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Bishkek, Kyrgyz: Bishkek; IPA: [biS’kek]), previously known as Pishpek or Frunze is Kyrgyzstan's capital and largest city. Bishkek also serves as the administrative center of the Chuy Region. Although the city is located in the Chuy Region, it is not part the territory. The city is a Kyrgyzstan region-level unit. Bishkek is situated near the Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan border. It had 1,074,075 inhabitants in 2021. [4]
In 1825, the Khanate of Kokand established the fortress of Pishpek to control local caravan routes and to collect tribute from Kyrgyz tribes. On 4 September 1860, with the approval of the Kyrgyz, Russian forces led by Colonel Apollon Zimmermann [ru] destroyed the fortress. In the present day, the fortress ruins can be found just north of Jibek jolu street, near the new main mosque.[6] In 1868, a Russian settlement was established on the site of the fortress under its original name, Pishpek. It lay within the General Governorship of Russian Turkestan and its Semirechye Oblast.
The Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast, which was located in Russian Turkestan in 1925, promoted Pishpek as its capital. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union changed the name of the city Frunze in 1926 to honor Mikhail Frunze (1885-1925), a Bolshevik military leader. Frunze was named the capital of Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic in 1936 during the last stages of Soviet Union national delimitation. The Kyrgyz parliament changed Frunze's capital's name from Moscow to Bishkek in 1991.