Monument on the corner of Karpinsky and Nikitin streets

Monument on the corner of Karpinsky (Suyumbaeva) and Nikitin streets Monument on the corner of Karpinsky (Suyumbaeva) and Nikitin streets. Miraculously surviving tombstone from the old Christian cemetery from the grave of a railway worker. The cemetery functioned until 1935. Subsequently, a park was laid out on its territory and the Issyk-Kul cinema was built. An entire generation of the first settlers of the city of Pishpek - Frunze was buried in the unmarked graves of the old city cemetery. The destruction of the cemetery began in 1918, when cast iron cannons cast in St. Petersburg were stolen from the grave of the city elder Ilya Terentyev and installed in Oak Park on the mass grave of the Red Guards. In the 60s of the twentieth century, the Issyk-Kul cinema was built at the cemetery and a park was laid out. At the beginning of the 21st century, construction of the city’s main mosque began here.