Ata-Bejit memorial
 
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The Ata-Bejit Memorial is a cemetery and memorial near the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek , which was built to commemorate the victims of the Stalin Purges .
history
At the location in the south of Bishkek, where the memorial was built in 2000, numerous leading figures of the then Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic were shot on November 5, 1938 without a court judgment. Among them were politicians, artists and party officials who fell into the Stalinist purges for opera, which at the time reached its peak during the Great Terror .
The location of this place was only found in 1991 with the help of eyewitnesses. Thereupon 137 corpses were exhumed and buried in a common grave, which forms the center of today's Ata-Bejit memorial. In the following years the memorial became a general place of remembrance, where the victims of the unrest before the change of government in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 were also buried. A monument was also erected to commemorate the Central Asian uprising against the Russian occupiers in 1916.
On June 14, 2008, the writer Tschingis Aitmatow, one of the most famous people in recent Kyrgyz history, was buried in Ata-Bejit. This fulfilled a wish of the writer who wanted to be buried next to his father. He fell victim to the shootings at what is now Ata-Bejit in 1938 and is buried in the common grave of the victims. At the state funeral for Tschingis Aitmatov, 20,000 people paid their last respects to the writer.
construction
The facility is located around 20 kilometers south of Bishkek, but can be easily reached from there.
The center of the complex is the communal grave of the victims of the mass shootings in 1938, which is marked with a large granite slab. Next to it there is a small museum that commemorates the Stalin Purges. The grave of Tschingis Aitmatow lies a little apart and is designed in white marble .
The victims of the unrest in 2010 are remembered in a separate, small cemetery, where most of the gravestones are marked with names and a picture of the approximately 40 victims. A large board also lists the names of all the victims of the unrest.
Another place of remembrance on the site of the Ata-Bejit Memorial is the memorial to the uprising in Central Asia against Russian rule in 1916.
Individual evidence
- ↑ sadyr: Ata Beyit Memorial Complex. April 30, 2018. Retrieved November 16, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ LIPortal - the country information portal everyday & practical information. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Ata-Beyit Memorial Complex | Chuy Oblast, Kyrgyzstan Chuy Oblast. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ More than 20,000 say goodbye to Tschingis Aitmatow | NZZ . June 14, 2008, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed November 16, 2019]).
- ^ Dagmar Schreiber, Stephan Flechtner: Kyrgyzstan . 6th edition. Trescher Verlag, Berlin, p. 142 .
- ↑ Ata-Beyit Memorial Complex in Chong-Tash. In: Museum Studies Abroad. November 2, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2019 (American English).