The streets of southern capital » Which Names Streets of Almaty Are Called After |
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15 January 2014 | Views: 83 Let’s admit that most of citizens of Almaty and, moreover, guests of the south capital, in view of their busyness and rapid rhythm, rarely think of the names of streets where they move daily. People drive or walk, hurry or promenade, paying no attention to the names entitled to streets, alleyways, avenues and squares. In fact the names belong to distinguished persons who deserved the estimable place in the memory of generations. Opening the column “The streets of southern capital”, we want to tell or remind all readers of our website about the persons, who left an imprint on the history of Almaty and Kazakhstan by their remarkable life. |
News of program, The streets of southern capital » Street Named After Bassenov |
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23 July 2014 | Views: 1976 One of Almaty streets was named after Toleu Kulchamanovich Bassenov. The street is situated to the south of Timiryazev street and to the west of Zharokov street. Bassenov Toleu Kulchamanovich (1909-1976) The first Kazakh professional architect, honored builder of the Kazakh SSR, associate member of the Architecture Academy of USSR, one of the first scientist-pedagogues in the field of architecture, the founder of the Kazakh Architectural School, the first chairman of the Association of Architects of Kazakhstan. Bassenov was the initiator of the first Architectural Faculty foundation in the republic. He was born in Shalkar district of Aktobe region. Bassenov graduated the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineers and started his labor activity in the Construction Department of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Kazakh SSR. |
News of program, The streets of southern capital » Street Named after S. Luganskió |
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6 June 2014 | Views: 1471 One of Almaty streets, situated on the westward from Dostyk avenue, was named after Sergey Danilovich Luganskiy. Sergey Danilovich Luganskiy (1918—1977) The squadron commander of the 270th fighter air regiment (the 203rd fighter aviation division, the 1st assault aviation corps, the 5th air army, Steppe Front), doubly the Hero of the Soviet Union. Sergey Luganskiy was born on the 1st of October, 1918 in a rural family in Verniy city. In1936 he finished junior high school and worked as a gardener. In the same year Sergey was called to the Red Army and was directed by the komsomol ticket to the Orenburg Military Academy of Aviators, after the completion of which in 1938 he did military service in the 14th aviation brigade in Pskov. |
News of program, The streets of southern capital » Mirzo Ulugbek Street |
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12 March 2014 | Views: 1503 One of the streets of Almaty is named after Mirzo Ulugbek, which is located to the west of Altynsarin Street and to the north of Abay Avenue (previously named as Domostroitelnaya Street). Mirzo Ulugbek (1394-1449) Mirzo Muhammad Ibn Shahrukh Ibn Timur Ulugbek Guragan – the grandson of the great conqueror Tamerlane – was a ruler of Timurids’ Turkic state, an outstanding astronomer and astrologer. He was born on the 22nd of March, 1394 in Sultaniya city during five-year campaign of his grandfather Timur (Tamerlane). Interesting facts about great astronomer’s life According to legend, in childhood Ulugbek visited the ruins of famous Nasir al-Din al-Tusi observatory in Maraga. It impressed the curious boy so much, and triggered his ardour for astronomy. |
The streets of southern capital » Street named after G. Mustafin |
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15 January 2014 | Views: 1418 Since 1986 one of the Almaty streets, which is situated on the west from Navoi street and on the north from the First President’s Park of the Republic of Kazakhstan, was named after Gabiden Mustafin. Mustafin Gabiden (1902–1985) Famous Kazakh theorist of literature Takhavi Akhtanov named Gabiden Mustafin “The writer of newborn people”. The word “revival” conforms not only social and cultural shifts which took place in the Kazakh society, it gave us the pleiad of unique and original talents, Gabiden Mustafin belonged to the same pleiad. “Powerful wave of spontaneous people’s talents flushed, fading art of nomads, already covered by ash, sparked off as the bright flame”. Gabiden Mustafin, people’s writer of the Republic of Kazakhstan, was born on November 26, 1902 in a modest family of a herdsman, he spent his childhood in the overgrown with caragana locality, called Sartobe, at the bottom of Zhauyr-Tau mountain ( presently Telmanovsky district of Karaganda region). The name of this place is translated in the Russian language as “yellow bald mountain”. The most cheerful impression of his childhood was the rapid and wayward Nura steppe river. From thousand-verst vastness surrounding steppes his small native land was notable only for the Spassky copper plant, which attracted the inquisitive boy’s attention. |