New director of music boarding school in Bishkek appointed

12:51, 03 сентября 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Gulmira Makanbai kyzy

Raziya Syrdybaeva became a new Director of the Republican Secondary Special Music Boarding School named after Mukash Abdraev in Bishkek. The Ministry of Culture reported.

Candidate of Philology, folklorist, musicologist Raziya Syrdybaeva previously worked as a senior researcher at the Chingiz Aitmatov Institute of Language and Literature of the National Academy of Sciences. She is also known as the founder of Ustatshakirt Public Foundation.

In May, a video from the music boarding school in Bishkek was posted on social media. The video shows moldy walls, an untidy yard, a basement littered with garbage and old furniture used by children, a leaking ceiling, broken bathrooms.

The director of the institution, Isiradin Amanbaev, was removed from his post at the end of August.