
Eternalizing the Memory of the Commander M. V. Frunze.
Renaming of the city of Pishpek by the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on May 25, 1926, to the city of Frunze The renaming of Bishkek was of significant importance in its history, prompted by the sudden death on October 31, 1925, of the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze — a native of the city of Pishpek. A compatriot of the Kyrgyz people, M. V. Frunze was one of the outstanding figures of the state, a talented and