Osmonkul Aliyev (1903-1938) was born in the village of Choloq-Aryk in what is now the Panfilov district of Chui region. In 1924, he graduated from the Kazakh-Kyrgyz Institute of Education in Tashkent. While still a student, he actively participated in the work of the first Komsomol organizations: he served as the head of the political and educational department of the Tashkent City Committee, and as the head of the organizational department of the Syr Darya regional and Oloyatin city Komsomol committees. Therefore, after graduating from the institute, he was appointed a member of the executive bureau of the Kyrgyz regional party committee and the first secretary of the regional committee of the RCKSM (Russian Communist Youth Union). It was during this time, in November 1924, that he was also entrusted with the duties of the first editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Erkin-Too." He continued his editorial work later when he was appointed head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the Kyrgyz regional party committee.
Osmonkul Aliyev was an educated person, fluent in literary Kyrgyz and Russian. In addition, he had good organizational and propaganda skills. Therefore, at the beginning of 1924, during one of the meetings of the bureau of the Kyrgyz regional Komsomol committee, a decision was made to "open six-month courses for teaching the Kyrgyz language to European workers, activists of the regional bureau and the city at the bureau of the regional Komsomol committee. Appoint comrade Aliyev O. as the teacher and responsible for the work of the courses."
Osmonkul Aliyev was the editor of the first national periodicals, both the newspaper and the magazine. He did much to shape and develop Kyrgyz journalism, successfully fulfilling the responsibilities assigned to him. This is noted in the reference issued to him at the end of 1926 when he was transferred to work in Moscow: "Comrade O. Aliyev, being a member of the Executive Bureau of the OK VKP(b) and head of agitatprop, showed maximum initiative, while simultaneously working on the development of periodical press in Kyrgyzstan, serving as the responsible editor of the newspaper 'Erkin-Too' and the magazine 'Kommunist' - the governing body of the OK, one of the initiators of which was indeed comrade Aliyev. The well-structured editorial apparatus and the quality selection of its staff were the result of comrade Aliyev's energetic initiative. The authority of the newspaper among the broad masses significantly increased, and the ideological content of the magazine edited by comrade Aliyev gained great popularity among the local party activists until his departure to Moscow."
In Moscow, he initially worked as a permanent representative of the Kyrgyz government in the All-Union Central Executive Committee (VTsIK), and then entered the Communist University. After graduating from the university, he worked as the People's Commissar of Education of the Kyrgyz ASSR. After three years in this position, he was appointed secretary of the Kyrgyz regional committee of the VKP(b), and then sent to work in the Central Asian Bureau of the VKP(b) as deputy head of the department. In 1935-1936, he served as the first secretary of the Osh district party committee. In January 1937, he was again appointed People's Commissar of Education of the republic.
Osmonkul Aliyev was a member of the editorial commission for the translation of the six-volume works of V.I. Lenin into the Kyrgyz language. In 1937, he made a significant report on the centenary of the death of A.S. Pushkin. He was repressed and shot in 1938, and later rehabilitated.
