Bishkek - Frunze monument
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09-Jul-2009
Giant monument in the city centre of Bishkek depicting Mikhail Frunze looking down on the spectators from his horse
Bishkek - Marx Engels monument
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09-Jul-2009
Monument of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in Oak park, that was placed to replace a Stalin monument
Bishkek - Maxim Gorky statue
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14-Jul-2009
Monument to the writer Maxim Gorky located in Gorky Park, behind the Palace of Sports
Bishkek - Felix Dzerzhinsky monument
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09-Jul-2009
Monument to KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinsky, it was moved from Oak Park to Tynystanova street in 1999
Bishkek - Ivan Panfilov monument
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14-Jul-2009
Monument dating to 1942 in honor of Kyrgyz and Soviet World War II hero Ivan Panfilov
Bishkek - Komsomol Heroes monument
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09-Jul-2009
Monument dedicated to the heroes of Komsomol of the 1920s and 1940s
Bishkek - Jumabek Ibraimov statue
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09-Jul-2009
Post Soviet monument to Ibraimov Jumabek, former mayor of Bishkek and prime minister of Kyrgyzstan from 1998 to 1999
Bishkek - Kojomkul monument
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14-Jul-2009
Monument from 1994 dedicated to Kojomkul, a legendary warrior of the Kyrgyz people and example to local sportsmen
Bishkek - Kasym Tynystanov statue
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14-Jul-2009
Statue of Kasym Tynystanov, a Kyrgyz scientist and pioneer of science, located in front of the National University
Bishkek - Aaly Tokombaev monument
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09-Jul-2009
Post Soviet monument to Aaly Tokombaev, a hero of Socialist Labour and recipient of the Order of Lenin
Bishkek - Alykul Osmonov monument
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09-Jul-2009
Post Soviet monument to national poet Alykul Osmonov
Bishkek - Constantine Yudakhin statue
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14-Jul-2009
Monument to Constantine Yudakhin, a Soviet linguist specialist in Turkic philology who worked on the development of a Soviet alphabet
Bishkek - Nasirdin Isanov statue
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14-Jul-2009
2003 monument to Nasirdin Isanov, the first Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan who died under suspicious circumstances in a car crash
Bishkek - Temirkul Umetaliev statue
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14-Jul-2009
Statue of Temirkul Umetaliev who was awarded the title of Peoples Poet of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic in 1968
Bishkek - Djoomart Bokonbaev bust
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1947 bust of poet and playwright Djoomart Bokonbaev, the monument was stolen in 2003 and beyond repair when later found
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