Archive: November 7th, 2010
Yakov Nikiforovich Logvinenko was born on 23rd October,1896 in the Poltava province of Ukraine and his family moved to Pishpek in 1912. He was conscripted into the Imperial Army in the First World War and sent to the front. During the war he achieved the rank of corporal – but after the October Revolution he returned [...]
Alexey Illarionovich Ivanitsyn was a mechanic who participated in the 1905 revolution – and the Imperial authorities exiled him to Central Asia – where he arrived destitute and penniless.
Although in Soviet times, November 7th was a major holiday accompanied by parades and much merrymaking, in modern Kyrgyzstan it is a fairly subdued affair. Indeed, for several years following independence, the holiday was dropped from the list of official public holidays – being reinstated in 2004. Although official parades are no more, the Communist [...]
