STREET OF BISHKEK
For each of us, our homeland begins with dear places - with the house where we were born and lived, with the school where we studied and grew up, with the street where our journey in life began.
And no matter what these streets are like - big or small, central or peripheral, lush with greenery or devoid of a single tree - they are dear to us and remain in our memory forever.
Frunze is growing rapidly. The old streets are transforming beyond recognition, new neighborhoods and blocks of new houses are emerging.
The capital has over 619.9 thousand people (as of January 12, 1989). And all of them love their city, proud of its revolutionary and labor glory. The history of the streets of the city makes every resident feel a personal responsibility for the improvement and order in their hometown. The names of the streets and houses foster a sense of strong human friendship and mutual respect.
The city is its streets. Where did their names come from, what do their names signify? What events took place there? The history of the street names is the history of the city, the republic.
Joyful, beautiful, full of labor rhythm, the peaceful streets of the garden city are becoming more beautiful and renewed every day. One of the bright manifestations of the love of Soviet people for their native city is the mass Saturday and Sunday workdays for its improvement and greening. The struggle of its residents for the title of "House of Exemplary Order and Living Conditions" is widely spreading.
It is practically impossible to describe all the streets of the city, to make hundreds of excursions into history, and to tell about the people and events in honor of which they are named. After all, there are more than 850 streets and alleys in the city. Our story is about some of the most interesting of them, mainly the old ones that appeared even before the October Socialist Revolution, as well as some newer ones.
Losev D. S., Kochkunov A. S. What the streets tell.
Streets of Bishkek
