125 years since the birth of Kanysh Satpayev

Today is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Kanysh Imantayevich Satpayev, a great scientist, the founder of the Kazakhstan Scientific School of Geologists, the founder of Kazakhstan metallurgical Science, the first president and academician of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences. Satbaev Kanysh Imantayevich Satbaev was born on April 12, 1899. His name is closely connected with the period of the formation of industry and science in Kazakhstan. Satbaev K.I. - the first Kazakh geologist who discovered the subsoil of Kazakhstan, copper reserves in Zhezkazgan, organizer and the first president of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, the first academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from the eastern republics of the Soviet Union, deputy of the Supreme Soviets of the USSR and the Kazakh SSR.

Satbaev K.I. was born in the Bayanaul district of the Pavlodar region. The future scientist first studied at the local mullah, then at the Pavlodar Russian-Kazakh school, at the Semipalatinsk teacher's seminary, and the mining faculty of the Tomsk Institute of Technology. He studied at the Teachers' Seminary together with prominent figures such as J. Aimautov and M. Auezov. He was in close contact with Sh. Kudaiberdyuly and highly appreciated his creativity.

In cities and villages of Kazakhstan, hundreds of streets and more than 40 schools are named after Satpayev. Monuments to the scientists were also erected.

His name was given to the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, the largest technical university in the country—Kazakh National Technical University, and to one city in Kazakhstan.

In Satpayev's honor are named a glacier and a peak on the Dzungarian (Zhetysu) Alatau ridge, the mineral "Satbaevit" found on the vanadium deposit in Karatau, the gladiolus flower "Academician Satpayev," and even one planet. He was awarded the Order of Lenin four times and the Order of Patriotic War of the 2nd degree.