Sculptural monuments of Kostanay.

“When they told me that Count Tolstoy had died and there would be a memorial service, I was so upset that I could not understand: no one would arrange an official memorial service for the writer. We live strangely if the authorities of the people do not always coincide with those of the state. For me, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky are holy names.”

Ybyray Altynsarin.

Architectural sights of Kostanay.

The bust of Ibray Altynsarin is located in the square of Abay, Altynsarin, Tauelsizdik streets and Al-Farabi Avenue, along Altynsarin street 118a, in the southeastern part of the Ibray Altynsarin memorial, 110 meters to the west and slightly north of the Mart shopping and entertainment center, in the southern part of the boarding school named after Altynsarin in the city of Kostanay.Bust sculptor N.A. Shcherbakov, architects: I.A. Pokrovsky, V.D. Gorchinsky. The bust was erected in 1970.
The sculptural monument is made of granite and installed on a pedestal lined with polished granite slabs. The bust was erected on the site of the former Kazakh school opened by I. Altynsarin. Ibray Altynsarin was born in 1841 in the village of Alzhanka, Kostanay district, Kostanay region.
In 1857 he successfully graduated from the Kazakh school in the city of Orenburg. Since 1869, I. Altynsarin has been working as an inspector of schools in the Turgai district. Thanks to his efforts, seven primary volost schools and four two-year schools for Kazakh children were opened, including the first schools for girls.
The creative work of I. Altynsarin was very fruitful. In addition to numerous articles published in the publications of the Russian Geographical Society and local newspapers, he published two books in 1879: “Kyrgyz Christomathia” and “A Guide to Teaching the Kirghiz Russian Language”, and later “Maktubat”.
The name of I. Altynsarin is associated with the emergence of the Kazakh alphabet and writing based on Russian graphics. I. Altynsarin was one of the most talented Kazakh writers. Along with the translation into Kazakh of the fables of I. Krylov, the stories of L. Tolstoy, he wrote short stories that truly reflected Kazakh life.
I. Altynsarin is the initiator of Kazakh artistic prose.
Geographic coordinates of bust of Ibray Altynsarin in Kostanay: N53°12'44.90" E63°38'12.15"

Authority and photos:
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Alexander Petrov.