ABOUT THE NEW NAMES OF THE STREETS OF BISHKEK
The organization of street, square, and park names in the city began shortly after the civil war. The names of representatives of the royal dynasty, members of the royal administration, religious figures, and other odious names disappeared from the city plan. Streets began to bear the names of participants in the October Socialist Revolution and the civil war, heroes of the Patriotic War, state and party figures, writers and artists, scientists, and other outstanding individuals.
In 1924, 16 streets were renamed at once. Church Street became Karl Marx Street, Nikolayevskaya - Ya. M. Sverdlov Street, Gryaznovskaya was named after Demyan Bedny, Pushkinskaya became Krasnooktyabrskaya, Soldier Street - Krasnoarmeyskaya, Meshchanskaya - Kyrgyzskaya, Vasilievskaya - Pervomayskaya, Uyezdnaya - Koshchiyina, Georgievskaya - Pushkinskaya, Konstantinovskaya - Maxim Gorky Street, Iskakovskaya - Pioneer Street, Bazaar Street - Soviet Street, Merchant Street - Civil Street, and so on.
On the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1927, several more streets received new names. Judge Street became M. V. Frunze Street, Shamusovskaya - Shevchenko, and so on.
In 1931, many streets of the Workers' Town received new names. In 1934, Hospital Street was renamed Logvinenko Street - after an active participant in the October Revolution and the civil war; in 1935, Koshchiyina Street became S. M. Kirov Street, and in 1937, Tatar Street was renamed A. S. Pushkin Street.
In 1938, the newspaper "Soviet Kyrgyzstan" published a decision of the city executive committee on the renaming and naming of 86 unnamed streets and alleys in its August 8 issue. Kolpakovskaya Street was named after the Soviet geologist, academician A. P. Karpinsky, Lagernaya became Engels Street, Novaya - Kalinin Street, Tashkent Street - Lenin Street, Ilyinskaya - Michurin Street, Cemetery Street - Herzen Street, Krasnoryadskaya - Kuibyshev Street, Vernenskaya - Alma-Ata Street, Civil Street - Stalin Street. Other streets were also renamed. 49 unnamed streets received names.
In 1942, Sadovaya Street was named after the Hero of the Soviet Union, General I. V. Panfilov, and the park through which it passes became Panfilov Park. In 1944, Upper Street was renamed after Joombart Bokonbaev - a poet and playwright who tragically died. In connection with the 30th anniversary of the Komsomol, Beregovaya Street was renamed Duyshenkul Shopokov Street - a Hero of the Soviet Union, and Atbashinskaya became Young Guard Street.
In honor of the outstanding folk akyn and composer Muratala Kurunkeeva (1860-1949), North Street has borne his name since 1949; in the same year, Alamidinskaya Street was renamed Musa Bayetov Street (1902-1949), a People's Artist of the Kyrgyz SSR.
Significant changes in street names were made following the well-known Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated September 13, 1957. New names appeared instead of old ones, with most of the 18 renamed streets receiving names of geographical points and various objects such as Kum-Aryk, Tyulek, Journal, etc. That same year, streets named after A. I. Ivanitsyn - the first leader of the Bolsheviks in Pishpek, "Intergelpo" - a Czechoslovak industrial cooperative, and Julius Fucik - a national hero of Czechoslovakia were established.
In 1961, the park between Pavlodar, Yaroslavl, and Beregovaya Streets was named Student Park; the square between Kirov, Pushkin, and Pervomayskaya Streets received the name Central Square, the square on Moscow Street became Togo Lok Mold's Square, a folk akyn of Kyrgyzstan; the square near the Government House became Central; the station square - named after Frunze; the square near the city executive committee building received the name Soviet. The section of Kropotkin Street between Soviet Square and Frunze Street became Frunze Boulevard. The streets Novo-Sovetskaya, Novo-Panfilova, Novo-Oktabrskaya, continuing the main street, became respectively Soviet, Panfilova, and Krasnooktyabrskaya. Stalin Street was renamed XXII Party Congress Street, Stalingradskaya - Communist Street, Stalabadskaya - Bratskaya. That same year, Fergana Street was renamed Gagarin Street - after the first cosmonaut in the world.
In May 1962, in connection with the 50th anniversary of the first issue of the newspaper "Pravda," Kuznechnaya Street was renamed Pravda Street. In 1968, the name of Tabaldy Zhukeev (Pudovkin-1882-1930) - the first Kyrgyz revolutionary, a member of the RSDRP since 1905, and an active participant in the revolution and civil war, was immortalized. Five years later, in 1973, the city council executive committee renamed Tokmakskaya Street to Urkui Salieva Street (1910-1934), a rural activist, collective farm organizer, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kyrgyz ASSR, who was killed by a class enemy; Pavlodar Street received the name of writer and playwright Kasymaly Jantošev (1904-1968); Igar Street became Laszlo Mesaroš Street (1905-1945), a Hungarian artist-sculptor who worked in Frunze from 1936 to 1938 and did much for the development of visual arts in the republic. Predgornaya and Avtobazovskaya Streets received new names, honoring state and party figures of the republic Koybagarov and Sadygaliev. The name of academician K. I. Skryabin - organizer and first chairman of the Presidium of the Kyrgyz branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR was immortalized. The former Topographic Street was named after him.
In the year of the 50th anniversary of the Kyrgyz SSR and the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan in 1974, the names of several more streets in the capital were revised. Soviet Street was divided into two parts. The part from the Big Chui Canal to the northern border of the city was named Baku Street. Firsova Street was renamed Karl Marx Avenue, and the existing Karl Marx Street was divided into two parts - the eastern part from Parkovaya Street to Shopokov became Atay Ogonbaev Street (1903-1949), a folk akyn, while the western part from Togo Lok Mold Street to Fucik Street became Muratbek Ryskulov Street (1909-1974), a People's Artist of the USSR.
Vernenskaya Street was named after Fyodor Vasilyevich Firsov (1896-1958) - a participant in the October Revolution, an old communist, and a party and state figure of the republic; Patrice Lumumba Street (1925-1961), a figure of the national liberation movement in the Congo, was renamed M. Gorky Street, Polotskaya - Patrice Lumumba Street, while the existing M. Gorky Street was renamed Ashirbai Koenkozov Street (1907-1943) - a hero of the Patriotic War; Kyrgyz Street became Abdykadyra Orozbekov Street - the first chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Kyrgyz ASSR. That same year, XXII Party Congress Street was divided into two parts. From Cholponatin Street to Fucik Street, it became Lenin Avenue (Lenin Prospect); from Y. Fucik Street to the western border of the city - XXII Party Congress Street. The former Lenin Avenue was renamed 50 Years of the Kyrgyz SSR Avenue. At that time, Zavodskaya Street was renamed Bibisara Beishenalievoy Street.
In the second half of the 1970s, Zaporizhzhya Street was named after D. I. Shcherbakov (1893-1966), a geographer, academician, and researcher of Kyrgyz nature; Kolkhoznaya was renamed M. N. Lushchikhin Street (1905-1978), an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR, the creator of a new breed of sheep; Naberezhnaya became A. Maldybaev Street (1906-1978), a People's Artist of the USSR and composer. Polar Street was renamed J. Sadaev Street (1893-1937), one of the active fighters for Soviet power in Kyrgyzstan, later a prominent Soviet and party figure of the republic; Nameless Street became B. D. Isakiev Street (1897-1937), a prominent party and Soviet figure. From 1930 to 1933, he was the secretary of the Kyrgyz regional party committee and later the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kyrgyz ASSR. Streets were also named after People's Artists of the Kyrgyz SSR A. Botaliev, V. Ya. Vasilyev, and III. Termechikov, scientists - Professor G. A. Sukhomlinov, academicians of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR M. M. Adyshev and I.K. Akhunbaev, writer K. Malikov, composer V. G. Fere.
In June 1980, Prikumskaya Street was renamed V. F. Kazakov Street - a People's Artist of the Kyrgyz SSR; Klyuchevaya became Professor B. M. Zima Street, a historian; Karaganda Street was named after composer M. Abdrayev.
At different times, the names of V. I. Lenin's associates were immortalized in street names: V. V. Borovsky, A. V. Lunacharsky, G. K. Ordzhonikidze, M. S. Uritsky, S. G. Shaumyan. The names of great Russian revolutionary democrats V. G. Belinsky, N. G. Chernyshevsky, N. A. Dobrolyubov are also commemorated. There are streets named after outstanding figures of communist and labor parties G. M. Dimitrov, K. Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thälmann.
The list of streets in the city is also adorned with the names of Soviet commanders - G. I. Kotovsky, A. Ya. Parkhomenko, Sergey Lazo, V. Shorin, N. A. Shchors. The names of heroes of the Great Patriotic War are immortalized (in addition to those mentioned earlier) in the names of streets named after N. Ya. Ananyev, I. F. Gastello, A. M. Matrosov, Oleg Koshovoy, Cholponbay Tuleberdiev, Timur Frunze. The noble work of Soviet pilots - fearless conquerors of the blue ocean - is also captured in the names of streets named after the first Heroes of the Soviet Union in the country S. A. Levanovsky, P. D. Osipenko, A. K. Serov, V. P. Chkalov.
The list of streets commemorating the names of outstanding Russian and Soviet scientists is extensive. Among them are A. N. Bakh, V. V. Vil'yame, N. E. Zhukovsky, P. A. Kropotkin, I. V. Kurchatov, M. V. Lomonosov, D. I. Mendeleev, I. I. Mechnikov, A. F. Mozhaysky, I. P. Pavlov, N. M. Przhevalsky, N. A. Semashko, I. M. Sechenov, K. A. Timiryazev, E. K. Fedorov, K. E. Tsiolkovsky, O. Yu. Schmidt; figures of science and culture of Kyrgyzstan - M. Ryskulov, B. Beishenaliev, B. Jamgerchinov, Togo Lok Mold, Toktogul Satylganov, Prof. B. Zima, and others.
Many streets bear the names of outstanding Russian and Soviet writers, composers, artists, including representatives of the peoples of the USSR: S. Aini, M. Alybaev, A. P. Borodin, A. S. Griboedov, Dzhambul, F. M. Dostoevsky, I. A. Krylov, V. I. Lebedev-Kumach, M. Yu. Lermontov, V. V. Mayakovsky, P. M. Musorgsky, Musa Jalil, N. A. Nekrasov, I. S. Nikitin, Osmonkul Bolebalaev, N. A. Ostrovsky, A. II. Radishchev, II. E. Repin, M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, A. S. Serafimovich, II. S. Turgenev, Alymkul Usenbaev, P. I. Tchaikovsky, A. P. Chekhov, S. A. Chuykov, Shota Rustaveli, A. V. Shchusev.
A number of streets bear the names of outstanding state, party, and economic figures: II. F. Krivonos, I. A. Likhachev, V. A. Malyshev; outstanding Russian commanders P. I. Bagration, M. I. Kutuzov, K. I. Minin, P. S. Nakhimov, D. M. Pozharsky, A. V. Suvorov; Decembrists P. I. Pestel, Ya. F. Ryleev; heroes of popular uprisings - S. T. Razin, E. I. Pugachev.
The city is growing rapidly, and new streets are appearing. The toponymic commission created under the city executive committee has taken on all the work of organizing the names of streets, avenues, trade points, public catering establishments, etc. In 1989, the city authorities decided to rename about 200 streets and alleys, many of which were unnamed. Work in this direction continues.
Losev D. S., Kochkunov A. S. What the Streets Tell
Streets of Bishkek. About old names
