Yanev Stepan Yeremeyevich
Yanev Stepan Yeremeevich was born in Kyrgyzstan in the village of Nizhnyaya Alarcha in 1929.
His father was Bulgarian and his mother was Gagauz; they arrived in Central Asia due to the Stolypin reform in the early 20th century from Bessarabia. When they were still infants, their families traveled by oxen, first to Kazakhstan (there are two Bulgarian-Gagauz villages near Pavlodar), and from there several families moved to Kyrgyzstan (to the Maevka area, where a few people of Bulgarian-Gagauz descent still live).
Stepan did not know his father Yeremey, as he was repressed during the Stalin era. Stepan graduated from school in Maevka in 1946, and after finishing the economic institute in Tashkent in 1951, he returned to Kyrgyzstan, where he worked in the management structures of the light industry of the Council of Ministers and the Council of National Economy. From 1963 to 1967, he served as the director of the October 40th garment factory in Frunze. Under his management, the factory achieved outstanding economic results and became well-known throughout the Union, for which S. E. Yanev received an award and in 1967 was appointed director of the large Kyrgyz textile combine being built in the city of Osh (HBC), where he worked until it was commissioned in 1969, for which he was awarded a state medal.
The decision to build a large cotton combine in the city of Osh was made due to the proximity of raw material resources, significantly addressing the employment issue of the local population and establishing a decent social infrastructure.
Workers from the October 40th factory and the Osh HBC loved their director; he maintained relationships with them even after being transferred to another job.
S. E. Yanev retired from the position of first deputy minister of light industry of Kazakhstan in 1990 and died in Moscow in 2002.
