Dzerzhinka code
vb.kg – Alexander Tuzov. Honored Cultural Worker, Professor of KRSU Andrey Kuznetsov has lived on Erkindik Avenue for 70 years, since February 1950. The old-timer recently celebrated «Dzerzhinsky’s anniversary» with the publication of his book «House on Dzerzhinka, or Dormitory for Professors: There Was Such a Thing».
The old-timer professor abundantly quoted and analyzed even youth folklore «Derzhinki», without the letter «h» (from the word «hold», that is, command the guys of the entire area).
A pitiful local youth song from the mid-1960s, found by Kuznetsov: «Poplars die on «Derzhinka» mine, Only benches will remain and bare asphalt, The sound of a guitar sad in Yesenin’s way. Everything will disappear in the fog, the sweetness of drinking and fighting. So why did we live drinking ourselves like this? The youngest, happiest one, conquered the earth. The oldest and most violent –behind bars in prison!».
The street song is based on a true story. According to Kuznetsov, in the early 60s, children from nearby houses began to gather on the boulevard in the evenings. They sang with a guitar, discussed something, joked, and sometimes drank. But one day a quarrel broke out, which turned into a fight. Disappointing result: one of the guys was hit in the head with a bottle and died. The participants in the fight were children of high-ranking parents, however, the trial took place and the perpetrators were punished.
In general, there is an interesting testimony about «bosses on «Derzhinka» in the book by the young front-line soldier Nikolai Polyakov. In the first post-war year, Dzerzhinka, from the station to Oak Park, was crowded and festive in the evenings. The well-fed high-ranking bosses with their curvy wives paraded with a special gait – they turned their feet outward! And suddenly the bosses disappeared at once: in 1947, closer to the upper reaches of Ala-Archi, a «government dacha» with a modest sign opened «Rest House № 3».
In his new book, Andrey Kuznetsov acted primarily as a historian of the three-story U-shaped giant house № 38 on Erkindik. Now there is an educational building of KSU named after Arabaev. And once there was a huge dormitory – mostly teachers of the Kyrgyz Pedagogical Institute named after Mikhail Frunze, which became a university in 1951, lived, this is the current KNU named after Zhusup Balasagyn.
Future academicians and doctors of science were found here, as well as celebrities of that time. Historian Dzhamgerchinov, mathematicians Kuznetsov Sr., Sukhomlinov, Bykov, Friev, Khairov, philologist Aret, ichthyologist Turdakov, philosophers Narynbaev and Saliev.
View of the boulevard from the windows of the professor's rooms – one of the most beautiful in the world, but an unsightly common toilet with 10 seats – in the courtyard of the dorm. A couple of families built themselves a summer shower in the same yard, the rest went to the nearest city bathhouse once a week.
And everyone had not dozens, but many hundreds of books, most of their salaries were spent on them.
The first refrigerator in the house № 38 appeared only in the late 50s, the Sukhomlinovs became the lucky owners. Around the same time, the first car – tiny «Moskvich» of the dormitory commandant named Yatsik appeared in the house.
All residents of the professor's dorm received separate apartments only by 1962.
This is how many people once lived on this boulevard. Materially poor, but spiritually rich.
Therefore, there are more memorial plaques and monuments on Erkindik than on any other Kyrgyz street.
Now another book has appeared – a monument to the history of Dzerzhinka.
