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Name in history: Shoqan Walikhanov

Chokan Genghisovich Valikhanov was the first Kazakh scientist and educator, historian, ethnographer, folklorist, and traveler. He was born in November 1835 in the Kuntimes winter settlement of the Amankaragai outer district. He died on April 10, 1865 in the Kochen–Togan tract, Kerbulak district, Tobolsk province. After graduating from the Omsk Cadet Corps (1853), he served under the Governor–General of Western Siberia. Participated in a number of expeditions to Central Asia and China. He made a great contribution to Russian Oriental studies, and left valuable research on the history and culture of the peoples of Central Asia. For the first time he recorded and translated into Russian a part of the Kyrgyz heroic epic “Manas“. He collected historical legends and materials on Kazakh mythology. He studied the peculiarities of the improvisational art of akyns, Kazakh folk songs, and the rhythmics of Kazakh verse.

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