Frunze

Manas Air Base outside the capital city Bishkek (called Frunze in the Soviet days, after the architect of the Red Army) is key to the Afghan War.

William Bradley: Obama's Big New AfPak Problems 2010

Manas Air Base outside the capital city Bishkek (called Frunze in the Soviet days, after the architect of the Red Army) is key to the Afghan War.

Obama's Big New AfPak Problems 2010

From 1926 to 1991 it was Frunze, which is not problematic except for the Kyrgyz—see below, Frunze being the name of a local boy who became a Soviet general.

languagehat.com: BISHKEK/PISHPEK. 2004

Bishkek (formerly known as Frunze) is situated in the north of Kyrgyzstan on the edge of the Kyrgyz Alatau Mountains, an arm of the mighty Tian Shan range.

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On January 25-26, 1990, many thousands of members of the Ashar movement and their supporters gathered on Ala-Too Square in Bishkek (then called Frunze) to demand more housing and jobs for ethnic Kyrgyz living in the capital, increasing the role of the Kyrgyz language in the republic, and ending the persecution of leaders of the their movement.

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010

Last Wednesday, April 15, due to damage of the high-voltage power line Toktogul-Frunze (the largest line in the Kyrgyz Republic), most enterprises and even strategic buildings in towns of the northern Kyrgyzstan and southern Kazakhstan were in blackout.

Global Voices in English » Kazakhstan: Blackout in Almaty 2009

(Which was named Frunze when mountainous Kyrgyzstan was a Soviet socialist republic, after one of the key founders of the Red Army.)

William Bradley: Obama Does Moscow, and Vice Versa 2009

They stopped in faraway Frunze, in Kirgizistan, where Kaminska gave birth to her son, Victor.

Esther Rachel Kaminska. 2009

Angry students in Frunze, the Kirgiz capital, demanded that the local leadership resign and pelted the Communist Party chief with rocks when he appeared at a rally to appeal for calm.

Hot Summer For Moscow 2008

One: the acccount of Pishpek aka Frunze aka Bishkek, which is about the capital of Kyrgyzstan reverting to a pre-Soviet name.

Doing the tell Ray Girvan 2004