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JOOMART BOKONBAEV 16. 05. 1910 — 01. 07. 1944

Joomart Bokonbaev is a renowned Kyrgyz poet and playwright. He was born on 16 May 1910 in Mazar-Say village in what is presently Toktogul district of Osh province. Joomart’s parents died early, and the boy spent two years (1924 – 1926) in Kogart orphanage near Jalal Abad town. He studied first in Osh pedagogic technical school, then at Frunze pedagogic technical school (1928 – 1931). He attended Communist institute of Journalism in Moscow for two years, from 1933 until 1935.

Bokonbaev’s poem entitled “Jer algan kedeylerge” (“To poor who obtained the land”) was published in an Osh newspaper in 1927. The poem bears on one of the most important events in the life of Kyrgyz peasantry – land and water reform in the South of Kyrgyzstan.

He commenced his professional career in 1931 as a department head in the “Kyzyl Kyrgyzstan” (“Red Kyrgyzstan”) newspaper editorial office. Bokonbaev’s first collection of poetry was published in 1933 under the title “Emgek toylyu” (“Birth of labor”). The theme of labor and enthusiastic work prevails in Bokonbaev’s written heritage; he is among the first Kyrgyz poets who introduced images of common peasants, working people, viewing them as “the salt of the earth”.

From 1935 until 1941 he worked as an editor of the “Leninchil Zhash” (“Lenin’s Youth”) news paper and an editor-in-chief of “Sovettik adabiyat jana iskusstvo” (“Soviet literature and art”) magazine.

In 1941 Joomart Bokonbaev enrolls as a volunteer in the Red Army and becomes an editor of a battery’s newspaper “For Motherland, forward!”

One of Bokonbaev’s masterpieces is his large poem “Altyn Kyz” (“Golden Girl”), printed in 1935. The poem served as a basis for “Aichurek” opera libretto, but also for “Semetei” theatre play, and was also made into a separate musical drama. Both “Altyn Kyz” and “Aichurek” received considerable attention during the First decade of Kyrgyz Art and Culture in Moscow in April 1939. “Altyn Kyz” poem was published in the Russian language in 1936. Several collections of poems were also published in the ensuing years.

Bokonbaev’s many poems are in the obligatory reading lists for Kyrgyz schools and humanities departments in universities. Some works were set to music and became popular folk songs. Bokonbaev also translated a number of works by Shota Rustaveli, Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov into the Kyrgyz language.

Bokonbaev was distinguished by “Token of Honor” state award.

Bokonbaev was killed in a car accident during secondment mission for filming “Manas” epic.

Joomart Bokonbaev’s monument is placed in the Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, on the Erkindik Boulevard. A number of schools, libraries and streets are named after Bokonbaev, as well as a village in Ton district of Issykkul province.

In 2010, animation studio “5palcev” created an animation cartoon “Silnye dukhom krepche steny” (“Strong-willed are stronger than walls”), with scenario based on Joomart Bokonbaev’s poem “Chepten erdin kuchu bek”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_psOu2gc5M. The cartoon was dedicated to 65th anniversary of the Soviet Victory in the Second World War and to the 100th anniversary of Joomart Bokonbaev.

Publications in Kyrgyz language

Altyn Kyz. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1933. – 48 p.

Emgek Toylyu: Yrlar zhyinagy. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1933. – 25 p.

Ak menen kara altyn: Yrlar zhyinagy. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1934. – 40 p.

Dobulbas: Yrlar zhyinagy. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1935. – 80 p.

Altyn Kyz: Poema zhana yrlar.– Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1934. – 32 p.

Joomartyn yrlary. Yrlar zhyinagy. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1936. – 178 p.

Altyn Kyz: Poema.– Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1938. – 79 p.

Komuz: Yrlar zhyinagy. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1938. – 142 p.

Aichurek: 6 suyrottuu opera. - Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1939. – 16 p.

Altyn Kyz– Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1939. –58 p.

Baldar uchun yrlar.– Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1939. – 23 p.

Sbornik detskih stikhov. Kargasha. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1939. – 31 p.

Barier. Toktogul. Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1939. – 50 p.

Toktoguldun omuru. Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1939. – 78 p.

Yrlar. Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1939. – 212 p.

Aichurek: 6 suyrottuu opera. - Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1940. – 16 p.

Toktoguldun omuru. Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1940. – 80 p.

Byurkyut tangshydy.— Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1942. – 51 p.

Adzhal menen arnamys. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1943. – 38 p.

Kagylayin tuugan zher: Yrlar zhyinagy – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1943. – 38 p.

Chabuul: zhany yrlar. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1944. – 32 p.

Чабуул: жаңы ырлар. Yrlar zhana poemalar zhyinagy. — Ф.: Кыргызмамбас, 1946.— 355 p.

Sbornik stikhov I poemy. Chygarmalarynyn toluk zhyinagy: 2 tomduk: 1 t. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1950. – 343 p.

Chygarmalar: 2t. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1954. – 272 p.

Adzhal menen arnamys: Poema. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1958. – 76 p.

Adzhal menen arnamys. Chepten erdin kyuchyu bek: yrlar, tamsilder zhana poemalar. – Frunze: Kyrgyzokuupedmambas, 1959. – 92 p.

Sila khrabretsa krepche kreposti. Chygarmalar. – Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1960. – 319 p.

Omyur: yrlar. – Frunze: Kyrgyzokuupedmambas, 1960. – 136 p.

Kyrgyzdyn AlaToosu: yrlar zhyinagy. – Frunze: Mektep, 1968. – 74 p.

Kirgizskie AlaToo. Tandalgan chygarmalarynyn 2 tomgugu: 1 – 2 t. – Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1973. – 532 p.

Кыргыздын АлаТоосу: Ырлар жыйнагы. — Ф.: Мектеп, 1968. — 74 б.

Izbrannye proizvedeniya v 2-h tomah. Altyn kyz: drama. – Frunze: Mektep, 1976. – 48 p.

Adzhal menen arnamys: poema. – Frunze: Mektep, 1979. – 40 p.

Tandalmalar: yrlar zhana poemalar. - – Frunze: Kyrgyzstan,1980. – 328 p.

Torgoi menen zhagalmay: tamsilder. - – Frunze: Mektep, 1983. – 28 p.

Publications in the Russian language

Zolotaya devushka. – Frunze: Kirgizgosizdat, 1936. – 39 p.

Komuz: izbrannye stikhi. – M.: Sovetskii pisatel, 1947. – 95 p.

Izbrannye stikhi. - Frunze: Kirgizgosizdat, 1955. – 68 p.

Izbrannoe: stikhi i poemy. – Frunze: Kirgizgosizdat, 1958. – 319 p.

Zhavoronok i Yastreb: Basni. – Frunze: Mektep, 1984. – 39 p.