Koschomkul
Coordinates: 42 ° 8 ′ 13 ″ N , 74 ° 4 ′ 30 ″ O Koschomkul (Kyrgyz: Кожомкул) is a village in the south of the Suusamyr Valley , a high mountain valley in Kyrgyzstan . Administratively, the place belongs to the municipality of Suusamyr in Jajyl Rajon of the Tschüi region . Until the fall of the Soviet Union and Kyrgyzstan gained state independence in 1991, the village was called March 8th , named after the beginning of the Russian February Revolution in 1917 , whichbegan on March 8th, 1917according to Gregorian calendar .
The village
The village has 1018 inhabitants (2015) and extends over a length of around 3.5 km from north to south along the M16 road (A367) on the eastern, orographic left bank of the Kökömeren river , which not far from the village from the confluence of Suusamyr and Karakol (also "Western Karakol") is formed and then leaves the Suusamyr valley to the south through a narrow gorge between the mountain ranges of the Suusamyrtoo in the west and the Jumgaltoo in the east.
Son and namesake of the village
It is the birthplace and death place of the Kyrgyzstan wrestler and folk hero Koschomkul Kaba uluu (1888–1955), after whom it is also named and whose monumental statue in front of the sports palace named after him in the capital Bishkek depicts the giant as he is exhausted horse carries on his shoulder. According to legend, his horse got stuck in high mud or snow, whereupon he took it on his shoulder and carried it on. His stone mausoleum , modeled on a Kyrgyz yurt , damaged in an earthquake and since then protected under a wooden pavilion roof, is located near the south exit of Koschomkul and a small, privately operated museum, where some of his clothing can be seen, is in the village itself On June 30, 2019, a big celebration for the 130th anniversary of his birth took place at Koschomkul, with competitions in wrestling, rock lifting and horse lifting.
Footnotes
- ↑ Национальный статистический комитет Кыргызской Республики: Численность постоянного сельского населения Кыргызской Республики по айылным аймакам и айылам (селам) в 2015 г. (National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic: Number of permanent rural population of the Kyrgyz Republic by Aiyl-Aimaks and Aiyls (villages) in 2015 ), accessed December 12, 2019
- ↑ Kyrgyzstan remembers Kaba Uulu Kozhomkul (Anadolu Agency, June 30, 2019; video, 4:16 min; accessed December 11, 2019)