Kaisenov Kasym Kaisenovich

Kasym Kaysenov (1918-2006) – participant of the Great Patriotic War, partisan.

Born on April 23, 1918 in the village of Asu-Bulak Ulansky district East Kazakhstan region. After graduating from school in 1934, he entered the political and educational college in Ust-Kamenogorsk. In 1938, after graduating from college, he worked as an instructor at the Pavlodar Regional Department of Public Education, from where he was drafted into the army, and then was sent to the school of military intelligence.

After graduating from the military intelligence school in November 1941, he was sent to the headquarters of the North-Western Front, from where, having received a special assignment, he was thrown behind enemy lines to organize a partisan movement on the territory of occupied Ukraine.

At the end of November 1941, an underground partisan center was organized in the village of Makedony in the Rzhishchevsky district of the Kiev region. One of its organizers was Kasym Kaysenov. Already in the spring of 1942, the underground organized a partisan detachment, in which K. Kaysenov became the commander of the bombers. In December 1942, several small detachments united into a large partisan unit named after V. I. Chapaev. Kasym Kaysenov was appointed commander of the third detachment.

Kasym and his friends especially distinguished themselves on September 20-21, 1943, when they assisted Soviet army units in crossing the Dnieper and holding a bridgehead on its right bank. Later, until the end of 1944, K. Kaysenov participated in partisan movements on the territories of Moldova, Czechoslovakia, Transcarpathia, Romania on the territory of Western Ukraine. In Ukraine, Kaysenov organized partisan detachments and at the same time engaged in sabotage work.

As a squad leader, he participated in more than a hundred military campaigns and sabotage. Among his exploits are the capture of the Bukrinsky bridgehead, the release of over seven hundred political prisoners from the Belaya Tanya concentration camp, the crossing of the Dnieper, etc.

After the end of the war, K. Kaisenov returned to Kazakhstan and worked as a responsible employee in the Office of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR. As deputy chairman of the district executive committee of the Zhualin and Sverdlovsk districts of the Zhambyl region, he actively participated in the restoration of the post-war national economy. From 1951 to 1954 he studied at the department of translators of the biennial party school under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan. From 1953 to 1972 . He worked as deputy director of the publishing house "Zhazushy", director of the Bureau of propaganda of fiction at the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan, deputy director of the publishing house "Kainar".

Kasym Kaysenov is the founder of the theme of guerrilla warfare in Kazakh literature, the author of almost 30 books, such as "Young Partisan" (1954), "Ilko Vitryak", "Partisans of Pereyaslavl", "In the Jaws of Death", "Boy behind enemy lines", "On the Dnieper", "Behind enemy lines", "Partisan trails" and numerous short stories, essays, collections of novels. Many of the author's works have been translated into Russian, Ukrainian and other languages.

Member of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan (1957).

He was awarded the Orders of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the Patriotic War I degree, the Order of Merit, the Badge of the Czechoslovak partisan, 25 medals of the USSR and foreign countries, Certificates of Honor of the Kazakh SSR and the Ukrainian SSR. The Government of sovereign Ukraine awarded him the Orders "For Special Merits" of the III and II degrees.

In 1995, he was awarded the title of People's Hero of Kazakhstan (Halyk Kaharmany), and the military rank of colonel, the Order of Otan, awarded the prize of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan named after B. Momyshuly, laureate of the International Prize named after A. Fadeev.

He died on December 30, 2006.

By the decision of the XX session of the Ulan district Maslikhat of the II convocation No. 10 dated 25.06.1998, the title "Honorary Citizen of the Ulan district" was awarded.