Street of the XXII Party Congress

Photo from the album “City of Frunze”, 1978. The central street of the city holds the record for the number of renamings: Kupecheskaya, Grazhdanskaya, Stalin, XXII Party Congress, Leninsky Prospect, Chui Avenue. The construction and improvement of the street took place especially widely in the fifties. The House of Artists, the House of Trade Unions, the Oktyabr cinema, the Son-Kul cafe, a financial and economic technical school, the first panoramic cinema Russia in Central Asia, the building of industrial ministries, and the buildings of the Academy of Sciences of the Kirghiz SSR were built. Large specialized stores opened: “Central Department Store”, “Children’s World”, “Furniture”, “House of Clothes”, etc. In the east, across the Alamedin River, a thermal power plant and a worsted and cloth factory were built. The architectural ensemble of Sovetskaya Square took shape. Here are located the buildings of the City Executive Committee, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Committee for Construction, the Polytechnic College and the Kyrgyz State Order of the Red Banner of Labor Philharmonic named after. Toktogul. Monuments to “Friendship of Peoples” and “Fighters of the Revolution” were unveiled. In the 80s, a square named after them was built in the city center. V.I. Lenin, later renamed Ala-Too Square.