This settlement is part of the Yrdyk rural district and is located at an altitude of 1695 meters above sea level, approximately 28 kilometers from the central village of Kyzyl-Suu and 208 kilometers from the station of Balikchy. About 1000 people live in Konkino, which consists of around 146 families. The village has a school, a club, and a library.
The village was founded in honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union, G.E. Konkin.
The local population is engaged in agriculture. Until 1969, there was no school in the village, so children were educated in the neighboring village. Initially, a primary school was opened, and in 2009, a new educational institution was built.
The main activity of the villagers is agriculture, and some manage to harvest two crops in greenhouses in one year. The products grown in Konkino are sold in the city of Karakol.
The village is home to both Kyrgyz and Russians.
Reference Information:
Grigory Yefimovich Konkin, who was a rifleman in the 4th company of the 2nd battalion of the 1075th rifle regiment of the 316th rifle division of the 16th army of the Western Front, a Red Army soldier.
He was born in 1911 in the village of Pokrovka (now Kyzyl-Suu) in the Jeti-Oguz district of the Issyk-Kul region into a peasant family.
He received primary education and worked in the collective farm named after V.I. Chapaev. He joined the ranks of the Great Patriotic War in 1941.
On November 16, 1941, as a rifleman in the 4th company of the 2nd battalion of the 1075th rifle regiment, Grigory Konkin participated in the battle near the Dubosekovo railway junction, being part of a group of anti-tank fighters under the command of political instructor V.G. Klochkova and sergeant I.E. Dobrobabin, where he took part in repelling attacks from enemy tanks and infantry.
This group, which entered history as the 28 Panfilov Heroes, destroyed eighteen enemy tanks. Grigory Konkin fell in this battle and was buried in a mass grave near the village of Nelidovo in the Volokolamsk district of the Moscow region.
By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on July 21, 1942, for his displayed heroism and fulfillment of combat tasks, Grigory Yefimovich Konkin was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
He was awarded the Order of Lenin.
A museum dedicated to the 28 Panfilov Heroes has been opened in the Nelidovo village club, and a memorial has been erected at the grave. The village of Konkino in the Jeti-Oguz district, as well as the school in this village and streets in Przhevalsk and the village of Pokrovka, bear the name of the Hero. A bust of Grigory Konkin has been erected in the village of Pokrovka.
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