Hospital Street in Logvinenko
Old-timers surely remember that this street was originally named Hospital Street because here, on the outskirts of the city, at Kazarmen Square, above the current Moscow Street, the first and only hospital with 23 beds was opened in 1913 before the revolution.
It begins at T. Kulatov Street and stretches to Lenin Avenue, where it is interrupted by Panfilov Park. From Frunze Street, it continues to the Big Chuy Canal.
The section of this street from the beginning to the railway line was built up with individual residential houses in the 1950s.
The eastern part of Kazarmen Square, or rather, the vacant lot, began to be developed from the end of the 1920s. The first building to appear here was a two-story medical school building, established in 1926 - now the Order of the Red Banner of Labor Medical College. In 1932, a two-story bathhouse building with 124 places was commissioned at the corner of Demyan Bedny Street, which operated for more than 45 years.
In 1940, a three-story dental school building was erected, which later became one of the departments of the Kyrgyz Medical Institute (Architect G. X. Saakyan). In this same building, from 1940 to 1966, worked the founder of the department of pathological anatomy of the institute, honored figure of science of the Kyrgyz SSR, Professor Boris Fedorovich Malyshev, as noted by the memorial plaque on the building. During the Great Patriotic War, the Institute of Biochemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences, headed by Academician A. N. Bakh, also operated here.
Behind Panfilov Park, between Frunze Street and the 50th Anniversary of the Kyrgyz SSR Avenue, is the VLKSM sewing factory, which was commissioned in 1932.
At the corner of Toktogul Street stands an old two-and-a-half-story building. A memorial plaque affixed to it states: "In this house in 1919 was located the headquarters of the First Pishpek Soviet Regiment, commanded by Logvinenko Y. N."
In April 1934, Hospital Street was renamed after Y. I. Logvinenko - one of the active fighters for Soviet power in Semirechye and Kyrgyzstan. In September 1918, commanding the 1st Pishpek Soviet Regiment, he participated in battles on the Northern Semirechye Front, and in December of the same year in suppressing the Belyvodsk kulak-SR uprising.
In 1919, Y. N. Logvinenko was appointed commander of the garrison of the city of Pishpek, later becoming the military commissar of the Semirechye tract, and worked in the Uplnarkomprod. In 1933, after graduating from the Central Asian State University, he fell seriously ill and soon died.
Y. N. Logvinenko was buried in the oak park next to the grave of the Red Guards who died fighting against the Belyvodsk rebels.
In the post-war period, a complex of hospital buildings grew on the street, including the special clinic building. In 1956, a two-story Radio House was commissioned, which later became the House of Cinema. The Union of Cinematographers, established in 1962 and consisting of over 80 members, also settled here. Among the members of the Union are prominent directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, and artists: the film laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR, writer Ch. Aitmatov, State Prize laureates of the USSR director B. Shamshiev, director A. Vidugiris, operator M. Musaev, State Prize laureates of the Kyrgyz SSR named after Toktogul T. Okeev, K. Kadyraliev, B. Kydykeeva, and Lenin Komsomol Prize laureates of Kyrgyzstan S. Chokmorov and M. Zhyrgalbaev, among other masters of cinema in the republic.
At the corner of Moscow Street, in a two-story building, is the Museum of Military Glory named after I. V. Panfilov, which opened in 1969. In 1979, builders erected a new building for the music and choreography school, as well as a five-story building for the republican military commissariat. Right next to the railway line, in early 1981, four laboratories of the Institute of Epidemiology, Microbiology, and Hygiene with a 100-bed inpatient facility were located in a newly built five-story building. The fifth floor of the building housed the Department of Hygiene of the Medical Institute.
Losev D. S., Kochkunov A. S. What the Streets Tell
Streets of Bishkek
