Aisha Sultanaly kyzy was born on March 8, 1912, in the village of Taldy-Suu in the present-day Tyup district of the Issyk-Kul region, in a large family of a teacher. The actress does not have an extensive filmography, but she is known for being the first Kyrgyz girl to attend school. The first Kyrgyz woman to star in a leading role in the film "Covered Wagon" ("Uzbekgoskino") in 1927, the feature film "Covered Wagon," in which actress Aisha Tyumenbaeva made her debut, became a cornerstone of Kyrgyz cinema. At that time, no one thought that the creative energy of the budding filmmakers would attract the attention of the global community and that the term "Kyrgyz cinema miracle" would enter common usage.
However, Aisha did not pursue an acting career and preferred family life. In 1930, she married philologist and Turkologist Kusein Karasaev. She lived with him for 70 years and was the editor of all his scientific works.
The first Kyrgyz woman to graduate from a workers' faculty in Leningrad in 1932, she was also the first Kyrgyz woman to master the profession of stenographer-typist in both Kyrgyz and Russian languages. She is the author of the first stenography textbook in the Turkic-speaking world. She developed a methodology for studying and teaching Kyrgyz stenography and taught this subject to students at the Kyrgyz State University. From 1949 to 1979, she was a lecturer in stenography at the Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute.
She passed away on September 10, 2014, at the age of 102.
Women of Kyrgyzstan
