Paper abstract:

On August 30, 1991, a state funeral ceremony was held in the Chon-Tash area for the reburial of the remains of the victims of Stalinist repressions.

Stalinist repressions, the apogee of which was precisely during this period of the most massacres. The era of "personnel purges", "enemies of the people", fabricated cases, denunciations and repressions, the period of "dekulakization"

and the beginning of deportations of "harmful elements", which spread even to the punishment of individual ethnic

groups.

An attempt to restore justice, the right to one's own tragic history has become the mission of the entire

life for Byubura Kydyralieva and Bolot Abdrakhmanov, then the captain of the national

security, who personally shared the mission of preserving the memory of the Tomb of the Fathers. In many ways, it was thanks to them that the memory of Ata-Beyit was preserved, and then recognized at the official level. Exactly

from this period, the official, at the state level, memorialization of "Ata-Beyit" begins.

A commission was created, excavations began, and the official registration of the place of memory began. It is symbolic that the remains of 138 secretly buried were exhumed and reburied precisely on the eve of the declaration of independence of Kyrgyzstan - August 30, 1991. In 2000, the Ata-Beyit Memorial Complex was built here, which included:

a sculptural composition and a museum, a brick kiln - the place where 137 people were shot and initially buried; monument-memorial.

Since 2000, November 8 has been celebrated as a day of remembrance for the victims of the repressions of 1937-1938.