Critic, Literary Scholar Khalil Bapaev
Critic, literary scholar X. Bapaev was born in the village of Alim-Tep in the Karasuu district of the Osh region into a peasant family. In 1945, he graduated from the seven-year school in his native village, in 1948 — from the pedagogical college in Osh, in 1953 — from the philological faculty of KGU, and in 1962 — from the graduate school of KGU. He earned a Candidate of Philological Sciences degree in 1963. He began his career in 1953 as a teacher at the pedagogical college named after J.