Ata-Beyit

The Ata Beyit Memorial Complex () is a memorial site and cemetery near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Located in Chong-Tash, Ata Beyit, meaning "Grave of our Fathers" in the Kyrgyz language, is currently the site of many notable burials.

== History == Located 30 kilometres from the capital, it was built in 2000 on the initiative of the first President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev in memory of the victims of the repressions in the village by Soviet authorities. When Kyrgyzstan was then known as the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic in 1938, Chong-Tash was the site of executions carried out against Central Asian nationalist movements by the NKVD (secret police) during the Great Purge ordered by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leader. The killings remained largely covered up by the Committee for State Security of the Kyrgyz SSR until the site was rediscovered in 1991 and its caretaker (who had been sworn to secrecy by the KGB) revealed the location of the grave to his daughter following the dissolution of the USSR. On 30 August 1991, a state sponsored mourning ceremony for the remains some of the victims was held. The following day, the independence and sovereignty of Kyrgyzstan was proclaimed.