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The monument to the batyr Sarka Mendybekuly is located at an altitude of 349 meters above sea level, located 40 meters east of the A-25 Aktobe-Orsk highway, 430 meters south-west of the southern tip of the Kok-Estek village in the Kargaly district in the northern part of Aktobe areas.
In September 2019, a monument to the great Kazakh batyr Sarka Mendybekuly was erected near the village of Kok-Esek. The monument was erected on a 5-meter pedestal. Batyr Sarke is depicted sitting on a horse and holding a spear.
The total height of the horse and rider is 5 meters, the height from the pedestal to the top of the spear reaches 7 meters. The monument is made of copper. The author of the monument is a sculptor from Shymkent Abdukarim Akhmetov.
Sarke Batyr Mendibekuly (kaz. Sarke batyr Mendibekuly; 1690 - 1772) - Kazakh batyr, during the reign of Tauke and Abulkhair Khan of the Younger Zhuz. Born in 1690, real name Mendibek Shonmurynuly. Sarke batyr's father Shonmuryn Baba at the beginning of the ΧVΙΙΙ century was one of the most influential and wealthy people of the Younger Zhuz, having eleven thousand horses.
Shonmuryn had 6 sons - Begetey, Ulan, Asan, Sarke, Rysbay and Tukibay. Descended from the genus Zhagalbayly of the subgenus Bilis, living in the territories of the Orenburg, Aktobe and Kostanay regions. In 1726, as part of the Kazakh army led by Abulkhair Khan and Tailak Batyr, he took part in a three-day battle with more than 30,000 Kalmyk soldiers on the Ural River.
In the autumn of 1726, in a place called "Black Cow" in the vicinity between the Irgiz and Turgay rivers, he was one of those who stood at the forefront of the Kazakh army in the battle with the Dzungars, for which he received the nickname "Golden Club, Diamond Sword".
In 1729, in the area of Lake Balkhash, there was a Kazakh army led by Abulkhair Khan, Sarke-batyr was already at the head of the troops from the Zhagalbayly clan. It is mentioned in the charter on the accession of the Kazakhs of the Middle and Younger Zhuz to the Russian Empire, which bears the signatures of Abulkhair Khan, the Sultan of Yeraly, as well as the aksakals and batyrs of 56 Kazakh families of the Middle and Younger Zhuz.
From Jagalbayla, the signature was put by Sarke-batyr. During the uprising of the Bashkirs against the tsarist regime in 1755, detachments consisting of Cossacks and Volga Kalmyks, pursuing the Bashkirs, were stopped by the Kazakhs of the Zhetyru clan under the leadership of Sarke batyr.
He organized a friendly meeting with the Bashkirs on a small hill 5 - 6 kilometers from the Yaik River, now this place is called Sarke Tobe (Sarke hill) in the Belyaevsky district of the Orenburg region, 15 km from the regional center.
Serke Batyr was buried near the Temir River, the right tributary of the Emba, after his death at the age of 82. The grave is located near the village of Kenkiyak, Temir district, Aktobe region, Kazakhstan.
Geographical coordinates of monument batyr Sarka Mendybekuly: N50°43'35.93" E57°52'31.45"

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Alexander Petrov.