Ata-Beyit
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The Ata Beyit Memorial Complex () is a memorial site and cemetery near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Located in Chong-Tash, Ata Beyit, meaning "Grave of our Fathers" in the Kyrgyz language, is currently the site of many notable burials.
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It is catalogued under topics including 2000 sculptures, Cemeteries in Kyrgyzstan and Monuments and memorials in Bishkek.
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Key facts
- Park.name
- Ata Beyit
- Park.photo
- File:Ata-Beyit Memorial near Bishkek 03-2016 img01.jpg
- Park.photo_width
- 300
- Park.photo_caption
- The monument in March 2016.
- Park.location
- Chong-Tash, Alamüdün District, Chüy Region, Kyrgyzstan
- Park.operator
- City of Bishkek
- Park.status
- All year
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- memorial
- Country
- Kyrgyzstan
- Located in
- Süymönkul Çokmorov
- Image
- Ata-Beyit Memorial near Bishkek 03-2016 img01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ata Beyit
- inception
- 2000-00-00
- commemorates
- Stalinist repression
- commissioned by
- Askar Akayev
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The Ata Beyit Memorial Complex () is a memorial site and cemetery near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Located in Chong-Tash, Ata Beyit, meaning "Grave of our Fathers" in the Kyrgyz language, is currently the site of many notable burials.
== History == Located 30 kilometres from the capital, it was built in 2000 on the initiative of the first President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev in memory of the victims of the repressions in the village by Soviet authorities. When Kyrgyzstan was then known as the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic in 1938, Chong-Tash was the site of executions carried out against Central Asian nationalist movements by the NKVD (secret police) during the Great Purge ordered by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leader. The killings remained largely covered up by the Committee for State Security of the Kyrgyz SSR until the site was rediscovered in 1991 and its caretaker (who had been sworn to secrecy by the KGB) revealed the location of the grave to his daughter following the dissolution of the USSR. On 30 August 1991, a state sponsored mourning ceremony for the remains some of the victims was held. The following day, the independence and sovereignty of Kyrgyzstan was proclaimed.
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