Chyngyz Aitmatov street to be appeared in Yekaterinburg

Bishkek, July 30, 2018 / Kabar /. Chyngyz Aitmatov street will be appeared in the youngest district of Yekaterinburg - Academic - to the 90th anniversary of the writer's birth, which is celebrated in December, TASS reported citing to head of the press-service of Yekaterinburg city administration Anatoly Karmanov. "A new street in the Academic is planned to be named after Chyngyz Aitmatov, who visited Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in October 1975," Karmanov said. Also, a sculpture of Tanabai, the hero of the story "Farewell, Gulsary," written by Aitmatov in 1966, will be installed in Yekaterinburg. In addition, literary readings, book exhibitions and a scientific and practical conference will be held in Yekaterinburg. A memorial plaque will be opened on the city's House of Journalists, where there is a sign that Aitmatov visited Sverdlovsk. The Academic District is being built in the south-west of Yekaterinburg in an area of ​​1.3 thousand hectares. It is estimated that more than 325 thousand people will live there. This is one of the pilot investment projects that the Russian government has included in the programs of state support for mass housing construction. Chyngyz Aitmatov is the author of dozens of works, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of Lenin and three State Prizes of the USSR, People's Writer of the Kirghiz SSR. His books have been translated into 150 languages. Streets in Bishkek, Kazan, Ankara, Baku, Astana, Luxemburg, Tashkent, a number of objects in Moscow and St. Petersburg are named after Chyngyz Aitmatov.