Bektenov Ziyash (1911-1994) - a representative of a cohort of Kyrgyz scholars who created the first generation of textbooks.Kyrgyz. Born in the village of Ken-Suu in the Tyup district of the Issyk-Kul region. Graduated from the Kyrgyz Institute of Education (1930).
Worked as the head of the district education department in the city of Sulyukta, in 1931-1932 in Moscow, as the deputy responsible secretary of the Kyrgyz section of the Central Publishing House of the Peoples of the USSR, a lecturer at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, and at the Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute. From 1940 to 1942, he was the deputy director of the Przhevalsky Teacher Training Institute, senior editor of Kirgospizdat, and from 1942 to 1946, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army (Mashhad, Iran). From 1946 to 1949, he was a research associate and head of the department at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences.
In 1950, he was unjustly repressed and sentenced to 10 years; he was rehabilitated and released in 1955. In 1933, in collaboration with T. Baidzhiev, he published a textbook of the Kyrgyz language for grades 3-4, in 1946 - the textbook "Native Literature" for grade 4 in collaboration with U. Abdukairov and K. Karasaev, and in 1948-1949, in collaboration with T. Baidzhiev - a textbook on Kyrgyz literature (folklore) for 8th-grade students of secondary schools. From 1961 to 1990, he worked as a senior lecturer, associate professor, and Honorary Professor at KSU.
From 1959 to 1970, he personally and in collaboration published textbooks "Kyrgyz Language" for grades 3-4 of Russian schools (1959); "Native Literature" for grade 5 (1963); "Native Literature" for grade 4 (1969).
"Memories of My Contemporaries: Literary Reflections." Bishkek, "Adabiyat," 1992.
