President Jeenbekov: We are proud of history of our people, who gave world great men

Bishkek, June 30, 2019. /Kabar/. "We are rightly proud of the history of our people, who have given the world great men," Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov said at the event, dedicated to the 130th anniversary of Kaaba uulu Kozhomkul, which was held in Chui Oblast.
He said that the persons whose names are inscribed in golden letters in the chronicles of the people and whose bright memory people always treat with deep respect, are real adornments of Kyrgyz ancient history.
"We are proud to be the heirs of great personalities, that we are the people who gave the world culture of our great contemporary Chyngyz Aitmatov."
The Kyrgyz President has sincerely congratulated everyone on the 130th anniversary of the glorious Kaba uula Kozhomkul.
Kaba uulu Kozhomkul (1888 - 1955) - Kyrgyz strongman, worked as chairman of the Committee of the Poor in Suusamyr region, then head of the land department in Kara-Balta region and chairman of the executive committee of the Kokomeren village council.
For more than thirty years he was the head of the collective and state farms and the chairman of the village council.
He is known among the Kyrgyz people that in Suusamyr he raised a heavy stone, loaded a horse on himself, carried it over the pass, pulled out a camel sinking in a swamp, freed a mountain trail from a huge stone the size of a large yurt.
By the end of the 1920s, he was unrivalled in all of Kyrgyzstan.