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Süymönkul Chokmorov

FieldValue
official_nameSüymönkul Chokmorov
native_nameСүймөнкул Чокморов
other_nameChong-Tash
pushpin_mapKyrgyzstan
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameKyrgyzstan
subdivision_type1Region
subdivision_name1Chüy
subdivision_type2District
subdivision_name2Alamüdün
population_as_of2021
population_total729
coordinates

Süymönkul Chokmorov (, before 2000: , Its population was 729 in 2021. It is a ski resort and tourist area, and also the site of an NKVD execution. In 2000, it was renamed "Süymönkul Chokmorov" after the actor and artist Suimenkul Chokmorov.

The settlement was established in the 1930s when the local nomadic people were forced to settle.

Natives of Chong-Tash

  • Sopubek Begaliev, economist and politician.
  • Suimenkul Chokmorov, actor and artist

Memorial of Soviet repressions

In 1938, when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet Union, Chong-Tash was the site of execution by the Soviet secret police, NKVD, as part of the Great Purge in the Soviet Union. 137 people – politicians, teachers, scientists and other professional and intellectuals from all over Kyrgyzstan – were secretly taken from the Bishkek (then Frunze) prison, shot to death, and their bodies dumped into a brick oven at a mountain NKVD location near the village. This was part of Joseph Stalin's crackdown of nationalist movements in Central Asia.

One of those killed was Törökul Aitmatov, father of the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov.

The site was discovered in 1991 after Kyrgyzstan gained its independence. The caretaker of the site had been sworn to secrecy by the NKVD (and, later, the KGB), but on his deathbed he told his daughter the location of the grave, who then told the Kyrgyz authorities. The bodies were then dug up and interred at a memorial site just outside the village called "Ata Beyit" ("Grave of our Fathers"). Former president Askar Akayev, other Kyrgyz dignitaries, and relatives of the dead participated in the reburial.

References

References

  1. (May 2021). "Classification system of territorial units of the Kyrgyz Republic". National Statistics Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic.
  2. {{cite Kyrgyzstan population 2021
  3. [https://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/act/view/ru-ru/438 Law 21 January 2000 No. 33]
  4. Regina Khelimskaya (1994), "Tayna Chon-Tasha", Bishkek: Ilim, {{ISBN. 5-8355-0805-0
  5. Alan J. DeYoung, Madeleine Reeves, Galina K. Valyayeva (2006) "Surviving the Transition?: Case Studies of Schools and Schooling", {{ISBN
  6. "Short description of the village and memorial".
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