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Name in history: Shakarim Kudaiberdiev

Shakarim Kudaiberdiev is a Kazakh poet, writer, translator, composer, historian and philosopher. He was born on July 23, 1858 in Ken–Bulak, Semipalatinsk region. He died on October 2, 1931 in the Chingistau tract, USSR. Nephew and pupil of Abai. He received an elementary Muslim education, began composing poetry at the age of 14, and was actively engaged in self-education. He is the author of the poems “Kalkaman–Mamyr“ (1888), “Enlik–Kebek“ (1891), “Aisulu–Nartailak“ (1892), imbued with socio–critical motives. The main philosophical work is the treatise “Three Truths“ (publ. in 1991), which explores the issues of life and death, existence and cognition, the origin of man and the world. He performed a verse translation into Kazakh of A. S. Pushkin‘s novellas “Dubrovsky“ and “Snowstorm“ (1936). Among the prose works are “The Genealogy of the Turks, Kirghizs, Kazakhs and Khan dynasties“ (1911), which summed up many years of work on the study of the history of the Kazakh people, as well as “Fundamentals of Islam“ (1908).

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