Bakay-Ata

Bakaiata ( Kyrgyz Бакайата until 1992 Leninpol ) is a village in the Talas region near the town of Talas in Kyrgyzstan. The nine -kilometer settlement on the mountain chain along Böltök, between the mountain rivers Urmaral and Kumuschtak was given its present name in 1992 after the independence of the Kyrgyz Republic. Until that time the village was called for 60 years Leninpol. This too was a new appointment after four previously independent Plautdietsch villages were summarized.

History

At this point in the Talas Valley were German Mennonites in 1882 by the governor of Turkestan in Tashkent allocated land for the settlement. In month-long treks they came with horse and cart, mostly from the villages of Molotscha settlement in southern Russia and the Volga. With the approval of the competent district administration in Aulie -Ata (now the city of Taras in Kazakhstan), the immigrants founded four small villages called Köppental, Nikolaipol, Gnadental and Gnadenfeld. In the entry in the register of Russian settlements in Central Asia in 1893, this German names were not recognized, and three of the four villages were given Russian names: Köppental was Romanowka, Gnadental was Andreewka, and Gnadenfeld was Vladimirovka. Only Nikolaipol retained its old name. Gnadenfeld / Vladimirovka consisted of seven villages at the time and therefore got from the Kirghiz a second name - Djetykibit ( Kyrgyz for seven houses).

During the next 40 to 50 years German were the majority in these villages, and the vernacular was Plautdietsch ( Low German ). The classroom and the language of the Church were from 1882 to 1938 always high German. Then German was replaced in the classroom by the Russian language and the church closed.

With the development of the land between the villages over time the four small settlements grew together gradually, and in 1931 they were united under the name Leninpol. Simultaneously, the Rajonverwaltung ( district administration ) came to Leninpol.

The Germans in Leninpol gradually became a minority, because during the war years German men and women were sent to forced labor, while at the same carat Schaen deported from the Caucasus were settled in the village within the next 30 to 40 years. Then there was the late 1950s, the relocation and integration of Kyrgyz villages ( Schapak and Chon - Alysch ) to Leninpol. The immigration of other Kyrgyz from other villages and to the partial settlement of Germans in other areas, the ethnic relations shifted further to the detriment of the German minority.

Mid-1980s were still living in Leninpol almost 4000 German. During the following 20 years, since the beginning of perestroika in the former Soviet Union, then almost all of them left the village. The majority went as emigrants to Germany. The Russians settled majority until the mid- 1990s from Leninpol / Bakaiata to Russia.

The official language, as well as school tuition, in Bakaiata are Kyrgyz Kyrgyzstan since independence in 1991. Some years later, the Russian language has been approved as a second state language in the country. Then, in 1997, opened a private school in Bakaiata, with education in the Russian language. Even in the former middle school education is partially carried out again in Russian since 2002.

Former residents of the villages in the Talas Valley, who now live in Germany, have received good connection to their homeland and have there old friends. Dozens of mutual visits as private guests or tourists are held every year.