Timeline of Bishkek

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

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19th-20th centuries

• 1878 - Pishpek founded.
• 1926 - Town becomes capital of the Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic; Pishpek renamed "Frunze."
• 1925 - Batratskaya Pravda newspaper begins publication.^[1]
• 1938 - Botanical Garden founded.^[2]
• 1954 - Frunze Polytechnic Institute founded.
• 1974 - Vecherniy Bishkek newspaper begins publication.
• 1975 - Manas Airport begins operating.
• 1976 - Ala Archa National Park established near city.
• 1979 - Population: 552,000.^[3]
• 1984 - Ala-Too Square laid out.
• 1985 - White House built.
• 1990 - Kyrgyz Television begins broadcasting.
• 1991 - City renamed "Bishkek."
• 1992 - Dordoy Bazaar in business (approximate date).
• 1993
  • International University of Kyrgyzstan established.
  • Jumabek Ibraimov becomes mayor.
• 1995 - Boris Silayev becomes mayor.
• 1996 - International Atatürk-Alatoo University established.
• 1998
  • Felix Kulov becomes mayor.
  • "Church in Bishkek" founded.^[4]
• 1999 - The Times of Central Asia English-language newspaper begins publication.

21st century

• 2001 - Manas Air Base of the United States military established outside city.
• 2005
  • 24 March: Protest against Akayev regime.^[5]
  • Arstanbek Nogoev becomes mayor.
  • Institute for Public Policy founded.^[6]
• 2006 - Protest against Bakiyev regime.^[5]
• 2007
  • Demonstration against Bakiyev regime.^[5]
  • Daniar Usenov becomes mayor.^[7]
• 2008 - Nariman Tuleyev becomes mayor.
• 2009 - Population: 846,256.^[8]
• 2010
  • 2010 Kyrgyzstani riots.^[5]
  • Isa Omurkulov becomes mayor (approximate date).
• 2011 - TEDx Bishkek begins.^[9]

See also

• List of universities in Bishkek
• Other names of Bishkek

References

1. "Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
2. "Botanical Garden of the Kyrgis Academy of Sciences, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan". Botanic Gardens Conservation International. 1997. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
3. Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
4. Mathijs Pelkmans (2007). "'Culture' as a Tool and an Obstacle: Missionary Encounters in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK) 13.
5. "Kyrgyzstan Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
6. "Think Tank Directory". Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
7. "New mayor of Bishkek city". Country Weblog: Kyrgyzstan. Neweurasia. 14 November 2007. Archived from the original on 2007 – via Global Voices.
8. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.
9. "TEDx Bishkek". Retrieved 24 April 2013.

Further reading

Published in the 20th century

• Irina Kostyukovaa (1994). "The towns of Kyrgyzstan change their faces: Rural‐urban migrants in Bishkek". Central Asian Survey 13.

Published in the 21st century

• A. Botoyeva (2007). "The institutionalization of novel shopping places in a post-soviet country. The case of supermarkets in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan". Movements, Migrants, Marginalization. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag.
• Philipp Schrödera (2010). "‘Urbanizing’ Bishkek: interrelations of boundaries, migration, group size and opportunity structure". Central Asian Survey 29.

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