At the beginning of 1925, together with the governing bodies of the Kyrgyz Autonomous Region, the editorial office of the newspaper "Erkin-Too" moved from Tashkent to Pishpek, which was significant for improving its further activities: it became closer to its authors and readers. In Pishpek, editorial and printing conditions began to be created for the systematic and quality publication of the newspaper "Erkin-Too," as well as other subsequent newspapers and magazines of the republic.
At the same time, the Kyrgyz regional committee of the RCP (b) began preparatory work on creating a mass newspaper in Russian. Soon, on March 23, 1925, on the day of the opening of the first conference of the Kyrgyz regional party organization in Pishpek, the first issue of this newspaper was published, named "Batyrak Truth" (later - "Peasant Path," then - "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," and today - "Word of Kyrgyzstan"). Materials from the party conference were widely published in the pages of the newspaper "Erkin-Too" in Kyrgyz and in the newspaper "Batyrak Truth" in Russian. The publication of these two newspapers was of great importance in the life of the autonomous region when there were no other means of mass communication. They began to systematically cover the multifaceted activities of party, Soviet, and other public organizations, as well as the working people of the region in strengthening Soviet power and laying the foundations for socialist construction.
It should be noted that on the initiative of the Kyrgyz regional committee of the party, close ties were established between the workers of the editorial offices of the newspapers "Erkin-Too" and "Batyrak Truth" in their daily propaganda, agitation, and organizational activities, assisting the leadership of the autonomous region in its efforts to develop the economy, culture, and social spheres of the mountainous region, increasing the consciousness, activity, and education of its population, and in the struggle for a new life. The editorial offices of the two newspapers constantly exchanged work experiences, interesting informational materials, and jointly prepared letters from readers, correspondences, and articles on pressing economic and social topics. Experienced staff members of the "Batyrak Truth" editorial office (some of whom had previously worked in the editorial offices of central Russian and Central Asian newspapers) provided important assistance to their Kyrgyz colleagues in mastering the necessary forms and methods of editorial work and various genres of journalism. In addressing these and other issues, a significant role was played by the joint editorial board of the two newspapers, created by the regional committee of the party. It conducted fruitful work in planning the propaganda, agitation, and organizational activities of the teams of the two newspapers, monitoring the implementation of planned events, improving the professional qualifications of editorial staff, and creating and strengthening ties with rural and working correspondents. By the end of 1925, the number of permanent freelance correspondents for the two newspapers reached 345, of which 109 active press assistants were representatives of the Kyrgyz nationality.
"The editorial staff was then small: 7-10 people, including the newspaper's dispatcher and service personnel," recalled the first editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Batyrak Truth," P. Telegin. "It was difficult to find the first three reporter staff: K. Starodubtsev, A. Brzhezovsky, and G. Kambarov. Remembering that tense time, you feel a pleasant excitement and satisfaction that, thanks to a happy, albeit difficult start in the press, we managed to make some contribution to its establishment and development."
Thus, the newspapers "Erkin-Too" and "Batyrak Truth" played an important historical role in the early periods of building a new reality on Kyrgyz land: in creating and strengthening Soviet power, propagating the ideas of a new life, implementing the processes of settling the Kyrgyz, who were formerly nomads, eliminating their disunity and illiteracy, as well as eradicating harmful customs and remnants of the past in their consciousness and lives, and establishing cultural and educational institutions, schools, etc.
In 1926, the ranks of printed publications in Kyrgyzstan were supplemented by the theoretical and political magazine "Communist", as well as the youth newspaper "Lenin's Youth" in Kyrgyz, the first issues of which were published on November 7, 1926. This also became a significant event in the social life of the mountainous region, transformed into the Kyrgyz Autonomous Republic on February 1, 1926.
The magazine "Communist" (later "Communist of Kyrgyzstan"), which was published monthly until the early 1990s, did much to promote theoretical and political knowledge among the Kyrgyz population, ideologically and politically strengthening, and morally improving communists and non-party activists, especially party-Soviet and economic cadres, as well as the scientific, pedagogical, and creative intelligentsia of the republic. The first editor-in-chief of "Communist" was O. Aliyev.
The newspaper "Lenin's Youth" quickly gained enormous authority among young men and women, and indeed among the entire population, with its tireless struggle against all remnants of the old ways of life, supporters of the old way of life, and its active mobilization of youth for constructive work for social progress, acquiring knowledge, culture, and introducing socialist elements into everyday life. "Our youth newspaper was the bedside book of each of us," later said the people's poet of Kyrgyzstan, one of its chief editors, T. Umetaliev. "From it, we daily drew a lot of new and useful information for our work, creativity, and life." The first issues of the newspaper were edited by a responsible worker of the Kyrgyz regional committee of the party, X. Zhiienbaev.
On February 1, 1926, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopted a resolution to transform the Kyrgyz Autonomous Region into the Kyrgyz ASSR.
Starting in 1928, the Kyrgyz Autonomous Republic began publishing a scientific-pedagogical and literary magazine in Kyrgyz "Zhany Madeniyat Zholunda" ("On the Path to a New Culture") and the magazine "Diykan" ("Peasant") in Kyrgyz and Russian. Thus, by the end of the 1920s, the total annual circulation of newspapers and magazines in Kyrgyzstan exceeded 50,000 copies, which was a significant achievement in the formerly backward mountainous region with an almost illiterate population.
