An international scientific symposium dedicated to the 120th anniversary of Mukhtar Auezov was held in Almaty

Mukhtar Auezov studied and worked in Semipalatinsk, Tashkent, Leningrad. Since the 1930s he moved to Almaty. The fate of the city and the life of that period were illustrated by him in the essay "Day of Almaty".

The 185th house on Tulebayev Street, which was built for the writers, today became one of the centers of Kazakh culture and the sacred mascot of Almaty. It was here that he completed his famous work "The Way of Abay". With the support of the city’s executive committee, the memorial house museum was completely renovated by the Astana-Stroyinvest corporation.

"The head of state in his programmatic article" Future plan: Ruhani zhangyru "noted that we must protect our spiritual culture, promote our language and literature. The feather of Mukhtar Auezov became one of the best examples of Kazakh classical literature and inexhaustible inspiration for future generations," Almaty’s executive committee Bauyrzhan Baibek noted in his welcoming speech.

In the course of the symposium, leading Kazakh philology scholars delivered speeches on the creative and scientific heritage of the classic of Kazakh literature and its significance for contemporary literature and science. Literary scholars from the United States, Holland, Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Great Britain, Turkey and other countries also took part in the event.