AT THE SITE OF THE BARRACKS...
Togolok Moldov Street is rightly considered a sports street. Its main attractions are the V. I. Lenin Sports Palace and the "Spartak" Stadium. The Sports Palace is a unique structure adorned with original elements of external and internal design. It serves as a center for sports and various concert-theatrical performances, with a hall that accommodates up to 3,000 people.
The grand opening of the Palace took place on November 2, 1974. It was inaugurated by the former Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR A. N. Kosygin. On the same day, a ceremonial meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan and the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR was held in the Palace, attended by party, Soviet, public organizations, and representatives of the Soviet Army, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Kyrgyz SSR and the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan.
Opposite the Sports Palace is the "Spartak" Stadium. It was built in 1941. After reconstruction carried out in 1953 according to the design of architect V. Marukov, the stadium area was expanded, creating a sports complex. The main sports arena accommodates 25,000 people.
From Moscow Street, where it begins, to the 50th Anniversary of the Kyrgyz SSR Avenue, Togolok Moldov Street is lined with multi-story residential, public, and administrative buildings. Among the first, a three-story building of the medical institute was constructed in 1939 (architect F. P. Steblin). The institute was opened that same year. Scientists from Moscow, Leningrad, and Tashkent participated in its organization: S. K. Lobyntsev, M. E. Volsky, O. A. Dudinoff, A. L. Brudny, I. P. Kevorkov, A. F. Yakovlev, A. A. Severov, B. L. Elbert, B. F. Malyshev, Z. I. Igemberdiev, A. B. Slonim, I. K. Akhunbaev, and many others. During the Great Patriotic War, many prominent scholars - medics evacuated to Frunze taught there. In 1963, the institute received a new educational building on the street named after the 50th Anniversary of October. Mass multi-story construction on the street began in the post-war period. Here, three-story buildings of the Soviet Trade Technical School and the Engineering Technical School were erected (both built according to the designs of architect E. Pisarsky). Multi-story buildings of the machine accounting station of the Central Statistical Administration of the Kyrgyz SSR (architect S. Andreev), the republican computing center, and a five-story administrative building of "Kyrgyzselkhoztechnika" were constructed. Next to the "Russia" cinema, the first planetarium in Central Asia was erected, equipped with equipment created in the GDR.
Before the October Revolution, and even in the first decades of Soviet power, a wide wasteland lay where this street is now, naturally separating the city from the settlement of Dunganovka, which emerged in 1882 when more than 200 Dungan families - refugees from China settled here.
If you look at the plan of Pishpek from 1916, it is clear that on the southern outskirts of the city, right in the middle between Dunganovka and the city, barracks are marked, and therefore the entire area adjacent to them was called Barracks Square, and to the north of it - Barracks Street.
At the site where the Ministry of Health and the hospital complex with the buildings of the Research Institute of Obstetrics and Pediatrics are currently located, there was a military hospital before the revolution, and accordingly, the square (now Togolok Moldov Park) was called Hospital Square. Here, in 1928, the first two-story building - a surgical hospital (architect A. P. Zenkov) was erected. Extensive construction on the street began in the late 1930s, and it was finally formed in the 1960s.
In one of the old two-story houses built in the early 1930s, behind the planetarium, the Frunze Art School was located for a long time, established in 1948. The first graduation took place in 1953. 26 specialists in pedagogy, decorators, and theatrical artists were graduated. In 1981, the building was demolished, and the school received new premises beyond the railway line.
From 1938 to 1975, the street was named after K. E. Voroshilov. Then it became Sports Street. In June 1960, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Togolok Moldov (Baimbet Abdrakhmanov), it was named after him - Togolok Moldov Street (1860-1942), a prominent akyn-writer, one of the founders of Kyrgyz Soviet literature, who warmly welcomed the arrival of October and actively participated in the struggle to strengthen Soviet power. In 1922, he wrote the poem "Instruction to the Poor," where he urged his people to cherish the conquests of the revolution. This poem was one of the first artistic works of Kyrgyz literature, published in 1925 in Moscow by the Central Publishing House of the Peoples of the USSR.
Losev D. S., Kochkunov A. S. What the Streets Tell
Streets of Bishkek
