Anan'yevo (; ) is a village in the

Issyk-Kul Region Issyk-Kul (, ) is one of the regions of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is Karakol. It is surrounded by Almaty Region, Kazakhstan to the north, Chüy Region to the west, Naryn Region to the southwest, and Xinjiang, China to the southeast. It takes ...

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyz ...

. It is part of the

Issyk-Kul District Issyk-Kul District (, ''Isıq-Köl rayonu'', ىسىق-كۅل رايونۇ; , ''Issyk-kul'skij raion'') is a Districts of Kyrgyzstan, district of Issyk-Kul Region in north-eastern Kyrgyzstan. The seat lies at Cholpon-Ata. Its area is , and its resi ...

. Its population was 9,362 in 2021. Located on highway A363 on the north shore of Lake

Issyk Kul Issyk-Kul () or Ysyk-Köl (, ; ) is an endorheic saline lake in the western Tianshan Mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan, just south of a dividing range separating Kyrgyzstan from Kazakhstan. It is the eighth-deepest lake in the world, the eleve ...

, the next town to the west is Semyonovka, and to the east,

Tüp Tüp () or Tyup () is a large village in the Issyk-Kul Region of Kyrgyzstan, and the center of the Tüp District. It was established as village Preobrazhenskoye in 1870. Its population was 12,355 in 2021. Tüp is a road junction town at the nort ...

. It was founded in 1871 as Sazonovka settlement and there is still a significant Russian population. In 1942, the village was renamed after one of the

Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen The Panfilov Division's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen (), commonly referred to simply as Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen, Panfilov's Men (, ''Panfilovtsy''), or just the Twenty-Eight, is a group of soldiers from the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division ...

- Nikolay Yakovlevich Anan'yev, who was born in Sazonovka in 1912. There are a church and a mosque in the village.

History

St. Matthew's burial site is reputedly on the shore of Issyk Kul (on ''Svetly Mys'', "Bright Cape") near Anan'yevo.Svetly Mys
on orexca.com ''Saint Matthew Legend:'' Note: this needs better sources, and I cannot find most of the places on a map and the geography is contradictory. According to Laurence Mitchell, 'Kyrgyzstan', Bradt Travel Guides, 2008, there is a legend that Saint Matthew, on a journey to India, died and was buried on the shores of Issyk Kul. In the 4th or 5th century (sic) Armenian monks founded a monastery there (up to eight monasteries were founded later). They are located at Svetly Mys ('bright cape'), 48 km from

Karakol Karakol (; , ), formerly Przhevalsk ( rus, Пржевальск, p=pr̩ʐɨˈvalʲsk), is the fourth-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, near the eastern tip of Lake Issyk-Kul, about from the Kyrgyzstan–China border and from the capital Bishkek. I ...

, south of the village of Ak-Bulung (formerly Belovodsk) on the Zayachy peninsula at the northeast corner of Issyk Kul. A Russian Orthodox monastery was founded here in 1888. It was sacked by rebels in 1916 and only two monks survived. One, Irakly, fled to Ananyevo. After the revolution, villagers built him a secret cell where he died in 1937. He was canonized in 2000. In September 2006, Vladimir Ploskikh (see

) reported the discovery of a medieval settlement with catacombs on the Zayachy peninsula.

Demographics

References

Populated places in Issyk-Kul Region {{IssykKul-geo-stub