Original: Founded in 1825 as the Kyrgyz-Khokand fortress of "Bishkek", then, in 1862, named as the Russian fortress Pishpek () 282.
Simplified: Originally founded in 1878 as the Russian fortress of Pishpek (), between 1926 and 1991 it was known as Frunze (), after the Bolshevik military leader Mikhail Frunze.