Most of the Romanians in Kyrgyzstan come from the regions of Bessarabia, the Hertsa region and Northern Bukovina, all of which used to be part of Romania, but also from the Odesa and Zakarpattia Oblasts of modern-day Ukraine and the former Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, where important Romanian communities live.
The Romanian minority of Kyrgyzstan arrived to this country through several migration waves.
Some Romanians migrated to modern Kazakhstan after being promised lands by the Russian authorities, with some posteriorly returning while others staying.
Others migrated as military personnel, artisans, workers or civil servants.
The second wave occurred as a result of the Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, after which many Romanians which were initially taken to Kazakhstan and Siberia migrated to the Kyrgyz SSR.