand hectares of the territory belonging to the Isfara region to the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. In return, the Kyrgyz side was supposed to use the Tortkul reservoir as an inter-republican one and assist in the irrigation of about 3.5 thousand hectares of land in the Isfara region. Nevertheless, this parity commission's protocol could not acquire legal force because the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Tajik SSR did not ratify it and rejected the document.