Assistance of the Population of Frunze to the Front During the Great Patriotic War
During the war, many vivid heroic-patriotic essays were published in the republic, revealing the military exploits of Kyrgyzstanis. The activities of theatrical groups were subordinated to the interests of defending the Motherland - 7 front brigades, which included Kyrgyz masters of arts. During the war, they gave more than 2,500 concerts at the front.
The defensive and organizational work of the city and district councils of the capital was of great importance in leading the collection of funds for the country's defense, which arose spontaneously among various layers of the population. They were driven by a noble patriotic feeling. Thus, in early July 1941, workers from leather factory No. 1, including Pluzhnikov, Kanin, Rakhman, and others, donated their five-day earnings to the defense fund, and a pioneer from the 7th school, Galya Panfilova, contributed two thousand rubles in cash. At the end of July and the beginning of August 1941, rallies and meetings were held everywhere, where people expressed their desire to participate in the creation of a people's defense fund.
The masters of the Frunze sewing factory, Dyachenko and Baidary, contributed 600 rubles each to the defense fund, and the Bishkek Turksib station contributed 2,149 rubles.
The collective of the Ministry of Land contributed 3,854 rubles to the state bank, and the regional land department contributed 1,076 rubles. In total, one million 641 thousand rubles were contributed from the city and the Frunze region, of which the mechanical plant contributed 8,513 rubles, and a housewife from quarter No. 40 of the Proletarian (Lenin) district contributed 11,165 rubles. Additionally, around 8 million rubles in cash and 14.2 million rubles in bonds were transferred from the personal savings of city residents for the defense of the country. A total of 112,683 warm items were collected and sent to the defense fund, along with 20 trains with gifts for besieged Leningrad, which included M. I. Panfilova, a deputy of the city council, as part of the delegation accompanying the train. The collection of funds for the defense fund continued from 1942 to 1944.
Another source of replenishing the country's defense fund was the voluntary and unpaid labor of the city's residents during overtime hours, on Sundays, and on holidays. This mass movement involved workers, intellectuals, and youth. One of the forms of assistance to the front was the collection of funds for the armament of the Red Army, for the construction of the tank columns "Komsomolets of Kyrgyzstan" and "Soviet Kyrgyzstan." During the war, more than 186 million rubles were deposited in the state bank, of which about 142 million rubles were for the construction of tanks and airplanes.
On May 4, 1943, a letter from the front was published in the newspaper "Soviet Kyrgyzstan" from the commander of the unit, Colonel Gromadskiy, reporting that the tank "Soviet Kyrgyzstan" had made a combat march, breaking through the front lines for more than 100 km into enemy territory, liberating many settlements, two cities, capturing 100 locomotives, about 100 wagons, many vehicles, and 8 warehouses with ammunition and food, as well as destroying a large number of enemy personnel and equipment.
At the beginning of 1942, the population of the capital sent 12,022 parcels weighing a total of 267,785 kg to the active army. This included 819 parcels to the 8th Guards Panfilov Division. All this connected the soldiers, commanders, and political workers of the active army with the population of the capital of Kyrgyzstan through a living thread.
The commissioning of evacuated industries from the front-line regions of the USSR in the city of Frunze in 1942
