Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Rosa Mukasheva

Poet R. Mukasheva was born in the village of Bokonbaev in the Ton district of the Issyk-Kul region in a peasant family. In 1966, she graduated from A. M. Gorky Secondary School in her native village, and in 1971, she graduated from the technological faculty of the FPI. She began her career as a technology engineer at a canning factory in the Sokuluk district, and from 1973, she worked as an editor in the industrial department of the State Committee for Television and Radio of the Kyrgyz SSR.

14.09.2015, 01:08

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

The Poet Gulsaira Momunova

Poet G. Momunova was born in the village of Ken-Aral in the Leninpol district of the Talas region in a peasant family. In 1955, she graduated from Secondary School No. 1 in the city of Talas, and in 1960 from the V. Mayakovsky Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute. From 1961 to 1969, she worked as a literary employee at the editorial office of the newspaper "Sovettik Kyrgyzstan," and from 1971 as an editor at the "Kyrgyzstan" publishing house. From 1973, she served as the

14.09.2015, 01:01

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Turgunaly Moldobaev

Poet T. Moldobaev was born on March 15, 1934, in the village of Tegene, Jangi-Jol District, Osh Region, in a peasant family. In 1952, he graduated from high school in Jalal-Abad, and in 1957, he graduated from the philological faculty of KGU. Since 1957, he has worked in the editorial office of the Jalal-Abad regional newspaper "Kommunizm tuusu," then as a literary employee in the editorial office of the newspaper "Kyrgyzstan pioneri," and as a senior editor of the literary

12.09.2015, 01:16

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Prose Writer Abdykalyy Moldokmatov

Poet and prose writer A. Moldokmatov was born on May 21, 1935—July 22, 1977, in the village of Saru in the Jety-Oguz district of the Issyk-Kul region, in a peasant family. In 1952, he graduated from high school in his native village, in 1960— from the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute under the USSR Writers' Union in Moscow, and in 1966— from the journalism department of the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He began his labor

12.09.2015, 01:06

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Prose Writer Tash Miyashev

Poet and prose writer T. Miyashev was born in the village of Papai in the Karasuu district of the Osh region into a peasant family. He graduated from high school in Osh in 1951 and from the Osh Pedagogical Institute in 1967. From 1967 to 1969, he was a student at the Higher Literary Courses under the Union of Soviet Writers in Moscow. He began his labor biography in 1951 at the editorial office of the newspaper "Lenin yolu," worked as a teacher at the "Bolshevik" high

11.09.2015, 00:12

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Mikhail Menshikov

Prose writer M. Menshikov was born in the village of Kuzino in the Makhnevsky district of the Sverdlovsk region of the RSFSR in a family of poor peasants. From 1919 to 1927, he was raised in orphanages in Sverdlovsk, Kazan, and Leningrad. At 14, he worked as an apprentice accountant, miner, and bookkeeper. From 1930 to 1938, he was a correspondent for various publications in the Urals, writing extensively about the construction projects of the first five-year plans — Uralmash, ChTZ,

11.09.2015, 00:02

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Dzhakyp Medetov

Prose writer Dzh. Medetov was born in the village of Terek in the Talas district of the Talas region in a peasant family. In 1958, he graduated from Aral Secondary School, and in 1963 — from the philological faculty of KSU. He began his career as a teacher at the Naunkent Secondary School No. 9 in the Lenin district of the Osh region. Since 1965, he worked as a literary employee at the editorial office of the Osh regional newspaper "Lenin yolu". From 1966 to 1971, he served as an

10.09.2015, 23:55

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Critic Asylbek Medetbekov

Poet and critic A. Medetbekov was born on June 29, 1939, in the village of Ken-Aral, Leninpol District, Talas Region, in a peasant family. In 1957, he graduated from the Chaldovar Boarding School, and in 1962, he graduated from the Philological Faculty of KSU. From 1964 to 1967, he studied in the postgraduate program at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR. He earned a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences degree in 1971. He began his career as a

10.09.2015, 23:39

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer, Critic Esenbek Mederbekov

Prose writer and critic E. Mederbekov was born in the village of Oktyabr in the Sokuluk district of the Kirghiz SSR to a collective farmer's family. In 1954, he graduated from Kyrgyz Secondary School No. 5 named after A. S. Pushkin in Frunze, and in 1959, he graduated from the Russian department of the philological faculty of KGU. Since 1959, he worked as a laborer at various industrial enterprises in Frunze, and from 1962, he has been working as an editor at the State Committee for

10.09.2015, 01:08

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Critic, Literary Scholar Kadyrbek Matiyev

Critic, literary scholar Kadyrbek Matiev was born in the village of Ak-Took in the Suzak district of the Osh region in a peasant family. In 1952, he graduated from the seven-year school "Osumdak" in his native village, in 1955 from the Jalal-Abad Pedagogical College named after A. S. Pushkin, and in 1960 from the philological faculty of KGU. From 1962 to 1965, he studied in the postgraduate program at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR.

09.09.2015, 22:08

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Prose Writer Ishenbay Mansurov

Poet and prose writer I. Mansurov was born on December 29, 1936—September 9, 1988, in the village of Orto-Oryukty, Issyk-Kul district, Issyk-Kul region, in a peasant family. In 1954, he graduated from Kyrgyz Secondary School No. 5 named after A. S. Pushkin in Frunze, and in 1961, he graduated from the philological faculty of KGU. He began his labor biography in 1961 as an editor, then was appointed deputy chief editor of the State Committee for Television and Radio of the Kyrgyz SSR. From

09.09.2015, 21:46

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Jolon Mamytov

Poet J. Mamytov was born on April 1, 1940—March 7, 1988, in the village of Tuleyken, Kara-Suu district, Osh region, in a peasant family. In 1957, he graduated from high school in his native village, and in 1962, he graduated from the veterinary faculty of the Kyrgyz State Agricultural Institute named after K. I. Skryabin. From 1969 to 1971, he was a student at the Higher Party School of the CPSU in Moscow. He began his career as the chief veterinarian of the "Katta-Taldyk" state farm

09.09.2015, 21:38

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, storyteller-manaschi Urkash Mambetaliev

Poet, storyteller-manaschi U. Mambetaliev was born on March 8, 1934, in the village of Taldy-Suu, Tyup District, Issyk-Kul Region, in a peasant family. In 1955, he graduated from M. Elebaev Secondary School in his native village. From 1955 to 1957, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. In 1957, he was invited to be an actor at the Issyk-Kul Regional Drama Theater in Przhevalsk. For some time, he worked at the Kyrgyz Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, and since 1973, he has been a soloist

09.09.2015, 02:39

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Prose Writer Dzhenbap Mambetaliev

Poet and prose writer D. Mambetaliev was born on December 18, 1938, in the village of Ottyk, Tian-Shan district of Naryn region, in a peasant family. In 1956, he graduated from Ottyk Secondary School, and in 1963 — from KGMU. He began his career as a doctor and worked until 1969 in various medical institutions of the republic. Since 1969, he has been the responsible secretary of the magazine "Den sboluk". His creative biography began in 1962. His first book was a collection of

09.09.2015, 02:07

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

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

09.09.2015, 01:52

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer, Poet Mendi Mamazairov

Prose writer and poet M. Mamazairova was born on May 1, 1943, in the village of Tuleyken, Karasuu District, Osh Region, in a family of collective farmers. In 1959, she graduated from high school in her native village, and in 1965, she graduated from the philological faculty of KGU. She began her labor biography in 1965 as an editor at the State Committee for Television and Radio of the Kyrgyz SSR. From 1966, she worked as a teacher of the Kyrgyz language and literature at the V. V. Mayakovsky

09.09.2015, 01:44

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, playwright Kubanychbek Malikov

Poet and playwright K. Malikov was born in the village of Uch-Emchek in the present-day Alamedin district of the Kyrgyz SSR into a peasant family of poor farmers. In 1926, he graduated from a rural primary school, and in 1931, he graduated from the Kyrgyz Pedagogical Technical School in Frunze. He began his labor biography in 1926 as a correspondent for the newspaper "Erkin-Too" in the Frunze region. In 1931, he worked as the head of a department at the editorial office of the

09.09.2015, 00:37

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer, Poet Junay Mavlyanov

Prose writer and poet J. Mavlyanov was born in the village of Renzhit (now the village of Kosh-Tyube) in the Jangi-Jol district of the Osh region in a peasant family. In 1941, he graduated from the Jalal-Abad Pedagogical School, in 1950 — from the Jalal-Abad Teacher's Institute, and in 1952 — from the correspondence department of KRU- From 1961 to 1963, he was a student at the Higher Literary Courses under the Union of Writers of the USSR in Moscow. From 1942 to 1944, he served on the

08.09.2015, 16:03

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Svetlana Lugovaya

Poet S. Lugovaya was born in the city of Osh, Kyrgyz SSR, in a military family. In 1959, she graduated from Secondary School No. 4 in Frunze, in 1963 — from the M. Kureneev Music College, and in 1969 — from the evening department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages at KRU. Since 1963, she worked as a clerk at the "Kyrgyzgiprozem" institute, then as an archivist at the Council of Ministers of the Kyrgyz SSR. Since 1969, she taught at Secondary Schools No. 53 and No. 37 in Frunze.

08.09.2015, 15:51

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Anton Levchenko

Prose writer A. Levchenko was born on 5th October 1941 in the village of Shevchenko, Odessa region of the Ukrainian SSR, in a peasant family. In 1958, he graduated from high school in his native village, studied at the Ural School of Mechanization, attended the correspondence department of the Tselinograd Medical Institute in 1969, and in 1973 graduated from the journalism department of the Alma-Ata Higher Party School. From 1960 to 1963, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. Since 1963,

08.09.2015, 15:45

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Translator Esentur Kylychev

Poet and translator E. Kilychev was born on February 2, 1952, in the village of Ak-Kiya, Tien-Shan district of Naryn region, in a teacher's family. In 1969, he graduated from Kyrgyz Secondary School No. 5 named after A. S. Pushkin in Frunze and enrolled in the philological faculty of KGU, from which he transferred to Leningrad State University named after A. A. Zhdanova in his third year and graduated in 1975. He began his career as a literary worker, then became an editor, and since 1980

07.09.2015, 20:27

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Prose Writer Abdrasul Kylychev

Poet and prose writer A. Kilychev was born in the village of Orto-Sai near the city of Naryn in the Kyrgyz SSR to a peasant family. In 1939, he graduated from high school in his native village, and in 1939, he graduated from the Frunze Teacher's Institute, followed by the RPSH at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan. In 1940, he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army, and in 1942, he graduated from a military school and fought on the fronts of the Great

07.09.2015, 20:20

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Abzii Kydyrov

Poet A. Kydyrov was born on January 1, 1931, in the village of Kyochu in the present-day Tyup district of the Issyk-Kul region, in a peasant family. In 1950, he graduated from the M. Elebaev Secondary School in the village of Taldy-Suu. From 1961 to 1963, he studied at the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute under the USSR Union of Writers in Moscow. He began his labor biography in 1950 as a pioneer leader at a seven-year school in his native village. In 1951-1952, he served in the ranks of the

07.09.2015, 19:21

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Tenti Kydyraliev

Prose writer T. Kydyraiev was born on February 12, 1932—August 3, 1973, in the village of Ak-Shiyrak, Jeti-Oguz district, Issyk-Kul region, in a peasant family. In 1947, he graduated from Ak-Shiyrak seven-year school, in 1950 — from Przhevalsk Pedagogical School, and in 1952 — from the Faculty of Language and Literature of Przhevalsk Pedagogical Institute. In 1952, he was appointed as the deputy director of Ak-Shiyrak seven-year school. From 1958, he worked as a teacher of his native language

07.09.2015, 19:08

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Kasym Kushubekov

Prose writer K. Kushubekov was born on May 24, 1949, in the village of Pik, Talas district, Talas region, in a peasant family. In 1966, he graduated from Kyrgyz Secondary School No. 1 in Talas, and in 1972, he completed the philological faculty at KGU. He began his career in 1966 as a pioneer leader at the Chaldovar boarding school in the Leninpol district, and from 1972, he worked there as a teacher of his native language and literature. Since 1973, he has been working as an editor at the

07.09.2015, 01:48

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Sabyrbek Kuruchbekov

Poet S. Kuruchbekov was born in Frunze in a family of a civil servant. In 1974, he graduated from Secondary School No. 26 in Frunze, and in 1980, he graduated from the Russian department of the philological faculty of KGU named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. He began his labor biography as a worker at a factory. Since 1980, he worked as a junior editor and editor at the publishing house "Kyrgyzstan," and since 1986, he has been the editor of the prose department at the

07.09.2015, 01:41

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Akynbek Kuruchbekov

Poet A. Kuruchbekov was born on December 5, 1922 — November 29, 1988, in the village of Eryktu, Kalinin District of the Kyrgyz SSR, in a peasant family. After graduating from the Erkinsai seven-year school in 1940, he studied at the Frunze Hydromelioration Technical School and graduated from a two-year law school in Frunze in 1947. In 1941, he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army and served in a cavalry regiment. In 1942, he was seriously wounded and, after hospitalization, was

07.09.2015, 01:34

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Omurkul Kulumbaev

Poet O. Kulumbaev was born on May 15, 1933, in the village of Terek-Suu, At-Bashinsky district of Naryn region, in a peasant family. In 1950, he graduated from high school in his native village and began his working career as a typesetter at the Naryn regional printing house. From 1954 to 1957, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. Since 1957, he worked in the Naryn City Executive Committee, and from 1958, he served as an assistant to the head of the Tien Shan regional military enlistment

07.09.2015, 01:27

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Orozbay Kochkonov

Poet O. Kochkonov was born in the village of Kalinino in the Jangi-Jol district of the Osh region into a peasant family. In 1958, he graduated from Ak-Suu Secondary School, and in 1966, he completed the journalism department of the philological faculty at KGU. He began his labor biography in 1958 as a collective farmer. From 1966, he worked as a literary employee at the editorial office of the district newspaper "Leninchil," from 1968 as a correspondent for the Osh regional committee

07.09.2015, 01:17

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Prose Writer Yevgeny Kolesnikov

Poet and prose writer E. Kolesnikov was born on January 7, 1933, in the village of Veseloyarsk, Altai Krai, RSFSR, in a peasant family. In 1953, he graduated from Veseloyarsk Secondary School, and in 1961, he graduated from the Russian department of the philological faculty of KSU. Since 1953, he worked as a laborer on construction sites in the Urals, and from 1961, he was a teacher of Russian language and literature at Kichi-Kemin Secondary School. From 1963, he was a literary staff member at

07.09.2015, 01:05

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Prose Writer, Translator Tolegen Kozubekov

Poet, prose writer, translator T. Kozubekov was born on February 10, 1937, in the village of Kyzyl-Djar, Leninpol District, Talas Region, in a peasant family. In 1955, he graduated from Talas Secondary School No. 1, and in 1961, he graduated from the philological faculty of K. GU. Since 1962, he worked as an editor, senior editor of children's broadcasting at the State Television and Radio Committee of the Kyrgyz SSR, and from 1974 as a senior editor, head of the department, and deputy

06.09.2015, 22:49

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

The Poet Turar Kodzhomberdiev

Poet T. Kodzhomberdiev was born on October 15, 1941—January 30, 1989, in the village of Sary-Bulak, Kalinin District, Kyrgyz SSR, in the family of a collective farm horse herder. In 1959, he graduated from Kyrgyz Secondary School No. 5 named after A. S. Pushkin in Frunze, and in 1966, he graduated from the philological faculty of KGU. He began his labor biography as a literary staff member in the editorial office of the newspaper "Kyrgyzstan Pioneri," and from 1969, he worked as an

06.09.2015, 22:43

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Evgeny Kovsky

Prose writer E. Kovsky was born in the city of Olgopol in the former Kamieniec-Podolski province in a family of a supervisor of a zemstvo hospital. After graduating from the Kamieniec-Podolski gymnasium, he continued his education in Odessa. After the establishment of Soviet power in Ukraine in 1920, he enrolled in the Odessa Polytechnic Institute but did not complete his studies. Since 1918, he served in a student guard battalion. In 1919, he volunteered to join the ranks of the Red Army,

06.09.2015, 22:28

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Critic, Literary Scholar Bibi Kerimdzhanova

Critic, literary scholar B. Kerimdzhanova was born on October 30, 1920, in the village of Beryu-bash in the current Ak-Suu district of the Issyk-Kul region, in a family of a poor peasant. In 1937, she graduated from a workers' faculty, in 1941— from the Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute, in 1947— from the postgraduate program at the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and in 1950— from the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet

06.09.2015, 22:19

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Tolegen Kasymbekov

Prose writer T. Kasymbekov was born on January 15, 1931, in the village of Ak-Dzhol, Jangi-Jol District, Osh Region, in a peasant family. In 1949, he graduated from the Kara-Dzhigach Secondary School, and in 1957, he graduated from the philological faculty of KGU. He began his career as a primary school teacher in his native village. From 1951, he worked as the responsible secretary of the Kichi-Akdzhol village council. Since 1957, he has been working as an editor in the children's and

06.09.2015, 22:10

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Critic, Literary Scholar Sanarbek Karymshakov

Critic, literary scholar S. Karymshakov was born on October 20, 1941, in the village of Kyzart, Jumgal District, Naryn Region, in a peasant family. In 1957, he graduated from high school in his native village, and in 1962, he graduated from the philological faculty of KGU. From 1964 to 1967, he studied in graduate school at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR. He began his career in 1962 as an editor of the music editorial office of the State

06.09.2015, 21:57

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Madzhit Karimov

. Prose writer M. Karimov was born on November 10, 1937, in the village of Sakaldy, Lenin District, Osh Region, in a peasant family. Having lost his parents at an early age, he was raised in a children's home in Jalal-Abad. In 1956, he graduated from a boarding school in his native village, and in 1965, he graduated from the philological faculty of KSU. He began his work biography in 1956 as a pioneer leader at a secondary school in Lenin District, Osh Region. In 1965, he was appointed as

04.09.2015, 03:31

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer, Poet, Journalist Sydyk Karachev

Prose writer, poet, journalist S. Karachev was born in 1900—1937 in the village of Jiluu-Bulak, now in the Tyup district of the Issyk-Kul region, in a family of a poor peasant. He received his initial education in a Tatar school in the city of Karakol (now Przhevalsk). From 1921 to 1923, he studied at the military school named after V. I. Lenin in Tashkent. In 1918, he joined the Red Guards under the command of Mambet Suymbaev and actively participated in the fight against the White Guards in

04.09.2015, 03:22

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Teller of Epics, Storyteller, Manaschi Sayakbay Karalaev

The storyteller of epics, storyteller, manaschi S. Karalaev was born in the village of Semiz-Bel near the wintering grounds of Ak-Olen in the present-day Ton district of the Issyk-Kul region in a poor family. From the age of 12, he worked as a laborer for local landlords with his father. During the events of 1916, he fled to China; upon returning to his homeland in 1917, he again worked as a laborer for the wealthy. In 1918, he voluntarily joined a detachment of Red Guards and defended Soviet

04.09.2015, 01:04

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

The Poet Rosa Karagulova

Poet R. Karagulova was born on July 30, 1946, in the city of Talas, Kyrgyz SSR, in a family of civil servants. In 1965, she graduated from Chon-Korgon Secondary School, and in 1970, from the philological faculty of KGU. From 1971 to 1972, she worked in the editorial office of the newspaper "Sovet tik Kyrgyzstan." Since 1972, she has been teaching her native language and literature in eight-year schools in the villages of Iyri-Suu and Min-Bulak in the Naryn region, and from 1975 to

04.09.2015, 00:29

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Translator Bilim Karagulov

Poet and translator B. Karagulov was born on May 1, 1936, in the village of Chayek, Jumgal district, Naryn region, in a peasant family. In 1954, he graduated from high school in his native village, in 1959 — from the philological faculty of KGU, and in 1969 — from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow. He began his labor biography in 1959 as the head of a department at the editorial office of the newspaper "Kyrgyzstan

04.09.2015, 00:02

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Nuraly Kanarov

Poet N. Kanarov was born on March 4, 1957, in the village of Tegirmenti, Kemin District, Kyrgyz SSR, in a peasant family. In 1975, he graduated from high school in his native village, and in 1980, he completed the journalism department of the philological faculty of KSU named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. He began his career in 1980 as a correspondent for the newspaper "Leiinchil Zhas." Currently, he is the head of the department at the editorial office of this newspaper.

03.09.2015, 23:49

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer Kasym Kaimov

Prose writer K. Kaimov was born on March 6, 1926, and passed away on July 13, 1989, in the village of Ozgorush, Talas district, Talas region, in a peasant-poor family. In 1942, he graduated from 9th grade of secondary school, in 1945 — from the Frunze Teacher's Institute, and in 1949 — from the Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute. He began his work biography in 1942 as the responsible secretary of the Budennovsk district newspaper. While studying at the university, he collaborated with the

03.09.2015, 23:43

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Prose Writer, Critic Dairbek Kazakbaev

Prose writer and critic D. Kazakbaev was born on June 20, 1940, in the village of Dzhan-Talap, Ak-Talinsky district of Naryn region, in a peasant family. In 1958, he graduated from Kyrgyz Secondary School No. 5 named after A. S. Pushkin in Frunze, and from 1958 to 1960, he studied at the philological faculty of KGU. In 1965, he graduated from the Literary Institute named after A. M. Gorky under the USSR Union of Writers in Moscow, and in 1974, he completed his postgraduate studies at Lomonosov

03.09.2015, 23:36

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet Satybaldy Kadyrov

Poet S. Kadyrov was born on March 15, 1942, in the village of Nichke, Uzgen district, Osh region, in a peasant family. In 1959, he graduated from high school, in 1961— from the Jalal-Abad Pedagogical School named after A. S. Pushkin, and in 1970— from the correspondence department of the philological faculty of KGU. He began his career as a primary school teacher at the V. I. Lenin High School in the Janay-Dzhol district. Since 1967, he worked as a high school teacher in the Uzgen district,

03.09.2015, 23:26

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Prose Writer Isabek Isakov

Poet and prose writer I. Isakov was born on September 1, 1933, in the village of Kochkorka, Kochkorka District, Naryn Region, in a carpenter's family. In 1950, he graduated from high school in his native village, in 1952 — from the Frunze Teacher Training Institute, and in 1958 — from the correspondence course of the Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute. From 1952, he worked as the head of the department at the editorial office of the newspaper "Kyrgyzstan Pioneri," from 1956 — as

03.09.2015, 23:19

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Poet, Translator Nikolai Imshenetsky

Poet and translator N. Imshenetckiy was born on July 18, 1918, in the village of Buras (now the village of Bolshaya Vladimirovna) in the Pavlodar region of the Kazakh SSR, in a tailor's family. Since 1926, he has lived in Kyrgyzstan. In 1936, he graduated from high school, and in 1939— from the Kyrgyz State Pedagogical Institute. In the same year, he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army and participated in the Great Patriotic War. His creative biography began in 1949. In 1950,

03.09.2015, 23:02

Writers of Kyrgyzstan

Improvising Poet and Komuz Player Chalagyz Imankulov

Akin-improviser and komuz player Ch. Imankulov was born in the village of Korumdu in the Issyk-Kul district of the Issyk-Kul region in a peasant family. From 1924 to 1932, he served as the secretary of the Temirovsky, and from 1932 to 1933, he was the chairman of the Tashtak village council. In 1933, he was hired by Kyrgyz Radio in Frunze, and from 1934 to 1936, he worked at the Kyrgyz Drama Theater, and from 1936, he was a soloist at the Toktogul Satylganov Kyrgyz Philharmonic. Even before

03.09.2015, 21:42