Sharshenov Asan
Editor. Born on August 10, 1930, in the village of Stalinskoye (now Belovodskoye) in the Stalinsky (now Moskovsky) district of the Frunze region of the Kyrgyz SSR into a peasant family. He was raised in orphanages in Belovodskoye and Tokmak. In 1944, he was sent to a military music school at the Tashkent Infantry School named after V. I. Lenin. After the war, he was transferred to a vocational school in the village of Boz-Su in the Tashkent region. Since 1947, he has been working as a machine operator at the Chirchik Electrochemical Plant. In 1954, after graduating from evening high school, he entered the philological faculty of Kyrgyz State University. From 1959 to 1961, he taught Russian language and literature in grades 8-10 at the secondary schools of the collective farms "Communism" and "Kyzyl-Oktyabr" in the Uzgen district of the Osh region. Since September 1961, A. Sharshenov has been working as an editor-informant at the "Kyrgyzfilm" studio. In 1964-1965, he served as acting senior editor of the chronicle and editor of the newsreel "Soviet Kyrgyzstan." Since 1974, he has been the head of the chronicle department and a member of the script and editorial board of the "Kyrgyzfilm" studio. Since 1977, he has been appointed a member of the script and editorial board and editor of feature films.
From 1964 to 1968, A. Sharshenov wrote narration texts for 25 issues of the newsreel "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," and edited the films "In the Wake of Spring" (1967), "Words" (1967), "Traffic Light" (1968). He is the author of the scripts for the documentary films "Frunze, 1965" (1966, co-authored with G. Degaltsov), "Steel Highway" (1977), and the feature film "Ambush" (co-authored with K. Bulatov and G. Degaltsov, 1969) by G. Bazarov.
In the 1970s, A. Sharshenov prepared issues of the newsreel "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," edited short documentary films and essays "This is Issyk-Kul," "Autumn Concerns" (both in 1973), "No Discounts for Age," "Guitar," "Who is For? Who is Against? Who Abstained?" (all in 1974), "Seven Brothers of Cotton Pickers," "Origins," "People's Patrol," "Mentor," "Edelweiss" (all in 1975), "Next Flight," "Days of Soviet Literature in Kyrgyzstan" (both in 1976), as well as the feature overview film "Soviet Kyrgyzstan" (1974).
Awards — Medal "For Labor Distinction" (1953).
Member of the USSR Union of Cinematographers since 1968.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS
Where to watch the documentary film? — "Evening Frunze," May 20, 1979.
The First Case (pseudonym—S. Ashenov).— "Soviet Screen," 1979, No. 12, p. 21.
"Kanybek" — on the screen.— "Evening Frunze," January 26, 1979.
