Przheval’sk uprising (14 août 1916 – 24 août 1916)

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In August, the Sarybaghysh tribe leader Mokush, son of the influential Shabdan Baatyr (Shabdan son of Jantai, 1839–1912), seized about 200 rifles and thousands of cartridges by ambushing a Russian convoy heading to Przheval’sk on the western Issyq-Kul shore. A few days later, Mokush described this feat in a letter to the Przheval’sk Kyrgyz, encouraging them to join the uprising. In the letter, Mokush claimed that Pishpek and Toqmaq had been destroyed. This call by an influential Kyrgyz family, claiming that the elimination of the Russian presence in the region was both possible and imminent, may have been the spark that led many Kyrgyz groups, including those in Przheval’sk district, to join the violence Collapsing p180

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