Kyrgyz State Memorial House-Museum of M.V. Frunze
This is the first museum in Kyrgyzstan dedicated to the life and activities of Mikhail Frunze, which was opened in Bishkek in 1925.
This house was where he spent his childhood and youth. The original setting of that time has been preserved intact. Everything here reminds of the years when the future commander lived here.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was born on February 2, 1885, in the city of Pishpek (the name Bishkek had at that time). He was a well-known Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman, and military leader. During the Civil War, Mikhail Frunze became one of the most prominent commanders of the Red Army. He was best known for capturing Khiva and Bukhara from the White Army on the Eastern Front and Crimea from Pyotr Wrangel in 1920. In 1921, Frunze represented the Ukrainian SSR on a diplomatic trip to Turkey, where he participated in establishing diplomatic relations between the new Turkish Republic and the Soviet Union. He died in 1925 and was buried in the Necropolis of the Kremlin Wall. After his death, Pishpek was renamed Frunze, and in 1991 - Bishkek.
Initially, the museum was organized in 1925 in a mud-brick house with a reed roof, where Frunze was born.
In 1967, the construction of a new building for the M.V. Frunze Museum was completed. The main exhibit became the house - a mud-brick hut with a reed roof, which remained inside the new building. The small house was somewhat "absorbed" by another structure built above it – a giant four-story building made of glass and concrete. The exhibition area of the house-museum increased from 240 m² to 2000 m².
As of January 1, 2001, the museum housed 6,583 exhibits in its main collection. The exhibits presented in the museum are originals, items donated by relatives and close ones of M.V. Frunze, as well as furniture, dishes, and his library. The entire setting recreates the lifestyle of Russians in Kyrgyzstan from the 19th to the early 20th centuries.
Phone: +996 (312) 66-06-07, 66-06-04
Bishkek, Frunze St., 364
