FROM ZAVODSKAYA TO BEISHENALIEVA
The appearance and name of the former Zavodskaya Street are associated with the years 1921-1923. During these years, the street began to be developed, and it was named so because it passed by the brewery, which now occupies an entire block. It stretches from the Ala-Archa River to Ryskulov Street.
Instead of the unremarkable houses on the eastern side of the street, multi-story residential buildings with shops on the ground floors grew in the 1960s and 1970s: the grocery store "Zhyldyz" and the shoe store "Shoe House." One of them houses the city library named after J. Turusbekov - a branch of the Central City Library named after N. K. Krupskaya. Here is located the vocational school No. 1 named after I. V. Panfilov, established in the difficult year of 1942. During its existence, the school has trained more than 15,000 qualified workers. The four-story educational building, equipped with all necessary training materials for future workers, contains production workshops.
It is interesting to note that this school was once attended by Nakaybek Alymbekov, a fitter-assembler at the "Kyrgyzavtomash" plant, who later became a Hero of Socialist Labor.
In 1974, the street was renamed Bibi Sara Beishenaliev Street - after the ballerina, soloist of the Kyrgyz State Order of Lenin Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet.
Bibi Sara gifted many wonderful moments to ballet lovers not only in our capital but also to the all-Union audience.
The ballerina created more than 30 characters on stage. For her role as Aseli in the eponymous ballet by V. Vlasov in 1970, she was awarded the State Prize of the Kyrgyz SSR named after Toktogul.
A graduate of the Leningrad Choreographic School, she became an honored artist in 1947 and a people's artist of the Kyrgyz SSR in 1954. In 1958, during the second Decade of Kyrgyz Art and Literature in Moscow, she was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR.
The grateful people repeatedly elected her as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Kyrgyz SSR. For her contributions to the development of Kyrgyz art, she was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner of Labor and "Badge of Honor." The Kyrgyz State Institute of Arts bears her name. A memorial plaque has been installed on the house where she lived, on Dzerzhinsky Avenue.
Losev D. S., Kochkunov A. S. What the Streets Tell
Streets of Bishkek
