Heritage Protection Service
Office of the Governor of Irad
Heritage Protection Service
State Register of Monuments of History and Culture
State Emblem of Irad
Attention! Kara-Suu Canyon mouth: excavation site closed to visitors, no photography (permit No. 07/2026) · Rabat-i-Safed winter hours from 1 November: 10:00-16:00 · Finds of church property made before 1992 must be declared within ten days · Drones prohibited over Cathedral Hill, Iyık Janyl

Leadership

The Heritage Protection Service is part of the Office of the Governor. It is headed by a Director, who has a first deputy and a deputy director; the open-air museums and the Iyık Janyl office report to the Director.

Navruz Khudoiberdiev

Navruz Khudoiberdiev

Director of the Heritage Protection Service · since 2010

Archaeologist, Talas State University. Led the works at the Caravanserai of Rabat-i-Safed for the 2014 Silk Roads listing.

The Director chairs the sessions on entries in the State Register, signs excavation permits and the Service's orders, and represents the Service in the World Heritage management plan for the Church of St. Janyl.

Personal reception

First Thursday of the month, 14:00–17:00, by appointment at the reception, +996-39-3-22-41-17.

Deputies and officials

First Deputy Director

The State Register, protection zones and works on monuments; the Old City of Talas

Reception: Tuesdays 10:00–12:00, room 5

Deputy Director

Archaeology, excavation permits, declared finds and the store of finds

Reception: Wednesdays 10:00–12:00, room 3

Chief Curator of the open-air museums

The Caravanserai of Rabat-i-Safed and the open archaeological zones

Structure

Register department

Keeps the State Register, prepares entries and changes of category, issues extracts (form HPS-1) and protection-zone certificates.

Tel. +996-39-3-22-41-21

Works and protection zones department

Approves repairs and building on monuments and in protection zones (form HPS-3) and inspects the works.

Tel. +996-39-3-22-41-22

Archaeology and finds department

Excavation permits (form HPS-2), season reports, declared finds (form HPS-5) and the valuation of finds.

Tel. +996-39-3-22-41-18

Open-air museums

The Caravanserai of Rabat-i-Safed: tickets, guides, school groups and upkeep of the site.

Tel. +996-39-3-22-41-30

Iyık Janyl office

World Heritage site management on Cathedral Hill and the Ruins of Old Iyık Janyl, together with the archeparchy; monuments of the Lower Naryn.

Tel. +996-39-6-22-37-40