Poet, playwright Kadyrbai Mambetakunov
Poet and playwright K. Mambetakunov was born on June 15, 1939, in the village of Alysh, Tian-Shan region of Naryn Province, in a peasant family. In 1956, he graduated from Toktogul Satylganov Secondary School in Naryn, and in 1961, he graduated from the philological faculty of KGU. He began his labor biography as a schoolboy in 1955, working as a broadcaster for Naryn regional broadcasting. In 1961, he was assigned as a teacher at Toktogul Satylganov Secondary School in Naryn. In 1965, he was