"He grabbed grenades on the fly and threw them at the Nazis" — letters about the exploits of Kyrgyzstanis

The names of Dair Asanov, Nikolai Ananyev, Cholponbai Tuleberdiev, Duishenkul Shopokov, Grigory Konkin and some other Kyrgyzstanis who forged victory in the Great Patriotic War are known both in our country and abroad. But this material will talk about lesser-known heroes.

"Moscow knows, Moscow will not forget..."

As Leonid Sumarokov, candidate of historical sciences, director of the Center for Historical and Cultural Heritage of the KRSU, said, in 1942, when the battles for Stalingrad were taking place, the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper published an article "Kyrgyz" by the outstanding Soviet journalist Ilya Ehrenburg. Read in full