Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Jumatai Sharshiev

Prose writer J. Sharshiev was born on July 17, 1942, in the village of Ak-Beshim, Chui region, Kyrgyz SSR, in a peasant family. In 1959, he graduated from Ak-Beshim Secondary School, and in 1964— from the philological faculty of KGU. In 1964, he was assigned as a teacher to a secondary school in the village of Novorossiysk, Kemin district. He worked for some time in Kegetin and Alchalin secondary schools in the Chui region. From 1964 to 1967, J. Sharshiev served in the ranks of the Soviet Army.

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

The Poet Salibay Shatmanov

Poet S. Shatmanov was born in the village of Kyzyl-Dzhar in the Jangi-Dzhoy district of the Osh region into a peasant family. In 1950, he graduated from high school in the city of Tash-Kumyr, in 1953 — from the Jalal-Abad Teacher's Institute, and in 1966 — from the philological faculty of KGU. From 1953 to 1960, he worked as a deputy director and director of the Jangi-Dzhoy eight-year school, from 1966 to 1983 — as a literary employee and head of the department at the editorial office of

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Translator, Literary Scholar Vyacheslav Shapovalov

Poet, translator, literary scholar V. Shapovalov was born on October 28, 1947, in Frunze in a family of civil servants. In 1966, he graduated from Secondary School No. 37 in Frunze, and in 1971— from the Philological Faculty of K. State University. Since 1975, he has been a research intern, and from 1976 to 1979— a postgraduate student at the Department of Theory and History of Russian Literature at K. State University named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. He is a Candidate of

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Tolen Shamsiyev

Poet T. Shamshiev was born on October 14, 1910, in the village of Kurshab, Uzgen District, Osh Region, into a poor family. From 1927, he was raised in the Uzgen boarding school, graduated from the Jalal-Abad Pedagogical School in 1932, and in 1957—completed the correspondence department of the Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute in Frunze. From 1936 to 1938, he studied at the editor-translators' courses at the Central Committee of the VKP(b) in Moscow. In 1932, he was the head of the

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet-Writer Isak Shaibekov

Poet-writer I. Shaibekov was born in 1880—April 22, 1957, in the village of Chon-Kemin (now Kemin District of the Kyrgyz SSR) into a poor peasant family. Before the revolution, he studied literacy with a mullah in the city of Tokmak. Having lost his parents at an early age, he worked as a laborer for wealthy landowners from the age of 14. During the uprising of 1916, he, along with refugees, ended up in Turpan, China. In 1917, he returned to his homeland. During the years of the revolution and

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Improvisational Poet Toktonaly Shabdanbaev

The improvisational poet T. Shabdanbaev was born on August 15, 1896 — February 18, 1978, in the village of Jaiylma (now the Kant district of the Kyrgyz SSR) into a peasant family. Until 1917, he worked as a laborer for the wealthy. From 1918 to 1921, he voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army and fought against Kolchak, participated in the defeat of the Bukhara Emirate, and fought against the Basmachis in the Fergana Valley and southern Kyrgyzstan. After being demobilized from the Red

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Almatay Choybekova (Almash)

Poet A. Choybekova was born on August 8, 1947, in the village of Ketmen-Tyube, Toktogul district, Osh region, in a teacher's family. In 1960, she graduated from a seven-year school in her native village, in 1973—Jalal-Abad Pedagogical College, and in 1980—(part-time) the journalism department of the Philological Faculty of KGU named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. She began her work biography in 1965 as a worker at the shoe company "Cholpon" in Frunze. From 1968, she

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Esengul Chopieva (E. Urmatvek)

Poet E. Chopieff was born on June 27, 1937, in the village of Kyzyl-Bairak, Kemin district, Kyrgyz SSR, in a peasant family. In 1956, he graduated from the K. Marx Secondary School in the Kemin district, and in 1961— from the philological faculty of KSU. From 1961 to 1967, he worked as a teacher in secondary schools in the Alay, Alamudun, and Kemin districts of the republic. Since 1967, he has been working as a literary employee, head of the department, and since 1975— as the responsible

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Joormat Chorobaev

Poet J. Chorobaev was born in the village of Chon-Aryk in the Ak-Tal district of the Naryn region in a family of civil servants. In 1963, he graduated from the Toktogul Satylganov Secondary School in Naryn, and in 1968, he graduated from the philological faculty of KGU. He began his career in 1968 as a correspondent for the newspaper "Kyrgyzstan Madeniyaty," and from 1970 until the end of his life, he worked at the Naryn regional committee for television and radio broadcasting.

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet-Writer Abdykalyk Chorobaev

Poet-writer A. Chorobaev was born on 1. 1897—11. 12. 1979 in the village of Kurtka (now Ak-Talinsky district of Naryn region) in a peasant-poor family. Until the age of 14, he studied Arabic writing with local mullahs, then at the Andijan madrasah. In 1920, he was sent to a six-month course for training primary school teachers in Tashkent. From 1914 to 1916, he worked as a shepherd for local landowners in Toguz-Toro with his father. From 1917, he engaged in agricultural work, and from 1921, he

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Critic, Literary Scholar Georgy Khlypenko

Critic, literary scholar G. Khlypenko was born in the village of Sadovoye in the Moscow district of the Kyrgyz SSR in a family of civil servants. In 1955, he graduated from high school in his native village, in 1960—he graduated from the philological faculty of KGU, and in 1966—he completed postgraduate studies at KGU. He earned a Candidate of Philological Sciences degree (1969). From 1960 to 1968, he worked as a senior editor and head of the editorial and publishing department at the

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Yakub Khavazov (Khuëshir)

Prose writer Y. Khavazov was born on February 15, 1922, in the city of Pishpek in a peasant family of the poor. In 1936, he graduated from the primary Dungan school in the village of Milyanfan in the Kant district of the Kyrgyz SSR, and from 1936 he studied at the preparatory department of the Kyrgyz Pedagogical Technical School. From 1939 to 1941, he attended the agricultural technical school named after S. M. Kirov in Frunze, from 1948 to 1950 he studied at the RYUSH of the Kyrgyz SSR, and

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Sergey Fiksin

Poet S. A. Fixin was born on August 2, 1907—February 13, 1978, in the city of Smolensk in the family of a civil servant. In 1918, he graduated from Smolensk City Primary School No. 10, in 1926—high school, and in 1928—workers' faculty. He began his working biography in 1918 as a laborer, loader, and wheelbarrow operator at a brick factory. From 1927 to 1941, he worked in the editorial offices of newspapers in the Bryansk and Smolensk regions. During the Great Patriotic War, he served as a

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Improvisational Poet Alymkul Usenbaev

Akin-improviser A. Usenbaev was born in 1894 and died on August 2, 1963, in the village of Kara-archa (now Kirovsky District of the Talas Region) in a family of poor nomads. At the age of 12, after becoming an orphan, he worked as a laborer for wealthy landowners and tended their sheep until he was twenty. In 1931, he joined the collective farm "Aral" in the Pokrovsky District and actively participated in the construction of the collective farm. In 1936, he was accepted as a solo

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

The title translates to "Poet Soviet Urmambetov."

Poet S. Urmambetov was born on March 12, 1934, in the village of Toru-Aigyr, Issyk-Kul District, Issyk-Kul Region, in a peasant family. In 1952, he graduated from the L. N. Tolstoy Secondary School in the town of Rybachye, and in 1957, he graduated from the philological faculty of KGU. He began his career in 1957 as an editor at Kirgosizdat, and from 1963 he served as the director of the Republican House of Actors. From 1964, he worked as a literary consultant for the Writers' Union of

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Critic, Literary Scholar, Prose Writer Sharshenbek Umetaliev

Critic, literary scholar, prose writer Sh. Umetaliev was born on February 10, 1925, in the village of Tyuz, Sokuluk District, Kyrgyz SSR, in a peasant family. In 1942, he graduated from A. M. Gorky Secondary School, in 1951— Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute, and in 1955—postgraduate studies at the Institute of Literature and Language of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow. Candidate of Philological Sciences (1955). In 1945, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. Until 1947, he

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

The Poet Temirkul Umetaliev

Poet T. Umetaliev was born in the village of Too-Djar in the Jangi-Jol district of the Osh region into a poor family. From 1924, he was raised in the Ak-Suu boarding school, and in 1929 he graduated from the Jalal-Abad Pedagogical College. In 1936-1937, he studied at the courses of the Communist Institute of Journalism named after "Pravda" in Moscow. In 1929, T. Umetaliev was appointed as a primary school teacher in the village of Shankol in the Nookat district. From 1930, he worked

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Critic, Translator, Publicist Kymbatbek Ukayev

Critic, translator, publicist K. Ukayev was born in the village of Dzhan-Alysh in the Kemin district of the Kirghiz SSR in a peasant-poor family. In 1948, he graduated from high school in his native village, and in 1952— from the philological faculty of KSU, and from 1952 to 1954, he studied in graduate school. He began his labor biography in 1954 as the head of the criticism department at the editorial office of the magazine "Ala-Too," and in 1983 he was appointed editor-in-chief of

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Ergeshbay Uzakbaev

Poet E. Uzakbaev was born on January 15, 1926, in the village of Kün Chyghys (now Bokonbaево) in the Ton district of the Issyk-Kul region, into a poor family. In 1942, he graduated from a seven-year school in his native village, and in 1948, he graduated from the Faculty of Language and Literature of the Frunze Teacher Training Institute. He began his working biography in 1941 as a primary school teacher in his native school, where he later served as the deputy director. From 1951 to 1959, he

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer, Poet Nikolai Udalov

Prose writer, poet N. Udalov was born on November 20, 1910—August 8, 1986, in the village of Ivakino, Kologrivsky District, Kostroma Region, in a peasant family of the poor. Since 1917, he lived in Kyrgyzstan. In 1927, he graduated from a seven-year school in Frunze, studied from 1929 to 1931 in courses for railway station attendants in Ashgabat, and from 1933 to 1934 attended the workers' faculty of the Novosibirsk Institute of Transport Engineers. From 1959 to 1961, he was a student at

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer, Essayist, Translator Aitkulu Ubukeev (Kubatbek)

Prose writer, essayist, translator A. Ubuikeev was born in the village of Kerege-Tash in the present-day Ak-Suu district of the Issyk-Kul region in a poor family. In 1921, he graduated from a six-month teacher training course, and in 1937 — from higher construction courses in Moscow. From the age of 12, he worked as a laborer for wealthy farmers. From 1921 to 1925, he worked as a teacher at the Kerege-Tash primary school. In 1926, he was elected secretary of the Komsomol committee of the

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Linguist Kasym Tynystanov

Poet and linguist K. Tynystanov was born on September 9, 1901—November 6, 1938, in the village of Chyrpykty in the present-day Issyk-Kul district of Issyk-Kul region, in a peasant family. From 1909 to 1912, he studied literacy with a village mullah, from 1913 to 1914—at an Uzbek primary school in the village of Sazanovka, and from 1914 to 1916—at a Russian-native school in the city of Karakol. In 1924, he graduated from the Kyrgyz-Kazakh Institute of Education in Tashkent. In 1923-1924, while

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

The Poet Jumakan Tynymseitov

The poet J. Tynymseitova was born on 11. 1929—29. 07. 1975 in the village of On-Archa in the current Tian-Shan district of the Naryn region, in a poor family. In 1943, she graduated from a seven-year school in her native village, and from 1943 to 1945, she studied at the Naryn Pedagogical College. In 1968, she graduated from the correspondence department of the philological faculty of KSU. Since 1945, she worked as a librarian for the On-Archa and Kumbel rural councils, from 1950 to 1952 and

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Improvising Poet Toktosun Tynybekov

Improvisational poet T. Tynybekov was born in the village of Tегене in the current Джакги-Джоль district of the Osh region in a peasant family. In 1942, he graduated from seven grades in his native village and then attended two-month vocational training courses in Karaganda. He began his labor biography as a miner in the mines of Karaganda. From 1946, he worked as a teacher in the primary school of the village of Kyzyl-Beyit and as the director of the House of Culture in the Jangi-Jol

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Playwright Dzhusup Turusbekov

Poet and playwright Dzh. Turusbekov was born in the village of Kok-Sai in the current Ton district of the Issyk-Kul region into the family of a poor peasant. During the events of 1916, he fled to China with refugees. He returned to his homeland after the October Revolution. In 1921, he was accepted into the Karakol orphanage, from where he was transferred to a boarding school, and then he studied at the Tyup veterinary technical school. In 1929, on a Komsomol ticket, he went to study in Tver

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, playwright, translator Ernс Tursunov

Poet, playwright, translator E. Tursunov was born on August 24, 1935, in Frunze in a family of civil servants. In 1952, he graduated from Kyrgyz Secondary School No. 5 named after A. S. Pushkin in Frunze, and in 1958, he graduated from the philological faculty of KGU. From 1952 to 1953, he studied at Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov in Moscow. He began his career in 1958 as the deputy head of the arts department of the Ministry of Culture of the Kyrgyz SSR. From 1960, he

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Improvisational Poet Esteves Tursunaliev

The improvisational poet E. Tursunaliev was born on May 5, 1931, in the village of Kara-Archa, now part of the Manas district of the Talas region, in a family of poor peasants. His father, Tursunaly, was a good komuz player, and his mother, Arpayán, was a storyteller and a traditional singer. Since 1939, he studied at the Aral Secondary School. From the 5th grade, he participated in artistic amateur performances and attended an olympiad in Frunze. In 1946, the folk akyn-improviser Alymkul

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Mukambetkalyy Tursunaliev (M. Buranaev)

Poet M. Tursunaliev was born on January 11, 1926, in the village of Alchaluu, Chui region of the Kirghiz SSR, in a family of a livestock breeder. In 1944, he graduated from high school in his native village, and in 1952, he studied at the philological faculty of KRU. From 1944 to 1950, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. From 1950 to 1952, he worked as the secretary of the board in his native collective farm. From 1954 to 1957, he worked as the head of a department and responsible

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

The Poet Suerkul Turgunbaev (S. Zhan)

Poet S. Turgunbaev was born in the village of Besh-Kadam in the Bazar-Kurgan district of the Osh region into a peasant family. In 1959, he graduated from high school in the village of Bazar-Kurgan, and in 1964— from the philological faculty of KGU. He began his labor biography in 1964 as a teacher of his native language and literature in a high school in the Alaï district. From 1966, he worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Translator Myrzayan Tolomushev (Musa Makeev)

Translator M. Tolomushev was born on November 20, 1942, in the village of Baskiya in the Tian Shan region of Naryn Province, in a peasant family. In 1961, he graduated from the Otkursk Secondary School, and in 1970— from the philological faculty of K. GU. He began his career in 1961 as a laboratory assistant at the Tian Shan Experimental Station. From 1963 to 1966, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. From 1970 to 1976, he worked as an editor, and from 1977 to 1986— as a senior editor at

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Abdrasul Toktomushev

Poet A. Toktomushev was born on July 15, 1912, in the village of Tort-Kul, Kemin District, Kyrgyz SSR, in the family of a laborer. Having lost his parents early, he was raised in the Tokmak orphanage from 1922, and from 1926 he continued his education at a school in the city of Pishpek. From 1928 to 1931, he studied at the Central Asian Polytechnic Institute of Water Management in Tashkent, and in 1952 he graduated from a pedagogical college in Frunze by correspondence. From 1932 until the

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Translator, Critic Aman Toktogulov

Poet, translator, critic A. Toktogulov was born on June 26, 1945, in the village of Kopure-Bazar, Talas district of the Talas region, in a peasant family. In 1962, he graduated from high school, and in 1967, he graduated from the philological faculty of KSU. He began his labor biography in 1967 as a literary employee at the editorial office of the newspaper "Kyrgyzstan Madeniyaty." From 1973 to 1974, he served as the deputy editor-in-chief of this newspaper, and from 1972 to 1973, he

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet-Writer Shamey Toktobaev

The akyn-writer Sh. Toktobaev was born in 1880 and died on August 3, 1981, in the village of Kün-Chygysh (now the village of Bokonbaev in the Ton district of the Issyk-Kul region) into a poor family. He learned to read and write on his own. In 1915, he studied for six months at a new method school. From 1916 to 1920, he worked as a laborer for local landlords and kulaks. From 1920 to 1931, he worked as a teacher in a primary school. In 1929, after joining the CPSU, he led a primary party cell,

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

The Poet Akbar Toktakunov

Poet A. Toktakunov was born in the village of Chym-Korgon in the Kemin district of the Kyrgyz SSR into a family of poor peasants. In 1945, he graduated from Kyrgyz Secondary School No. 5 named after A. S. Pushkin in Frunze. From 1961 to 1963, he studied at the Higher Literary School under the Union of Soviet Writers in Moscow. He began his work biography in 1945 as the secretary of the board in his native collective farm. From 1947, he was a correspondent for the newspaper "Leninchil

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Svetlana Tokombaeva (Suslova)

Poet S. Tokombaeva was born on March 13, 1949, in Chita in a family of a doctor. Since 1952, she has lived in Frunze. In 1966, she graduated from Secondary School No. 51 in Frunze, and in 1971, she graduated from the philological faculty of KGU. In 1965, while still a schoolgirl, she worked as a announcer for the Kant District Radio, and during these years she collaborated with the newspapers "Banner of Victory" and "Kyrgyzstan Komsomol". Her first poems appeared in the

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Prose Writer Ulan Tokombaev (Ulan-Sher)

Poet and prose writer U. Tokombaev was born on February 10, 1941, in the village of Kureneekeevo, Kemin District, Kyrgyz SSR, in a family of a writer. In 1958, he graduated from Secondary School No. 6 in Frunze, and in 1967, he graduated from the scriptwriting faculty of VGIK in Moscow. From 1960 to 1962, he studied at the Frunze Institute of Physical Culture. He began his work biography in 1958 as a center worker at the M. V. Frunze Agricultural Machinery Plant, and in 1959 he moved to a

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Prose Writer, Playwright Aaly Tokombaev (Balky)

Poet, prose writer, playwright A. Tokombaev was born in the village of Kainy in the present-day Kemin district of the Kyrgyz SSR to a poor family. During the events of 1916, he ended up in China with refugees; upon returning in 1917, he lost his parents on the way and wandered as a homeless child until 1922. In 1922, he was accepted into a Soviet party school (boarding school) in Tashkent. From 1923 to 1927, he studied at the V. I. Lenin Central Asian University. In 1927, he worked for a time

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, playwright Moldogazy Tokobaev

Poet and playwright M. Tokobaev was born in 1905 and passed away on May 21, 1974, in the village of Toru-Aygyr, Issyk-Kul district, Issyk-Kul region, in a peasant family of poor farmers. Having lost his parents at an early age, he was raised by relatives and from 1921, he lived in the Karakol orphanage. In 1926, he graduated from the Tyup Agricultural Technical School. From 1929 to 1931, he studied at the Communist University in Moscow. From 1926 to 1929, he worked as the secretary of the

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Dramatist, Literary Scholar, Poet, Translator Myrzabek Toybaev

Dramatist, literary scholar, poet, translator M. Toybaev was born on January 25, 1935, in the village of Taldy-Bulak, Chui region of the Kyrgyz SSR, in a peasant family. In 1952, he graduated from Alchalin Secondary School, and in 1958, he graduated from the philological faculty of KGU. From 1966 to 1970, he studied in graduate school at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR. He earned a Candidate of Philological Sciences degree in 1970.

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

The poet-writer Togolok Moldo (Bayymbet Abdrakhmanov)

Akin-writer Togolok Moldo was born on June 17, 1860—January 4, 1942, in the area of Kurtka (now Ak-Talinsky district of Naryn region) in a peasant family. The father of the future akyn, Abdrakhman, was a connoisseur of Kyrgyz lyrics and often performed songs among the people. At the age of 9, Bayimbet learned to read and write from a local mullah. At 14, after losing his father, he was raised by his grandfather's brother, Muzooke, a well-known akyn and komuz player of that time. Four

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Akin, Singer-Komuzist, Folk Comic-Satirist Sharshen Termechikov

Akin, singer-kumuz player, folk comic-satirist Sh. Termechikov was born in the Kyonok area (now Sokuluk district of the Kirghiz SSR) in a poor family. Orphaned at an early age, he wandered from village to village, working as a laborer for wealthy landowners and manaps. From 1929 to 1931, he managed his small peasant farm. In 1931, he was hired by the Kyrgyz Drama Theater, and from 1936 until the end of his life, he worked as a comic soloist at the Toktogul Satylganov Kyrgyz Philharmonic. The

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Akzholtoy Tekinaev

Prose writer A. Tekinaev was born on January 20, 1942, in the village of Alchaluu, Chui region of the Kyrgyz SSR, in a family of a civil servant. In 1959, he graduated from high school in the village of Ak-Beshim, in 1964 he graduated from the philological faculty of KGU, and in 1971 he completed the Higher Party School in Alma-Ata. In 1964, he was appointed head of the department of the Kemin District Committee of the Komsomol of Kyrgyzstan. From 1966 to 1969, he worked as the responsible

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Usman Tashtemirov

Poet U. Tashtemirov was born in the village of Chek-Abad in the Aravan district of the Osh region in a peasant family. In 1958, he graduated from high school, and in 1972—he completed the correspondence department of the journalism faculty at Tashkent State University named after V. I. Lenin. He began his labor biography as a primary school teacher at the I. V. Michurin School. From 1962, he worked as a proofreader and a correspondent for the inter-district newspaper "Galaba bayragi"

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Literary scholar, prose writer, poet Dzaki Tashtemirov

Literary scholar, prose writer, poet Dz. Tashtemirov was born on October 15, 1913—October 7, 1988, in the village of Onbir-Dzhylga, Chui region of the Kyrgyz SSR, in a peasant family. He lost his parents early and was raised by his older sister in the Tokmak orphanage. In 1931, he entered the Tokmak Agricultural Technical School, and in 1932, he transferred to the preparatory department of the Zooveterinary Institute in Frunze, but did not complete it. In 1947, he graduated from the Kyrgyz

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Karymshak Tashbaev

Poet K. Tashbaev was born in the village of Shyrkyratma in the Soviet district of the Osh region in a peasant family. In 1953, he graduated from high school in his native village, and in 1965— from the journalism department of the Philological Faculty of KGU. He began his work biography in 1953 as an accountant in his native collective farm. From 1954 to 1957, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. Since 1957, he has been working as a drilling worker in a geological exploration team, and

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Theater Scholar, Critic, Translator Avas Syrymbetov

Theater scholar, critic, translator A. Syrymbetov was born on August 22, 1936, in the village of Kyzyl Oktyabr, Kalinin District, Kyrgyz SSR, in the family of a civil servant. In 1951, he graduated from a seven-year school in the village of Taldy-Bulak, in 1957— from high school there, and in 1962— from the theater studies faculty of the Tashkent Theater and Art Institute named after A. N. Ostrovsky. He began his career in 1951 as an actor at the Kyrgyz Drama Theater. In 1962, he was appointed

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Tugelbay Sydykbekov

Prose writer T. Sydykbekov was born in the village of Ken-Suu in the current Tyup district of the Issyk-Kul region in a peasant family. He learned to read and write at a rural primary school, then studied at the Russian primary school named after A. P. Chekhov in the city of Karakol, graduating in 1927. He studied for one year at the N. K. Krupskaya Secondary School; from 1928 to 1931, he attended the Frunze Agricultural Technical School, and in 1931, he enrolled in the Central Asian

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Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Kachkynbay Sydygaliev

Prose writer Kachkynbay Sydygaliev was born on February 2, 1934, in the village of Karoy, Chui region of the Kyrgyz SSR, in a peasant family. In 1950, he graduated from high school in the village of Onbir-Dzhilga, and in 1957— from the medical faculty of the Kyrgyz State Medical Institute. Since 1957, he worked as the chief physician of a district hospital in the village of Bek-Abad, Suzak district of Osh region, from 1960— as a therapist, then as deputy chief physician of the Chui Central

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