Ak-Suu (Issyk-Kul Oblast)

The village of Ak-Suu is located in the eastern part of the Issyk-Kul region.

In the granite gorge Ak-Suu, the width of the bottom of which is 30-40 meters and the height of the slopes is about 300 meters, the river of the same name Ak-Suu flows. Not far from Djilanda - Issyk-Kul reserve of the Teploklyuchensky okrug - another flows into the Ak-Suu river - Arashan. Beyond the resort, the gorge is expanding, spruce - thuja forests, lonely barberry shrubs, wormwood and feather grass grow on the slopes of the gorge. Among its attractions there is a moraine-glacial lake and Kashka-Suu and two waterfalls 25 and 30 m high.

In the area of ​​Ak-Suu village there is a gorge called Altyn-Arashan, the gorge ends with the peak "Palatka", the height of which is 5022 m.

A road passes through the village of Ak-Suu to the Altyn-Arashan gorge.

In Ak-Suu there is a sanatorium for the rehabilitation of children with polio and suffering from cerebral palsy (opened in the late 1990s).

Ak-Suu resort has healing hot springs, mentioned by traveler Pyotr Semyonov-Tian-Shansky .

Since 2012, the State Museum of History and Local Lore named after Kydyr-ake ^[3] .

The village of Teploklyuchenko was founded, according to official data, at the end of the 19th century, but there is the only mention that the first house was founded in 1847. In addition, the date was preserved, carved on a stone in the mountains near this village, indicating that the Slavs lived in these places since the 30th year. It all started with the Ak-Sui fortification, a military garrison, later called the Teploklyuchenka. Strengthening existed from 1864 to 1869. In 1868, 14 families of peasant settlers settled. The official year of foundation of the Teploklyuchenko is 1879. First settlers settled on the right bank of the river. Ak - Suu, and at the end of the 19th century. - beginning of the 20th century settled on the left bank. In 1878 there were 70 yards and 423 inhabitants in the village, by 1913 there were 291 yards and 2604 inhabitants. Residents sowed wheat, oats, millet, grew vegetables, kept working horses, cattle and small cattle, including sheep of local breed. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, beekeeping and various crafts were bred. There were 14 water mills and an oil mill, 8 trading shops with an annual turnover of 14 thousand rubles, a parish school and a church school, where 73 boys and 56 girls studied. One of the oldest streets of the village used to be called a tract (Budenny S. M street). The tract connected the city of Przhevalsk with the village of Teploklyuchenko and continued until the very frontier outpost. The first shops appeared on this street, the first residents - the builders of the street: Panchenko, Manuilenko, Laskarev, Lykov, Trofimentsev, Trubitsyn, Sukhorukov. These first residents landscaped the street, decorated their homes with intricate carvings on shutters, back gate. Here, for the first time in the distant past, an orchard was laid down by a great lover and connoisseur of gardening Mikhail Potapenko. Many, following his example, tried to plant trees, and the village began to be buried in the greenery of flowering gardens. The names of the first migrant families settled in this area are known: Shcherbinin the Cossack, was sent from Poltava to search for suitable places for living (some descendants still live in the village), Pogrebnyak Peter the Cossack, served at the outpost, stayed and moved the family . From the Kharkov province; Mishchenko family - peasants from the Voronezh province; Goncharov family; and the Trofimentsev family. The Orthodox community in the village of Teploklyuchenko was organized in the middle of the 19th century, in those days, all immigrants from Russia, and these are Russians and Ukrainians, were Orthodox, with stable traditions of their faith. And the charter of the Orthodox community was familiar to all the villagers from a conscious age to old age. They were the first regular parishioners. The first services in the village took place in a cold church, later they built a felt one. These were wooden planks studded with felt for warmth. With the organization of an independent Turkestan diocese in 1871, a felt camp church was transferred from the village of Teploklyuchenko to a new county town, in which services were held until 1876. This temporary church in 1876 was buried (buried in the ground) in the courtyard of a stone church built by the Karakol people in the name of the Holy Trinity, destroyed during the earthquake of 1889. In 189, from 3 to 1895, a five-domed wooden temple was built, which was distinguished by the beauty of architecture and the interior decoration that exists today. Repair and restoration work in the existing church of the Teploklyuchenko village has been carried out since 2006, during which the foundation of the temple was examined from the eastern side of the altar. In the masonry, a copper plaque was preserved, measuring 10 cm by 15 cm. It was laid when illuminating the construction of the temple. The text on the tablet is gently squeezed out and the letters make up the voids. It appears from the text that the church of St. Great Martyr Dimitry of Solunsky in the village of Teploklyuchenko was founded on March 26, 1898 (date according to the old style) under the ruling bishop of Turkestan Arcadia. Thus, the exact date of the foundation of the current church in the village of Teploklyuchenko was determined. An old photograph of the temple has been preserved, in the foreground are men, in modest clothes and leather self-sewn boots, with thick beards, as expected, to be Orthodox Christians, and a little aside children's church choir of girls and boys with notes in their hands, in white aprons . In the center of the group is a priest. On the back there is a dedicatory inscription from the rector Andrei Vos ... ova (some letters are difficult to read) to the priest Andrei Agapov, dated April 22, 1913 (old style dates). The photo shows a beautiful temple with a high carved bell tower. Two large bells are visible in the large window openings. The central dome, a glazed octagonal decorated with carvings, is very clearly visible and there are four small turrets on the roof, small domes without windows, an octagonal shape with crosses at the top. It was this photo that served as the basis for the restoration in 2009 of the lost bell tower and the central dome with restored carvings. The pledged temple was completed in 1912, as evidenced by a wooden belfry discovered during restoration in the spring of 2009. The inscription was made by a red-hot iron on a tree by a certain John Schetinin on September 17, 1912. During the overhaul inside the church, which began on February 16, 2009, adobe partitions made in the Soviet era were removed. The interior of the temple has acquired its original form. The total area is approximately 400 square meters, the central part of the temple is more than 200 square meters, the height inside the temple is 3 m 60 cm, the ceiling throughout the temple is double, for warmth. Boards on the floor and ceiling were used with a thickness of 7-8 cm. The ceiling in the central part of the temple was supported by four cross-shaped columns. During the closing years of the temple, 2 columns were broken, they are currently restored, by building up the missing elements. All the inner walls of the temple were upholstered in shingles and plastered. The ceiling in all rooms is decorated with molding from local limestone. The molding under a layer of lime has several layers of painting, dark red. No mural was found anywhere. Outside, the temple was inhabited by planks 2 cm thick. On the south, north and west sides, 3 carved, high porches were built. The roof of the south and north porch was hipped, and rested on thick, carved logs, which made the porches light. The original porch, to date, has preserved the central western porch, it overlooked the main road. The northern porch was completely lost; it was destroyed in the postwar years. Southern restored in its present form in 2008. The whole temple is made of local, hand-chopped wood. Wooden blockhouse mounted on high brickwork. The temple in honor of the holy great martyr Dimitry of Solunsky in the village of Teploklyuchenko was built for about 14 years. In Soviet times, a teacher from a local school told students that the temple in the village had "rich decoration." These messages appear to be unfounded in some brief oral descriptions to this day. The current opinion is fundamentally wrong. The temple was completed until 1912-1913. In the opinion of V. D. Goryachev and S. Ya. Peregudov in the article “Christian Monuments of Kyrgyzstan (19-20 centuries)”, right up to the revolution, the establishment of Soviet power in the villages of Przhevalsky district took place in particularly difficult conditions ^[4] : the people with distrust of the new government, the Bai and Manapas fought against it. In the years 1921-1922, land-water reform and the beginning of land management were carried out, which caused a riot among the bays and manapas. Revolutionary committees were introduced which lasted until November 1923.

February 28, 1922 Przhevalsky district was renamed Karakol. Teploklyuchenskaya, Turgenskaya and Novo-Voznesenovka volosts were merged into one volost called Turgenskaya with a center in the village of Novo-Voznesenovka. The following villages were included in the Turgen volost: Teploklyuchenka, Eagle, Otradnoye, Razdolnaya, Sokolovskoye, Lizogubovka, Zindan, Ak-Bulak, Ak-Bulun, Novo-Voznesenovka, Bozuchuk, Ichke-Gerges, Konstantinovka, Kairma-Aryk, Saryash-Kamysh, Kareg Uch Kaynar.

On December 6, 1926, the territory of Kyrgyzstan was divided into 52 volosts, the Teploklyuchensky volost from half of Turgensky was formed. The Teploklyuchensky Volga Executive Committee ceased to exist in September 1, 1930, in connection with the liquidation of volosts and districts, and the formation of 24 districts with direct subordination to the Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

In 1939 Teploklyuchenka belonged to the Przhevalsky district (earlier to Karakolsky). In 1962, the Przhevalsky district was liquidated and the village was transferred to the Tyup district. This situation continued until 1971, when Ak-Suy district was formed.

Teploklyuchenko Village Council was formed in 1918 , and exists to this day .

From the very foundation, in the village of Ak-Suu, such sectors of the economy as beekeeping, animal husbandry and agriculture prevailed . Some of the peasants were engaged in grain processing.

According to the data for 1925, there were about 10,000 bee families in the Teploklyuchenko . But due to the weather conditions of 1926 there were about 5,000 bee families left, which negatively affected the rural economy, and beekeepers were left without a livelihood. The Karakol executive committee exempted the beekeeping farm from paying taxes and a loan until 1927. In 2015, owners of private apiaries continued to sell honey , propolis , bee bread and wax.

According to the 2009 census, 10,823 people lived in the village ^[5] .