The creative heritage of Akhmet Baitursynov: information and educational hour

On April 7, an information and educational hour “Creative Heritage of Akhmet Baitursynov” dedicated to the 150th anniversary of A. Baitursynov was held for students and teachers of the Higher Humanitarian and Law College.

At the college library specialists  organized a book exhibition in Kazakh and Russian and presented  his heritage as a poet, scientist, Turkologist, translator, teacher and publicist, presented a video review of his activities, interesting facts about his biography, works of fiction to the audience. Readers knew that A. Baitursynov made an invaluable contribution to the development of Kazakh writing, in particular, to reforming Kazakh writing based on Arabic script, which allowed millions of Kazakhs living abroad to use it. Among the interesting facts of the life and work of A. Baitursynov, information was also presented that in 1912 Akhmet Baitursynov removed all purely Arabic letters that were not used in the Kazakh language, and added the letters of the Kazakh language. The new alphabet, called "Zhana Yemle", is still used by Kazakhs living in China, Afghanistan and Iran.

Among the books from the exhibition were presented his works "Masa", "Literature guide", " Science about language", "White way, revealing the theme of humanity and humanism. The themes of his literary work were revealed in more detail, the collections "Forty Examples" and "Masa", which included his most famous fables and poems were presented .

The event was supplemented by video material about the life and work of Akhmet Baitursynov, and the audience was also introduced to the section “They are named after ...” and the electronic library “Alash”presented materials  about Akhmet Baitursynov and his family, archival and museum documents.