IN MEMORY OF THE POET-PATRIOT BOKONBAEV
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Upper Street was the last street before the railway line. Beyond that, towards the line and beyond, stretched the steppe. Apparently, it was named for the reason that it is upper, i.e., the farthest in the southern part of the city. Stretching from east to west from the Alamedin River to the present-day Krasnoznamennaya, Upper Street was developed with individual houses during these years, many of which were made of adobe. However, by the late 1930s and 1940s, the first two-story houses began to appear. It was only in the post-war 1960s and 1970s that three-, four-, and five-story buildings started to be constructed.
In August 1944, Upper Street was renamed Joomart Bokonbaev Street (1910-1944), in honor of the famous Kyrgyz poet and playwright. The poet's creative journey began with the poem "To the Poor Who Received Land" (1927). Since then, his poems have been continuously published in the pages of newspapers and magazines of the republic. The poet published his first collection of poems "The Beginning of Labor" in 1933.
In the 1930s and 1940s, he created dramatic works such as "Altyn Kyz," "Kargasha," and wrote the libretto for the opera "Toktogul," along with other authors for the opera "Ai-Churek." In 1941, J. Bokonbaev voluntarily joined the Red Army, where he served as the editor of the divisional newspaper "For the Motherland, Forward!" During his time at the front, he wrote patriotic poems such as "Death and Honor," "The Strength of a Brave Man is Stronger than the Fortress of the Steppe," and others, along with a number of poems.
J. Bokonbaev published about 20 books of poems, poems, and dramatic works.
With each passing year, the street becomes more beautiful. Its reconstruction continues, and it has started to grow upwards. In 1972, the microdistrict "Vostok-6" began to be developed near the Alamedin River. The first five-story residential building was erected in 1974, the year of the 50th anniversary of the Kyrgyz SSR and the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan, and just a year later, ten multi-story large-panel buildings were raised. In 1975, more than 1,000 people moved into them. New buildings continue to rise. One of them - a nine-story, 108-apartment building - appeared between Shopokov Street and "Pravda." The relief pattern of the balcony railings and the original coloring of the residential building attract attention. Another - a nine-story tower - has risen at the corner of Soviet Street. Extensive construction is underway on the street behind the Young Guard Avenue. A number of multi-story buildings have been erected here.
On Bokonbaev Street, there are the editorial offices of the newspaper "Kyrgyzstan Madeniyati" (which moved in 1986 to the building of the former Union of Writers of Kyrgyzstan), established in 1967, the magazine "El Agartuu," and the city library No. 15 named after Togolok Moldo. At the corner of Panfilov Street, in a multi-story building, is the design institute "Kyrgyzkolkhozproekt," which was later transformed into the state institute of engineering surveys - KyrgyzGIIZ, and the consultation point "Marriage and Family."
Losev D. S., Kochkunov A. S. What the Streets Tell
Streets of Bishkek
