Industry and mineral resources minister Gongoryn Damdinnam announced the scheme on Monday: even dates serve plates ending in even digits, odd dates the rest, from 4 to 15 August.
The stated aim, in Kommersant’s rendering: “accessibility and sustainable distribution of fuel among all consumers”.
The window closes two days before COP17 opens in Ulaanbaatar on 17 August with a plate-based traffic regime of its own. Supply, on the official account, is moving: MONTSAME put August imports at more than 270,000 tonnes, including 49,280 tonnes of Russian AI-92, and 5,160 tonnes of AI-92 crossed by rail over the weekend. A first consignment of Chinese aviation fuel has reached the Zamyn-Üüd crossing, on a CentralAsia.media relay. Against the last hard reserve number, 17 days of AI-92 as of 31 July per The Insider, August is the month the storage argument stops being abstract.
Kyrgyzstan’s coping is administrative too. First deputy prime minister Daniyar Amangeldiyev chaired a cabinet session on fuel on Monday evening; the published readout carries directives on reserves, delivery schedules and coordination, and no numbers. The countable part sits at the pump: 24.kg calculated on Tuesday that Bishkek petrol costs nearly double the Kazakh price.
Behind both capitals stands the same supply line. Kyrgyzstan’s runs on the deal announced 31 July: 100,000 tonnes of Russian fuel a month through the end of 2026, about 1.2 million tonnes annualized against consumption of 1.6 to 2 million, at exchange prices. Mongolia’s runs on an exemption for intergovernmental contracts whose prices, since Rosneft moved from a fixed $705 a tonne to exchange-linked terms in July, are no longer fixed either.