The performance of Jetim Khan and Mamyr Mergenov in the spring of 1878.
The Rebellion of Jetim Khan and Mamyr Mergenov
The uprising, which took place in June-July in Alai, Gulcha, and the area bordering Karategin, had much in common with the April uprising of the residents of these regions and was, in a sense, a continuation of it. These uprisings also had a popular liberation character. The driving force behind them were the laboring herders, supported by Uzbek farmers. Representatives of the feudal nobility also participated, and the laboring Uzbek population of Fergana sympathized with and supported the uprisings of the Kyrgyz nomads.
The tsarist authorities, having suppressed the uprisings and punished their participants, imposed a tribute on the population of Alai and Gulcha.
The latter were obliged to provide 150 horses suitable for military service, pay zakyat (tax on livestock) at the rate of 6 rubles for every hundred sheep instead of 4 rubles, and arrange a wheeled road from Gulcha through Taylyk-Davay to the Kyzyl-Suu valley.
With the suppression of the aforementioned uprisings, the regions of Alai and Gulcha were finally annexed to Russia. In these high mountainous areas, 17,380 families of Kyrgyz nomads roamed, specifically the following tribes: adygine (3,145 yurts), mongush (1,225 yurts), and ichkilik (13,010 yurts); from them, Gulchin, Ak-Burinsk, and Naukat volosts were formed, which constituted the basis of the Osh district.
From the spring of 1878, Jetim Khan and Mamyr Mergenov traveled to some ails and kishlaks of Andijan, Osh, and Kokand districts, trying to organize an uprising of the indigenous population against Russia for freedom. Earlier, Mamyr Mergenov, "not wanting to pay taxes to the khan's government, wanted to defend this desire by force," i.e., he fought against the khan's authority. At the end of May and the beginning of June 1878, Jetim Khan and those around him were defeated by a tsarist punitive detachment. On the night of June 8, Jetim Khan was captured by the punitive forces, and ten days later he was executed by the tsarist authorities. On June 5 of the same year, in the area of Kashka-Terek, Sary-Bulak, Mamyr Mergenov and his 20 companions resisted the punitive detachment. Mamyr wounded the volost administrator Mullah Kalyam with a spear. However, he was forced to flee and hide in the Chal-Jailoo ravine. On September 8, in the kishlak of Bazar-Kurgan, Mamyr Mergenov and his two companions Bulat Toktomushev and Narkul Aldus were captured. On January 18, 1879, the Turkestan governor-general imposed his resolution on the verdict of the military field court: "To sentence Mamyr Mergenov to death by hanging." Soon, in the city of Andijan, on one of the nearest market days, this sentence was carried out.
Assistance of Shabdan Batyr to the Tsarist Military Detachment
