Name in history: Kanysh Satbayev


Kanysh Imantayevich Satpayev (1899-1964) was a Soviet geologist, organizer of science and a public figure. He was born in village No. 4 in the Pavlodar district of the Semipalatinsk region of the Russian Empire. He came from the Karzhas subgenus of the Suyindyk clan of the Argyn tribe. Graduated Siberian Institute of Technology (1926). In the 1930s and 1940s, he studied the Dzhezkazgan copper deposit, which at that time became the largest in terms of projected reserves. Founder of the metallogeny school in Kazakhstan. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, the Lenin Prize (1958) and the Stalin Prize (1942). He died in Moscow.  He was buried at the Central Cemetery of Alma Ata.


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