This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Kanysh Imantayevich Satpayev, a scientist-geologist, founder of the science and School of metallogeny, the first president and academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR. He was born on April 12, 1899. His name is inextricably linked with the period of formation of industry and science in Kazakhstan. K.Satpayev was the first Kazakh geologist to discover the minerals of the subsoil of Kazakhstan, copper reserves in Zhezkazgan, the organizer and first president of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, the first academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences from the eastern republics of the Soviet Union, a deputy of the Supreme Council of the USSR and the Kazakh SSR, a laureate of State and Lenin prizes, four times awarded the Order of Lenin, The Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 2nd degree.