2012-" KID'S of War" year in MOL BULAK

Care about people is one of the main priorities of “Mol Bulak Finance” Company because the Company considers people as the main value!

The Company has declared the 2011 year as the Year of Children. The Company believes that children are its future, future of the society and the entire state.

Keeping this tradition we have declared the 2012 year as the Year of Children, but these are not only the children who were deprived of their childhood by war.

Children of War, as they are called now, are the children who have lived through horrors and fears of wars, who sacrificed their happy childhood for future generations. These are the children who lost their parents early, children who fought on battlefields together with adults with weapons in their hands, those who worked at machines and in fields contributing their labour to our common Great Victory!

Children of War are today’s adults. They are wise and good role models. We have no moral right to forget them, those people who provided us with the present we have, and those who cannot or have run of all their resources for earning their living and providing for their old age.

Admiring the generation of these people we consider it fair to rehabilitate their happy childhood by declaring the 2012 year as the Year of Children of War!

Unfortunately today the Children of War are in fight again, just like in their childhood, but this time they are fighting for decent life.

In upcoming 2012 we think it is necessary to realize social assistance campaigns and offer financial support to those Children of War who despite everything run their businesses and make their lives more descent.

We will continue sending love in 2012 to people, people of the older generation, our parents.

People, who saw our first steps, heard first words, were close to get us warm and comfortable, give us food and love. How many concerns people have when children arrive to a family, how much happiness it brings…

The first half of the 20th century was dramatic for all humanity. Two world wars left millions of unfortunate children behind. The wars deprived people from human happiness, peace and love. Entire generations grew up without love of their fathers and sometimes even mothers. It is not really necessary to talk about all hardships.

Each of us is a descendant of these people. These hard years have left huge imprint on their personalities. These children lived through horrors of war, losses, and deaths of their friends, relatives, brothers and sisters, famine and deprivation, and fears for the future. Many of them survived… and became stronger. They stood in their own feet and found strength to build bright future for their children and grandchildren, for US!

Stories we are going to tell you will show you amazing courage, valour, honour, bravery and love to Motherhood!

These stories will remind all of us about our roots which we should never forget!

Each story preserves the imprint of feelings and peculiar individuality of grandchildren and children who wrote these stories…

Rakhmonberdi was born over a hundred years ago in Japalak Village of Osh District into a family of a working person. He received education that was considered good in those times and was a strong person who loved discipline and order. He achieved a lot due to his outstanding personal qualities and worked at executive positions in various organizations. Rakhmonberdi’s last place of employment was Grenaj plant where he worked at a director.

Unfortunately, the war brought its own alterations in life of a young family. To the moment the war broke Rakhmonberdi was married and had a 9-year-old son.

The action he took would be considered truly noble for all times. Rakhmonberdi organized a cavalry using his own funds and then went to war leaving his beloved wife and a little son at home. He never returned…

Rakhmonberdi’s wife, Kumrukhan started working at the age of 13 at a silk-producing factory. She was a foremost worker. During the war she was a home-front worker. Being a secretary of a primary Komsomol organization she would serve as a delegate of Komsomol congress in Moscow and once even received a voucher to Sochi from Stalin’s hands.

By assignment from the factory she worked at Kumrukhan was sent for a two-year study of jurisprudence to Tashkent. Then she worked as a judge at a People’s Court of Aravan village for seven years.

Later Kumrukhan, like many of her contemporaries, was repressed. She was ultimately rehabilitated due to the absence of crime in the act but she had to quit her job.

Rakhmonberdi and Kumrukhan are no longer with us but their son who lost his father so early was able to bring up six children despite all the hardships. And if he were with us he would bring up 14 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

At the age of 4 Chaltabaev Sultanaly became an orphan. His cousin raised him. Despite the hard childhood he was able to finish Russian school of Prjevalsk with excellent marks. At that time there were few people educated enough to teach others. So, Sultanaly was asked to become a teacher of the Russian language and history at a Worker’s Faculty. He was very good at teaching. In 1938, at the age of 19, my grandfather joined the military service and then went to the front where he faced real action. At war my grandfather was an artilleryman of long-range artillery. He was a mathematician responsible for calculation of shell flight trajectories. From beginning of the Great Patriotic War to its end my grandfather served as a battery commander. He pursued fascist invaders through territories of Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and even entered Berlin. He was wounded and contused but after demobilization, in 1946, he found strength to enter the Historical Faculty of the Kyrgyz State University. He took the external degree and a few years later finished Superior Party School of Moscow.

My grandfather did not become a historian but he found his feet in journalism. He worked as an employee of “Sovettik Kyrgyzstan” newspaper and then as a chief editor of a prestigious journal “Communist”. Hard work and impeccable reputation helped him become director of “Kyrgyzstan” publishing house. Having justified the trust of administration of our Republic he was appointed as a member of auditing committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kirghiz SSR. While working as a journalist he translated K.Marx, F.Engels’ works and V.I.Lenin’s collected works into the Kyrgyz language.

Turkmenov Mambet was born into a family of a livestock breeder. During the war he went to school. Being a good pupil in senior years he taught pupils of junior classes. He also worked as an accountant at a collective farm at the time.

At the age of 16, in 1946, he finished school and entered the Kyrgyz State Medical Institute which he graduated successfully from in 1951. After that he entered a post-graduate school of the First Moscow Medical Institute but did not graduate it. In 1952 doctors were subject to repression in Moscow and my grandfather had to leave the city.

He moved to Jalal-Abad where he worked as a head of district court medical expertise. At this time a very beautiful and bold girl who resided in Jalal-Abad decided to meet him. Her named was Khalima. Two weeks later my grandfather proposed to her. Till the end of his life my grandmother was a faithful wife to him and helped him to make a great contribution into science.

In 1961 my grandfather defended a candidate’s thesis, and in 1977 – a doctor’s thesis. During his scientific activity he published over 120 scientific works including 7 monographs. Majority of these works were dedicated to questions of person’s adaptation to high mountain environment and his capacity for work in such conditions. These works are widely used nowadays in our country during selection of workers at “Kumtor” gold deposit.

My grandfather collaborated closely with the Naval Aerospace Medicine Institute in the area of training of cosmonauts for space flights. Cosmonauts N.Rukavishnikov and A.Leonov expressed special gratitude to my grandfather.

He dedicated all his life to work. My grandmother used to tell us that he slept 2-3 hours a nights and worked, worked and worked. He died at work, too. It happened during a scientific expedition.

These are just two stories but I think there are plenty of similar ones because children of war looked for something good and inspiring when everything around was bad and scaring. They found it in themselves. It was FIRE! Fire that makes people create: build a PERSONALITY out of themselves, contribute only the best into their children and grandchildren, and even do good for other people, society and our Kyrgyzstan.

Chokoeva Damira Nurmanbetovna was born in Frunze on April 2, 1933. In a family with six children she was the eldest which I believe influenced her future. Damira has always been a caring sister, wife, mother and of course grandmother.

Her family lost their father when children were very young. The father was the head of People’s Committee of dairy and milk industry in Soviet Kirgizia.

According to my grandmother’s stories all pupils both in girls’ school #28 (located at the crossing of Bokonbaev and Logvinenko streets) and boys’ school #6 (located at Erkindik Boulevard) used to write on pieces of paper instead of copybooks because all the rest paper was used for letters to soldiers from schoolchildren.

Student years which she spent in Moscow my grandmother recalled with great warmth. She told it was a hard time when she shared her scholarship into three parts. One part she sent to her mother to Frunze, the second part – to her sisters who studied in a ballet school of Leningrad, and only the third part she left for herself. She also recalled her wardrobe of student years. She said she had only two dresses and a light overcoat. When I asked about how she spent winter with such poor clothing and she replied with a smile that they used to wrap newspaper around legs and then put on nylon tights. She graduated with excellent marks and became the first engineer-technologist in Soviet Kirghizia.

In 1961 my grandfather was assigned to work in Talas as a manager of hydropower station. As a good wife my grandmother followed him with a one-year-old son. When she returned to Frunze she became the head of dairy industry.

I would like to mention that “Biolakt” project was introduced into the industry of our country based on my grandmother’s diploma work. It was produced only in Kirghiz SSR.

Grandmother’s sisters graduated from the institute and went to Frunze to work In the Opera and Ballet Theater. Makhmud Esambaev, soloist of the Opera and Ballet Theater asked them to jump over the entrance and then said: “This is Plisetskaya and this is Ulanova.” The third sister Gulnara became an Honoured Doctor of the Kirghiz SSR. Brother Lenar was a Master of Sports of gymnastics of the USSR, and the youngest brother Jenish became a violin player.

I admire my grandmother who raised and brought up six children being illiterate herself. And she did it during the hard war and post-war times.

Bishkek will celebrate its 133 anniversary this spring. It was officially founded in 1878 when all administrative and authoritative organizations of uyezd were transferred from Tokmak to Pishpek, a former fortress.

Geopolitical and strategic location of Pishpek was very convenient. Gerasim Kolpakovskii, a military governor of Semirechensk District stated: “The city is located at the crossing of four roads – from Vernyi (Almaty), Karakol, Naryn, Tashkent and the crisscross of caravan paths from Chinese Kashgar, Syrdariya and Fergana Districts.”

There was not a better place to dream about for a uyezd capital. In the same 1878, on August 31, general-lieutenant Kolpakoskii approved “Plan of Project Location of Newly Designed Pishpek City.”

Soon in the area close to Pishpek people started growing tobacco, cotton, sunflowers, hemp, fruit and vegetables. Silkworm breeding and bee-keeping, trade of textiles and small wares, agricultural tools and imported kerosene were developed.

Settled town residents were called petty bourgeois. There were also retired soldiers, Cossacks, artisans, and peasants. But the most interesting person was Ilya Fedotovich Terentiev, the first in history of Pishpek selected headman.

He was born in 1848 into a family of a master-gunsmith from Izhevsk. Years later he went to Kirgizia where he served as a clerk, then was a director of prison guardian society, and worked as a judge for two years.

In 1895 Terentiev was selected as a headman of the so called simplified town government which consisted of 12-15 members of council of authoritative persons, in other words town councilors.

While Ilya Fedotovich was in office streets started to be made straighter, especially in Dunganskii settlement. With the help of a famous gardener Fetisov Karagachev Grove was founded as well as Dubovyi Park and Bulvarnyi Alley (part of it is now a modern Erkindik Boulevard).

Once a forest tract located to the north of the center was named Terentiev’s Garden. Architect Yakov Mazmanov suggested reviving this garden. In 1897 the headman founded a farmstead and the first two-storey house there. Now it ornaments the Old Square which is located close to Jogorku Kenesh. The garden was especially famous for hop plantations. Town headman Terentiev was honored three prestigious awards for the high quality of his hop. For example, there is a silver medal and an honorary diploma showcased in Historical Museum of Bishkek which were given to our fellow-townsman at the World Exhibition “Paris-1900”. There are also medals from the famous Fair of Nizhny Novgorod of 1896 and Semirechensk Districts Fair of 1902.

Ilya Fedotovich was a man of principle. He never bowed to the wishes of town deputies. Once when town councilors refused to fix student’s allowance to two orphaned sons of an outstanding uyezd doctor’s assistant, Terentiev wrote a “separate opinion” and insisted that the allowance was fixed. The governor supported his opinion. Due to this Mikhail Frunze finished Vernyi gymnasium (yes, that very commander) without any financial difficulties.

The town head was able to found the first town hospital with 7 wards and a drugstore. He helped the poor and destitute. He educated himself and collected the best private book collection, opened a few schools and gymnasiums. He wrote an article “Information about Pishpek town” which was widely used by officers for a long time.

During the first year of his governance Terentiev organized a public New Year celebration of with a New Year tree around which over 200 children and adults sang and danced. Culture was brought to the masses. For example, in 1896, at the New Year’s eve town residents applauded to “Jenitba Belugina” Ostrovskii’s play and “Beda ot Serdtsa I Gore ot Uma” comic sketch. The 100^th anniversary from Alexander Pushkin’s birthday was also celebrated with great pomp.

Town headman Terentiev had plenty of medals including the one he received for taking part in campaign against Kokand khanate. One more medal re was presented to him for population census which was totally new in Kirghizia. According to the census there were 6615 people living in Pishpek in 1897. Today, even if we add two zeros to the figure it will be too small. Bishkek has become bigger and much more populated…

In 1906, by Terentiev’s initiative annual Pishpek cattle-trading fair was founded, which was one of the largest in Semirechye and active up to the beginning of the World War I.

In March 1907 “Town Society of Small Mutual Credit” was founded which by its nature was the first bank. The same year “Guest Cinematograph” visited the town a few times. In 1911 “Meteor” and “Mars” cinemas was founded. Three years later “Edison” Theatre was also established which could room 400 people. On its place we have Theater of Russian Drama named after Chingiz Aitmatov located now.

Soon in the center of Pishpek uyezd which had over 12 thousand residents 40 streets and lanes were numbered. Manufacture was developed fast. Mills, candle and soap factories, potteries, brick, lime and leather factories, sawmills, creameries and rice hushing mills existed.

There was even a factory producing candies! Pashkov, Engalychev, Lakhno, Kolbasin and Tashbaev’s names were famous at that time….

There were even more municipal problems, just like now. The same fixes with water supply system, illumination, road and bridge repair… Where was it possible to take the money from for landscaping and solving of other problems? According to an interesting police directive owners of cinematographs, panoramas, skating-rinks, theaters and circuses did not pay any fees for the benefit of the town while making quite big profits from their businesses. Using this document Terentiev and his team established a “special fee” from tickets to these show performances.

Before the World War I broke Terentiev quit his job. In 1913 he collected the last hop harvest which amounted to 100 poods. Soon after that his hop became unprofitable because brewing was prohibited. On May 14, 1914 Ilya Fedotovich died at the age of 66.

…His idea about restoration of Terentiev’s garden and surrounding facilities was later realized and now serves as a monument to our first mayor and real patriot of the capital.

I am proud of my grandfather! He is no longer with us but I would like to talk to him again and again. I want to tell about him to all people and this way gives him a few more moments of life. My grandfather, Amantur, born in 1924, went to the front in autumn of 1942 despite his parents’ persuasion. He finished intelligent school of NKVD troops and took part in military operations in the territories of Belarussia, Ukraine, and Poland. When the war ended my grandfather was in Czechoslovakia.

He returned home from war in 1946, the only one of three brothers who left to defend their motherhood. He received many orders including The Order of The Patriotic War of the II Class, Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, Distinguished Service Order, Prague Liberation Medal, Victory over Germany in Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 Medal.

When the war ended my grandfather graduated from a university and till the end of his life worked in the education sphere in the Issyk-Kul District.

My another grandfather, Kangeldiev Abylkasym, joined the Working Peasant Red Army in 1942.

Having completed accelerated class of political science of Frunze Infantry School he was sent to the very hell of war – Stalingrad battlefield. As a political instructor of rifle company he had to experience all the hardships of the war. His recollection of Stalingrad battles pictured incredible bloodshed. During one of the attacks in February of 1943 my grandfather was wounded into his arm. For bravery and courage displayed during the battles for Stalingrad he was honored with the Distinguished Service Order. His name was carved in marble in Memorial Museum of Stalingrad Battle History at Mamai Kurgan.

Jypar Junushbaeva was born in the beginning of the 20^th century into an ordinary family. From the early age she was notable for her stubborn character and firmness. She held her ground and always tried something new. She was a revolutionist of her time. She did not want to stay at home and live the life of many other women of that time. She believed a woman had to have the same rights a man had – for work, study and fight. Being fascinated by the beauty of the sky and willing to shoot upwards like a free bird my grandmother dreamed about flying.

She decided to enter a flying school to realize her dream. And soon she made the first step by jumping with a parachute. She became the first woman in Kyrgyzstan who did that. It is especially important considering the fact that even now, a century later, not everyone is ready to do it.

Later Jypar became one of the two first women pilots in Kyrgyzstan who was able to conquer the sky. It was a breakthrough of the time. But when the war broke my grandmother was left here to teach radio operators because pilot detachment had already been formed.

My grandmother was the first in everything in all times. She went skiing from Frunze to Almaty, did other active sports, then got married and had five children. She raised strong, healthy, responsible and honest people and citizens.