Yusuf Has Hajip Tomb is located on Sports Road opposite to Kashgar Mountaineering Association.
Yusuf Has Hajip, a Uygur poet,scholar and thinker, was born in Balashagun in Karakhanid Dynasty, and later immigrated to Kashgar.
He wrote the long narrative phillosophic poem Kut-adku Bilik (The Knowledge of Happiness). After he died, he was buried in Badige, outside the city of Kashgar. His tomb was moved to its present site when it was threatened by the flooding of the Toman River.

