In Almaty will be organized an exhibition of books about “forgotten” representatives of Kazakh intelligentsia
April 9, 2014, in the National library of Kazakhstan will be organized presentation of books about Asfendiyar Kenzhin, Torebek Osmanov and AzimbayLekerov.
The book “Asfendiyar
Kenzhin. Collection of documents and materials” is about the representative of
first generation of Kazakh intelligentsia, who in the pre-revolutionary period
made a great contribution to the education of the Kazakh people. In the first
years of the Soviet power he has put a lot of efforts into making the Kazakh Autonomous
Soviet Socialist Republic.
A.Kenzhin (1887-1938),
like many of his colleagues, had to go through the numerous verifications, which
ran for many years in order to determine the degree of involvement of “Alash”
movement, organized by Political party. The collection is presented in documents
from Archive of the President of Kazakhstan. It also includes articles of A.
Kenzhin, interview with him, memories of his grandson Chingiz Dzhangildin and
photos from the family archives.
The publication “Torebek Osmanov – the first banker” (1893-1937) is
about life and political activity of Torebek Osmanov, who made a significant
contribution to the formation of the Kazakh banking and financial industry in 20-30s of 20th century. He is one of the organizers of the industrial,
agricultural and State Banks of Kazakhstan. The institution for training of
bank employees in Kazakhstan was established by his initiative. He was the editor who covered the cooperative
movement. The documents from public archives of the State and memoirs of
descendant of T.Osmanov had been used in the preparation of publication.
Life and activities of Azimbay
Lekerov (1901-1938) was described in the study of his daughter Isadora
Lekerova. She tried to restore a list of published works of her father, so this
is how the book “The first economist and Professor Azimbay Lekerov” emerged.
A. Lekerov studied at the Institute
of Red Professors, worked as one of the leaders of the State planning and then
as the director of the Kazakh Research Institute of Marxism-Leninism. He had a
wide range of research interests, focusing attention on economic issues. He was
the organizer of “Five letters”, where all authors appealed to the leadership
of Kazakh Regional Committee CPSU (b) with the call to take an action to save
the population of Kazakhstan from starvation.
The
book contains the memoirs of Widow Khalida Lekerova, born in 1915, who
described the life and environment of her spouse very colorfully and detailed. “Great terror” put an end to the activities of
the heroes mentioned in this publishing. For many years the memory of them was eliminated
by official ideology.