Kazakhstan History

Zhumabay Shayakhmetov

Zhumabay Shayakhmetovich Shayakhmetov, (Russian: Жумабай Шаяхметов), (August 30, 1902–1966) was a Kazakh Soviet Communist political figure. From 1946 through 1954, he was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR.

He was born to a poor peasant family in a small village in what is now the Borisov Raion of the Omsk Oblast. In 1915, he went to the two-year Kazakh-Russian school in what is now the Poltava Raion, graduating in 1917. He attended the Narimanov Institute in Moscow, but did not complete his first year. In 1919, he got a job as a school teacher in a rural school, but the school closed due to the civil war and he returned to his home.

From 1919 to 1926, Shayakhmetov was the secretary of the Turkoman Rural District executive committee of the GPU. By 1923, he was already a first-rate agent, solving crimes in the Cherlaksky District, Omsk Oblast. From 1926 to 1928, Shayakhmetov taught office management (official documentation) as the political instructor in a rural organization called "Koschi" in the Petropavl Okrug. From 1928 to 1938, he worked for the NKVD, first as Deputy Department Chief for the North Kazakhstan Oblast, then as the Deputy Department Chief for the Alma Ata Oblast.

From 1938 to 1946, he worked his way up from Third Secretary to First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR, a post he retained until 1954. He was replaced in the post-Stalin reorganization. For about a year, well into 1955, he was the First Secretary of the South Kazakhstan provincial committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.

 History and language of Kazakhstan

Tolkyn Zabirova

Tolkyn Zabirova (Cyrillic: Толкын Забирова, born 17 October 1970) is a singer from Ayaguz, Kazakhstan. Most of her songs are in Kazakh or Russian, though several exist in other languages.

 Kazakh Music and songs

Toktar Aubakirov

Toktar Ongarbayuly Aubakirov (Kazakh: Тоқтар Оңғарбайұлы Әубәкіров, born on July 27, 1946, in Karaganda, Kazakhstan) is a retired Kazakhstani Air Force officer and a former cosmonaut (Kazakh: gharyshker).

Early life

Toktar Aubakirov was born on July 27, 1946 in Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, which is now Kazakhstan. He graduated from the Air Force Institute and was a parachutist and test pilot with the rank of Major General in the Kazakh Air Force before he was selected as a cosmonaut.

Spaceflight experience

On October 2, 1991 he launched with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Volkov as flight commander, and the Austrian research cosmonaut Franz Viehböck in Soyuz TM-13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport, and spent over eight days in space. He also the first Soviet citizen to go into space without being fully certified as a cosmonaut, as his flight was hurried forward — several commercial international cosmonauts were already booked, but the flight of a Kazakh cosmonaut was part of the Baikonur rental agreement between Kazakhstan and Russia.

Career

Since 1993, he has been the general director of the National Aerospace Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan. He was a member of Kazakhstan parliament. Now he is a pensioner and consultant.

Family

Toktar Aubakirov is married to Tatyana M. Malysheva. They have two children. Timur was born in 1977. Mikhail was born in 1982.

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    * Hero of Soviet Union (1988)
    * Order of Lenin (1988)
    * Deserved test pilot of the USSR (1990)
    * Order Sign of Honor (1987)
    * 2 Orders "Golden Cross" of the Austrian Republic - in the years 1988 and 1993.
    * Order of the October Revolution (1991)
    * Order of Otan (1995)
    * The Title "Khalyk Kakharmany".

Kazakh 

Timur Bekmambetov

Timur Bekmambetov (Kazak: Тимур Бекмамбетов, Russian: Тимур Бекмамбетов.) (born 25 June 1961 in Guryev, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (present Atyrau, Kazakhstan)) is a Russian-Kazakh film and advertisement director living in Russia. He was one of the authors of the popular World History advertisement series for Bank Imperial between 1992 and 1997.

He was the director of the 2004 film Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor), a popular Russian fantasy film based on the book by Sergey Lukyanenko, and its sequel, Day Watch (2006). He also directed the Roger Corman-produced remake of the 1974 film The Arena in 2001, also titled The Arena starring Karen McDougal and Lisa Dergan. He shows a common soldier's view in the film Escape from Afghanistan (1994) that Corman released with English dubbing on DVD in 2002.

He is currently in pre-production on the film Wanted which stars James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, and Morgan Freeman. The film, which is expected to be Bekmambetov's breakout film in Hollywood, is based upon a comic series of the same name written by Mark Millar.

He is going to begin filming the third film in the Night Watch series.

Kazakh

Talgat Musabayev

Talgat Amangeldyuly Musabayev (Kazakh: Талғат Аманкелдіұлы Мұсабаев; born 7 January 1951, Kargaly, Kazakhstan), is a Kazakh test pilot and former cosmonaut (Kazakh: gharyshker) who flew on the following space missions:

    * Soyuz TM-19 Flight Engineer - 4 November 1994 - 125d 22h 53m
    * Soyuz TM-27 Commander - 25 August 1998 - 207d 12h 49m
    * Soyuz TM-32/Soyuz TM-31 Commander - 6 May 2001 - 7d 22h 04m

As of 2007, he was among the top 25 astronauts by time in space.

2005 - General Director of "Bayterek" Corp. (Kazakhstani-Russian Joint Venture).

2007, February - Director of Aerospace Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan

Chokan Valikhanov

Chokan Valikhanov (Kazakh: Шоқан Уәлиханов, Russian: Чокан Чингисович Валиханов, 1835-1865) was the first Kazakh scholar, ethnographer and historian. He is regarded as the father of Kazakh historiography and ethnography. The Kazakh Academy of Sciences is named after Chokan Valikhanov.

A male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, Valikhanov was born at the house of his grandfather, Wali Khan, whose own grandfather was Ablai Khan, the great khan of Orta Zhuz. He received early education in his village Kushmurune at a private Kazakh maktab, or grade school.

Valikhanov was one of the first Kazakhs who received education in Russian language and worked for Imperial Russia. He lived in St.Petersburg for two years and joined the staff of the Russian Geographical Society, serving as officer of the Russian army for the remaining days of his life.

Valihkanov published books and articles devoted to the history and culture of Central Asia; among them researches "Kirghiz (Kazakhs)," "Traces of shamanism in Kirghiz (Kazakhs)", "About Kirghiz nomads' camp" and others contained ethnographic data that have been used to date. that He also compiled Kazakh epic poem "Kozy-Korpesh and "Bayan-Sulu" as well as Kyrgyz epic "Manas."

Valikhanov report of his trip to Kashgaria in 1858-59 remains a valuable account on the situation in Xinjiang in the aftermath of Wali Khan's invasion of the region and on the eve of the Muslim Rebellion of the 1860s.

Kazakhtan Religion

Serik Konakbayev

Serik Konakbaev (born October 25, 1959) is a retired boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the silver medal in the light welterweight division (– 63.5 kg), after being defeated in the final by Patrizio Oliva of Italy. Two years later he once again captured the silver medal, this time at the World Championships in Munich, West Germany.

Olympic Results

    * Defeated Simion Cutov (Romania) 5-0
    * Defeated Imre Bacskai (Hungary) RET 2
    * Defeated José Angel Molina (Puerto Rico) Walk-over
    * Defeated José Aguilar (Cuba) 4-1
    * Lost to Patrizio Oliva (Italy) 1-4

Kazakhstan Sports

Sarsen Amanzholov

Sarsen Amanzholovich Amanzholov (Kazakh: Сәрсен Аманжолович Аманжолов; Russian: Сарсен Аманжолович Аманжолов) is a famous Turkologist, and one of the pioneers of Kazakh linguistics. He cultivated the foundations of Kazakh grammar for all levels of education, and helped create the current Cyrillic Kazakh alphabet. He also helped to create Russian-Kazakh military and agricultural dictionaries.

Amanzholov was born on December 27, 1903 in the village (aul) of Eginsu in East Kazakhstan Province. In 1916 he graduated from the Kanton-Karagae Russian-Kazakh school and enrolled in a real school in Ust-Kamenogorsk, however was forced to drop out due to financial difficulties. He later enrolled in a three-month course of study in Semipalatinsk, after which he returned to his home village to work as a teacher.

In 1924 he was offered a job as a high-ranking secretary in the executive committee of East Kazakhstan province. In 1926 he moved to Tashkent to work at the Central Asian State University in the department of Kazakh language and literature.

In the fall of 1931 Amanzholov began to teach at the Abay Kazakh Pedagogical Institute. The next year he became an associate professor. He would continue to work at this institution until his death nearly 30 years later.

In the early 1930s he began a program for creating Kazakh textbooks. In 1932 Amanzholov published the grade school textbook Kazakh Grammar (Грамматика казахского языка). That year he also edited a Kazakh language textbook for younger children. From 1934-1940 he wrote a grammar textbook for middle school students.

On November 10, 1940, at the 5th session of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR, Amanzholov was presented with the project of creating a new Cyrillic alphabet for the Kazakh language. This alphabet would replace the Uniform Turkic Alphabet which was currently being used throughout the USSR.

From February 1942 to June 1946 Amanzholov was placed on active war service in the Red Army. During that time he directed propaganda activities among soldiers of non-Russian origin, and published Notebook of a Red Army Propagandist (Блокнот агитатора Красной Армии) as well as leaflets about Heroes of the Soviet Union.

In 1948 he defended his dissertation on the ethnogenesis of the Kazakhs in Moscow.

He died on January 28, 1958.

East Kazakhstan Sate University is named in his honor.

Kazakhstan people

Rakhimzhan Qoshqarbaev

Raqymzhan Qoshqarbayev (Kazakh: Рақымжан Қошқарбаев; Russian:Рахимжан Кошкарбаев, born 1924) is a Kazakh soldier. He and Georgij Bulatov were the first Red Army personnel to raise the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag building in Berlin, on April 30, 1945, during World War II.

Qoshqarbayev was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He commenced active duty in early 1945. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant, and commanded the reconnaissance platoon of the 1st Rifle Battalion, 674th Regiment. His unit was involved in heavy fighting, including the Battle of Berlin.

After the war Qoshqarbaev was the manager of the Alma-Ata Hotel. Unlike another Kazakh hero of the war, Bauyrzhan Momysh-uly, Qoshqarbaev was never awarded the Gold Star. This was due to the supposedly bourgeois background of Qoshqarbayev's father, which was a disadvantage in the Soviet Union.

Kazakhstan and World War II

Raiymbek Batyr

Famous Kazakh worrier, who actively resisted Dzhungar invasion of Kazakh territories and played major role in liberating Kazakhs from Dzhungar oppression.

Kazakhstan History