A new settlement in Turkmenistan was named Galkynysh

The new, modern settlement built on the territory of Bereket etrap of Balkan velayat was named "Galkynysh" (Revival). A resolution to this effect was adopted by the country's Majlis Milli Gengesh (parliament), the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported today.

"The decision reads: "To categorize the new settlement created in the Bereket etrap of Balkan velayat as a village and to name it Galkynysh and henceforth to call it Galkynysh settlement of the Bereket etrap of Balkan velayat," the decision reads.

The document also abolished the Gulmach gengeshlik of the Bereket etrap of Balkan velayat and transferred its villages Gulmach, Gamakly, Isgender, Ok and Oylegushluk to the administrative subordination of the Galkynysh settlement.