Prose Writer Kasymaly Bayalinov
Prose writer K. Bayalynov was born on September 25, 1902—September 3, 1979, in the Kotmaldy area (village of Kok-Moynok, now in the Issyk-Kul district of the Issyk-Kul region) in a family of semi-nomadic middle peasants. Orphaned at an early age, he was raised by relatives. During the events of 1916, he found himself in China among refugees. After the Great October Revolution, upon returning to his homeland, he worked as a laborer for kulaks in the village of Kochkorka, and in 1918 he walked