Hero of the Kyrgyz Republic Jusup Mamai
Jusup Mamai, the Great Narrator of the Epic "Manas" He was born on May 4, 1918, in the village of Merkech, Ak-Chiy District, Kyzyl-Suu Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. At the age of seven, he learned to read and write. He recounted the epic "Manas" up to the eighth generation. According to him, the epic consists of 500,000 lines.