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Rapоport Avenue.

Trip on coast of Issyk Kul.

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It is unique Avenue Is scarlet - Limited liability partnership along Issyk Kul Route – Karakol - Progress begins from the city of Cholpon-Ata to the settlement. The initial name of the avenue - Rapoport Avenue. Length of the avenue is over 4,5 kilometers.
Trees - the silvery poplar and karagach prevails. Are put densely in 2 rows on both sides of the road. Length of the avenue is over 4,5 kilometers. Are put in 1934 by workers of stud at the initiative of his first director Leonid Lyvovich Rapoport (1899 - 1952).
"In the spring of 1926 there arrived in Chong-Uryukta a person in a military uniform of the cavalryman. Young, on a soldier's blouse - two awards of the Red Banner. All declared - the state number 54 is assigned to stud, he is appointed the director, Rapoport Leonid Lyvovich.
The political worker who arrived with it told that Rapoport in 20 years was the commissioner and the commander of a regiment of army of Budenny. For participation in Denikin's defeat awarded the order to him the first and personalized weapon.
And for the fact that it with the regiment of strappers of basmatches in Central Asia, he was awarded with the second, an award highest for those times. In five years the plant already had more than 10 thousand horses!
Scales of work shook the most skilled people. Their stud, one of the first socialist farms in Kyrgyzstan. "Leonid Lyvovich and to people tender was a good owner. In the first day he brought together people and told - we will put the poplars lane from Cholpon-At to the first office of the plant.
And it is nearly five km. "This avenue, - he explained, - will be a symbol of new life and memory of us for new generations". "The person has to love a tree in the same way as a horse - and then to it the price will not be!".
The avenue was put by several weeks - the whole families. Thin twigs were fragile, bent on wind, but all knew that if who breaks a twig or will tie to it a horse - it should speak with Rapoport."

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Authority:
 "Issyk Kul. Naryn" encyclopedia, Frunze, 1991. Kyrgyzstan, Mysl publishing house, Moscow, 1977. 1966. Bernshtam A. N. "Historical and archaeological sketches of the Central Tien Shan and Pamiro-Alay". http://www.pokolenie.kg

Photos
Alexander Petrov.