January – commemorations and anniversaries – 2014

January 1st, 2014 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, (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. 

Jan 1st

  • New Year (Public Holiday)
  • Global Family Day
  • 1893– Birth of the general and Hero of the Soviet Union I. V. Panfilov (J – 20/12/92)
  • 1918 – Ivanitzyn leads a Boshelvik coup seizing power in Pishpek
  • 1932 – Birth of the playwright Bakai Omuraliev
  • 1935 – Opening of the State Picture Gallery – now the Museum of Fine Arts
  • 1944 – Birth of the politician Jumabek Ibraimov
  • 1967 – “Kyrgyzstan Madaniyaty” newspaper first published
  • 1974 – First edition of the newspaper Evening Frunze – now Evening Bishkek
  • 1975 – the first turbine of the Toktogul hydroelectric power station gives current
  • 1992 – The Soviet Union formally ceases to exist
  • 2008 – Ferghana valley earthquake

Jan 2nd

Jan 3rd

Jan 4th

Jan 5th

  • 1837 – Birth of linguist and translator of the Manas Epic, V.V. Radlov
  • 1925 – Alexei Ivanitsin- leader of the Pishpek Bolsheviks that took over the government on 1st January 1918, is executed in Tashkent as a “class enemy”.

Jan 6th

  • Epiphany (Western)

Jan 7th

Jan 8th

  • 1993 – Birth of the violist Djumash Durusaliev

Jan 9th

  • Baptism of Jesus (Western)

Jan 10th

Jan 11th

Jan 12th

  • 1941 – Birth of the film director Bolot Shamshiev
  • 1941 – Birth of the musician Ryspai Abdykadyrov

Jan 13th

  • Old New Year
  • Coming of age Day – Japan – Second Monday – this year 13th January
  • Clean off your desk day – Second Monday – this year 13th January
  • 1951 – Opening of the first trolleybus line in Frunze.

Jan 14th

  • 1827 – Birth of the Russian Explorer Pyotr Semyenov (Tienshanskiy) – according to the Gregorian Calendar
  • 1932 – Birth of the poet B. Sarnogoev
  • 1994 – Adoption of the Gerp, (State Seal)

Jan 15th

  • 1887 – Opening of the Osh Russian Native School – the first in Kyrgyzstan
  • 1906 – Birth of the writer Murkai Elebaev
  • 1926 – Birth of the akyn Ergeshbai Uzakbaev
  • 1931 –  Birth of the author Tologon Kasimnekov
  • 1956 –  Birth of the author Adbyldazhan Akmataliev
  • 1970 – Birth of the politician Omurek Babanov
  • 1994 – Death of the actress B. Kydykeeva (or Dec 30th 1993?)

Jan 16th

  • 1936 – Birth of the playwright Beksultan Djakiev
  • 1936 – Birth of the dramatist and novelst Beksultan Djakiev
  • 2010 – Death of the statesman and public figure Kazi Dikambaev

Jan 17th

  • Customer Service Day
  • 1855 – the oath of allegiance to the Russian Empire by the Pre-Issyk Kulskiy Kyrgyz

Jan 18th

  • 1944 –  Siege of Leningrad lifted

Jan 19th

  • Orthodox Epiphany
  • Koopaniya Na Krisheniya (Orthodox Baptism of Jesus)
  • World Religion Day – Third Sunday – this year 19th January  
  • 1944 – Birth of the graphic artict Belek Kosheva

Jan 20th

  • Blue Monday (1) – Third Monday – this year 20th January
  • Blue Monday (2) –  Monday of the last full week in the month – this year 20th January
  • Martin Luther King Day – USA – Third Monday – this year 20th January

Jan 21st

Jan 22nd

  • 1948 – Unveiling of the Statue of Lenin in Lenin Square (on the edge of Oak Park where Erkindik interescts with Pushkin Street)
  • 1998 – Salizhan Sharipov, the Kyrgyz Astronaut, takes off on his first space flight

Jan 23rd

  • National Handwriting Day
  • 1892 – Birth of the playwright and director V. A. Shvemberger

Jan 24th

  • National Compliments Day
  • Opposite Day
  • 1962 – Establishment of the Maili Suu Electric Light Factory

Jan 25th

Jan 26th

Jan 27th

  • Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jan 28th

  • Data Protection Day
  • Fun at work Day
  • 1937 – Founding of the Kyrgyz Tepegraph company (KyrTag)
  • 1951 – Death of Carl Gustav Mannerheim, Marshall of Finland

Jan 29th

  • World Leprosy Day
  • Freethinkers Day

Jan 30th

  • 1811 – Birth of Kurmandjan Datka
  • 1992 – Kyrgyzstan joins OSCE, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Jan 31st

  • Chinese New Year – Lunar calendar – this year 31st January … The Year of the Horse
  • Birthday of Guru Har Rai (Sikh)
  • Inspire your heart with Art Day
  • 1941 – Resolution of the Supreme Soviet adopting the use of Cyrillic for written Kyrgyz
  • 1994 – first referendum on changes to the constitution adopted in May 1993

Notes

  • Coming of age Day – Japan – Second Monday – this year 13th January
  • Clean off your desk day – Second Monday – this year 13th January
  • Tu B’Shevat (Jewish) – 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat – this year 15th January
  • World Religion Day – Third Sunday – this year 19th January  
  • Blue Monday (1) – Third Monday – this year 20th January
  • Blue Monday (2) –  Monday of the last full week in the month – this year 20th January
  • Martin Luther King Day – USA – Third Monday – this year 20th January
  • Chinese New Year – Lunar calendar – this year 31st January … The Year of the Horse

 

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