Memorial Museum "Ata-Beyit"
The memorial complex "Ata-Beyit" is a structural subdivision of the Bishkek city administration.
The "Ata-Beyit" memorial complex is a cultural, tourist, and environmental protection institution created to ensure the preservation, restoration, study, and public presentation of a holistic historical, cultural, and natural complex, as well as material and spiritual values in their historical, cultural, and natural environment, for cultural and educational, and tourist-excursion purposes.
The memorial complex "Ata-Beyit," which translates from Kyrgyz as "Grave of the Fathers," was built at the initiative of the first president of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, in 2000, in memory of the victims of the repressions of the 1930s.
Here lie almost the entire elite of Kyrgyz intelligentsia. The "Ata-Beyit" museum houses personal belongings and archival materials of the repressed.
One of the KGB officers, while on his deathbed in 1980, revealed the secret of the execution of his daughter. After coming of age, the girl made this secret public.
The bodies were dumped into a brick kiln in Chon-Tash: Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jews. Among them were the founders of the Kyrgyz Soviet state and the first people's commissars.
Experts conducting excavations discovered a space measuring 4x4 m at a depth of 40 cm, which contained 137 human skeletons, some of which had personal documents with them. After exhumation, the bodies were transported to the "Ata-Beyit" cemetery ("Cemetery of the Fathers") located 100 m from the excavations.
According to archival data, in the 1930s, several tens of thousands of people were repressed and executed in Kyrgyzstan.
According to official data, the victims of Stalin's repressions amounted to 12.5 million citizens of the USSR.
On August 30, 1991, a state mourning ceremony was held for the reburial of the remains of the victims of Stalin's repressions found in Chon-Tash. The next day, on August 31, 1991, the independence of sovereign Kyrgyzstan was proclaimed.
On the right side of the museum, there is a memorial plaque engraved with the names of the deceased.
November 8 is commemorated as the day of remembrance for the victims of the repressions of 1937-1938.
The memorial complex (total area - 2 hectares) includes: a sculptural composition and museum, a brick kiln - the place where 137 people were executed and initially buried; a memorial monument.
In the "Ata-Beyit" Museum (area - 400 sq. m), documents and photographs of the political development of Kyrgyzstan in the 1920s-30s are presented, as well as materials about the victims of the Chon-Tash burial site. The authors of the museum's exhibition are researchers from the State Historical Museum: A. Israilova, O. Ilyinskaya, K. Kimalaev.
On August 30, 1991, a state mourning ceremony was held for the reburial of the remains of the victims of Stalin's repressions found in Chon-Tash. The next day, on August 31, 1991, the independence of sovereign Kyrgyzstan was proclaimed. On the right side of the museum, there is a memorial plaque engraved with the names of the deceased. November 8 is commemorated as the day of remembrance for the victims of the repressions of 1937-1938.
On June 14, 2008, Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov was buried in the historical and memorial complex "Ata-Beyit."
Address: Alamudun district, village of Tash Dobo.
Phone: 0 772 32 40 43
Working hours from 9:00 to 18:00 without days off.
Memorial Complex for the Victims of Repressions "Ata-Beyit"
