August – commemorations and anniversaries – 2013

August 1st, 2013 Sections: The Year in Kyrgyzstan

Calendar

People often ask me about how I keep track of all the special days and anniversaries that feature in my postcards … and the answer is that I try to keep a diary of them.

Actually, the diary has a lot of other entries … but here I have extracted the entries that have some specific connection with the International community or to Kyrgyzstan

I must confess that I am not that good at keeping it up to date … every time I come across a new date or Commemorative Day, then I should reach for the computer and load the diary file to make an addition … but more often than not I happen to be away from my desk and the computer and so the new entry gets put onto one side and eventually over looked.

Then again, we don’t know, (that is, I can’t find), all of the dates … as a result the selection is quite eclectic … there is a lot missing and sometimes, when I go back to look over the list, I ask myself, “why on earth did I include that entry?” … so,  if anyone wants to help me fill in the gaps I will be very grateful.

The entries take the form:

Date

  • Public Holidays
  • Special Days such as Professional Holidays
  • International Commemorative Days – those officially recognized by the UN – which means they are normally marked in Kyrgyzstan
  • Other miscellaneous anniversaries or commemorations
  • The day in History – events connected with Kyrgyzstan, mainly Births and Deaths

Moveable feasts – where the dates change from year to year – are in italics.

 

Aug 1st

  •  Ramadan - a month of fasting fixed in the lunar Islamic Calendar – this year from 9th July to the 8th August 

Aug 2nd

  • Ramadan - a month of fasting fixed in the lunar Islamic Calendar – this year from 9th July to the 8th August 
  • Memorial Day (US) – First Friday – this year 2nd August

Aug 3rd

  • Ramadan - a month of fasting fixed in the lunar Islamic Calendar – this year from 9th July to the 8th August 
  • 1983 – Death of the writer Shatman Sadybakasov

Aug 4th

  • Ramadan - a month of fasting fixed in the lunar Islamic Calendar – this year from 9th July to the 8th August 
  • Railway Workers’ Day – First Sunday (Professional Holiday) – this year 4th August
  • 1922 – Death of the Turkish General Enver Pasha

Aug 5th

  • Ramadan - a month of fasting fixed in the lunar Islamic Calendar – this year from 9th July to the 8th August 
  • 1952 - The establishment the Mayakovskiy Teachers Training College (now the Arabaev University)

Aug 6th

  • Ramadan - a month of fasting fixed in the lunar Islamic Calendar – this year from 9th July to the 8th August 
  • 1905 - Mass meeting and disturbances in Pishpek
  • 1942 – Cholponbai Tuloberdiev dies covering the recess in an enemy bunker using his body – an act for which he is awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
  • 1999 – First Batken incursion

Aug 7th

  • Ramadan - a month of fasting fixed in the lunar Islamic Calendar – this year from 9th July to the 8th August 
  • Orozo Ait (Public Holiday) – fixed according to the Islamic Lunar Calendar – this year 8th August
  • 1905 – The People’s Protest
  • 1947 – Birth of the former Prime Minister – Amangeldy Muraliyev
  • 2000 – Opening of The Silk Road Lodge

Aug 8th

  • Ramadan - a month of fasting fixed in the lunar Islamic Calendar – this year from 9th July to the 8th August  
  • Orozo Ait (Public Holiday) – fixed according to the Islamic Lunar Calendar – this year 8th August
  • 1896 – Birth of the Kyrgyz national actor and the humorist, Sharshen Termechikov
  • 1924 – Opening of the railway in Pishpek
  • 1942 – Death of the akyn Sharshen Termechikov

Aug 9th

  • 1926 – Birth of the literary critic, E.K.Ozmitel
  •  International Day of the World’s Indigenous People

Aug 10th

  • 1916 – Birth of the poet, Kamchy Junusov

Aug 11th

  • Day of the Builder (Professional Holiday) Second Sunday in August – this year 11th August
  • 1911 – Sack of the Svetly Mys Monastery (by the Gregorian Calendar – 30th July in the Julian Calendar)
  • 1931 – Birth of the Kyrgyz writer, Abziy Kydyrov

Aug 12th

  • Day of the workers in the Criminal Correction System (Professional Holiday)
  • International Youth Day
  • 1994 – Death of the musician, Ryspai Abdykadirov

Aug 13th

Aug 14th

Aug 15th

  • 1896 – Birth of the akyn, Toktonaly Shabdanbaev
  • 1922 - Birth of T. Abdumomunov, the known Kyrgyz playwright, the honoured worker of arts of Kyrgyzstan, the winner of the state award by a name of Toktogul
  • 1924 – Birth of the novelist and poet Zuura Sooronbaeva
  • 1945 – Birth of the Kyrgyz Science Fiction writer Begenas Sartov
  • 1951 – Birth of the poet and the critic, Abdykapar Egemberdiev

Aug 16th

 

Aug 17th

  •  Day of Employees in the Drug Control Authority (Professional Holiday)
  • 1942 - The organisation of the Kyrgyz state opera and ballet theatre by a name of A.Maldybaev on the basis of is musical-drama theatre
  • 1971 – Commissioning of the Hotel “Kyrgyzstan” – now the Hyatt
  • 1974 – TsUM Aichurek opens in Frunze

Aug 18th

 

Aug 19th

  • World Photograph Day
  • World Humanitarian Day
  • 1907 - Birth of A.Kuttubaev, Kyrgyz national artist
  • 1991 – Moscow coup attempt

Aug 20th

  • 1922 – First airplane arrives in Pishpek

Aug 21st

  • 1961 – Birth of former Prime Minister Igor Chuidinov

Aug 22nd

  • 1936 – Birth of the theatrical critic and the translator Avas Syrymbetov

Aug 23rd

  • International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition

Aug 24th

  • Day of the Interior Ministry (Professional Holiday)
  • 1921 – Birth of the Kyrgyz national painter Jakyp Kojakmatov
  • 2008 - Crash of the Bishkek-Tehran flight at Manas airport killing 68 passengers and crew

Aug 25th

  • Miners’ Day – last Sunday (Professional Holiday) – this year 31st August
  • Kiss and Make up Day
  • 1227 – Death of Genghis Khan
  • 1991 – Communist Party of the Kyrgyz SSR dissolved

Aug 26th

  •  National Dog Day

Aug 27th

 

Aug 28th

  • 1938 – Birth of the novelist Asanbek Stamov

Aug 29th

  • 1991 - The Supreme Soviet of the KSSR adopts a resolution dissolving the Communist Party

Aug 30th

Aug 31st

  •  Independence Day (Public Holiday)
  • 1873 – Death of Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko
  • 1878 – Approval of the “Draft City Plan” for Pishpek
  • 1896 – Birth of Toktonaliev Shabdanbaev
  • 1902 – Birth of the Kyrgyz General Ysakbek Moniev
  • 1991 – The Jogorku Kenesh adopts the Declaration of political independence of Kyrgyzstan

 

Notes

  • Ramadan - a month of fasting fixed in the lunar Islamic Calendar – this year from 9th July to the 8th August 
  • Memorial Day (US) – First Friday – this year 2nd August
  • Orozo Ait (Public Holiday) – fixed according to the Islamic Lunar Calendar – this year 8th August
  • Railway Workers’ Day – First Sunday (Professional Holiday) – this year 4th August
  • Day of the Builder (Professional Holiday) Second Sunday in August – this year 11th August
  • Miners’ Day – last Sunday (Professional Holiday) – this year 25th August

 

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