This article focuses on the formation and development of customary law in Kyrgyz society. The degree of customs, traditions, and legal systems created existing outside, and had significance on their basis, significantly higher than those of societies functioning within the framework of public education. The set of measures formed over time, which were focused on regulation of all aspects in the traditional Kyrgyz community life, represented by a large number of mutually independent tribes and clans, as a highly effective system capable of maintaining normal conditions of existence.

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The article describing issues in consolidating women political and civil rights equality in Kyrgyzstan during the period of socialism. For almost seventy years of the Soviet Union period, all the constitutions in force in Kyrgyzstan invariably proclaimed the principle of men and women equality, and its implementation with concretization in relation to certain spheres, areas in the political, economic, cultural and social life was widely reflected by Soviet legislation. In providing the women equality in Soviet Kyrgyzstan, similarly as in other republics of the Soviet Union, the central place was occupied by solving the women emancipation problem, ensuring her legal and de facto equality.

This article examines constitutional development stages in Kyrgyzstan including Constitution and the constitutional system that appeared during the Soviet period. The Constitution of Kyrgyzstan went through the same stages in its development as the Kyrgyz government as a whole, both in the Soviet and in the sovereign, independent period in the history of Kyrgyzstan. The study of archival documents let us restore historical truth and the list of names of all members in the commissions for drafting the Constitutions in both the Soviet period and in sovereign independent Kyrgyzstan.