80th anniversary of Murat Auezov

This year, the 80th anniversary of the outstanding Kazakh public figure, culturologist, writer, Candidate of Philological Sciences Murat Mukhtarovich Auezov is widely celebrated.

Murat Auezov is the author of over 200 publications on the theory and practice of the artistic process, as well as such well-known monographs as "The Connecting Thread of Time" (1972), "Hippocrene. Walking to the Wells of Time" (1997), and "Leave to Return" (2002).

Murat Auezov devoted his whole life to the study of the Turkic, Slavic and Chinese peoples. The main idea of the writer in his works is the cultural integration of neighboring countries. Murat Auezov's teacher was his father – an outstanding writer of Kazakh literature, scientist Mukhtar Auezov, author of the first Kazakh epic novel "The Way of Abai".