MILOV Mikhail Andreevich
Years of life (1904—1977). Architect M. A. Milov was born in the city of Privolzhsk, Kostroma region. In 1930, he graduated from the architectural department of Tomsk Technological Institute and worked in Kyrgyzstan starting in 1937. He was a participant in the Great Patriotic War.
M. A. Milov primarily worked in the field of urban planning in the republic. He participated in the development of master plans for the cities of: Rybachye, Kok-Yangak, Tash-Kumyr, Naryn; district centers: Kant, Belovodskoye, and others. For the first time in Kyrgyzstan's construction practice, a residential quarter based on standard projects was built in Frunze in the area of the Champagne Wine Factory according to M. A. Milov's project.
Architects began their active creative work in the republic even before the war—during a time of rapid industrial potential growth and intensive civil construction. By 1940, the transition of the indigenous population of Kyrgyzstan from a nomadic to a settled lifestyle was largely completed, the farmstead settlement system was eliminated, and tens of thousands of houses and numerous cultural and domestic facilities were built. By the end of the 1930s, the central design institute "Gorstroyproekt" completed the planning and reconstruction scheme for the city of Frunze, marking the beginning of modern urban planning in Kyrgyzstan.
The Great Patriotic War called architecture to serve Victory. Ongoing construction projects were temporarily halted, and the entire construction potential of the republic was directed towards building facilities for enterprises evacuated from the western regions of the country. At the same time, the reconstruction of existing production facilities was carried out. Particularly large-scale construction of industrial facilities unfolded in Frunze, Osh, Tokmak, Jalal-Abad, and Kara-Balta, with new power plants being built. The issue of providing housing for the evacuated population was especially acute. In cities and villages, simplified type housing was constructed—barracks, dormitories, semi-dugouts, and others. They were built from adobe, cobblestones, clay, reeds, and less frequently from bricks. The construction of public buildings was almost nonexistent.
