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Our recent geochronological study on the Taldybulak Levoberezhny gold deposit in Kyrgyz Northern Tien Shan (KNTS) received critical comments by Boris Trifonov (2016) regarding the age of dikes and its relationship with gold mineralization at the deposit. In this contribution, based on a re-evaluation of our published data, together with new geochronological, geochemical and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic data, the age of gold mineralization, magmatic and tectonic events and the relationship between dikes and mineralization at the deposit, it is proposed that the Taldybulak Levoberezhny gold deposit is a product of long-lived magmatic-hydrothermal system with multiple stages of gold mineralization from Cambrian to late Carboniferous–early Permian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]