Kairpov Baltash

Kaipov Baltash

Film director. Honored Worker of Culture of the Kyrgyz SSR (1974). Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1973. Born on March 10, 1936, in the village of Kok-Tondy of the "Achi" forestry in the Lenin district of the Osh region, in a peasant family. After graduating from a boarding school in Jalal-Abad in 1953, he enrolled in the acting faculty of GITIS in Moscow. In 1957, he graduated with honors from the institute and was included in the troupe of the Kyrgyz State Drama Theater. From October 1958, he transitioned to television for directing work. From 1961 to 1967, he was the chief director of the television studio, and then for five years, he served as the director of the film group.

He directed the feature film "Alymkan" (1965), the documentary television film "Glow in the Mountains" (1967), "Field - My Joy" (1968), "Komuz" (1968), musical film performances "Manas," "Toktogul" (both in 1968), and a television program from the series "Atlas of the USSR" — "I am Kyrgyzstan" (1968). B. Kaipov is credited with 60 television productions ("Unsent Letters of Kutuy," "The Mystery of the Girl" based on the story by K. Zhantoshev, "The Old Man in a Worn Overcoat" by K. Paustovsky, and others). Since 1972, he has been the chief director and production director of the television studio again.

B. Kaipov is one of the pioneers of Kyrgyz television directing, an experienced and recognized master. His film "Alymkan" was awarded a diploma at the I All-Union Festival of Television Films in Kyiv in 1966. In 1971, B. Kaipov was awarded the highest category of television director by the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Television and Radio Broadcasting.

Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR since 1967.