Abdykerim Sydyk uulu, Sydykov (1889 - 1938)

Abdykerim Sydyk uulu, Sydykov (1889 -1938) - one of the first Kyrgyz scholars who wrote works on the traditions of European scholarship.

He was born into the family of a manap of the Solto tribe in the region of Bash-Kara-Suu. He studied at a Muslim mekteb and also attended the Vernensky Male Gymnasium (1904-1911).

From 1913, he worked as a literary translator for the Pishpek District Administration. He was granted the rank of collegiate registrar.

He served as the deputy Pishpek district commissioner - representative of the Provisional Government of Russia. He was a member of the "Alash" party, and later of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (1917-1918). He was one of those who proposed the idea of creating autonomous statehood for the Kyrgyz. In 1922, he was the chairman of the organizing committee for the creation of the Kyrgyz Mountain Region. From 1926, he worked at the Central Asian State University as a staff member of the agricultural faculty and as deputy dean of the water management faculty at the Central Asian Cotton Institute. He published articles on the history and genealogy of the Kyrgyz in Tashkent. In 1932, he was appointed deputy chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Kyrgyz ASSR, but a year later, he was arrested on false charges. He was executed on February 18, 1938, at the age of 49, as a "counter-revolutionary".

His works:
“A Brief Outline of the History of the Development of the Kyrgyz People” (1926);
“Clan Division of the Kyrgyz” (1927); “Organization of Livestock Grazing in Nomadic Groups” (1930);
“On Drought and Famine in Central Asia: A Historical Characterization” and others.

Several works were published for the first time only in 1992.

Memory Alley, Bishkek. A. Sydykov and his great-grandson Askar