Thematic Tours in Kyrgyzstan.

"Year of the Leopard. When the year of the leopard comes, hatred, malice and enmity will appear among the people, winter will last a long time, four-legged animals will die, unrest and bad thoughts will increase among the rulers, many harmful animals will appear, the waters in the rivers will multiply, in some countries there will be bloodshed, crops will perish. - Every child who is born at the beginning of this year will be distinguished by exploits, his face will be beautiful; if he is born in the middle of the year, he will be vindictive!.."

N. Katanov. "Signs and beliefs of the Turks of Chinese Turkestan concerning natural phenomena." 1897.

Outstanding People of Kyrgyzstan.

Kusein Karasayev (Kyrgyz. Kusein Karasay uulu was born on January 5, 1901 in the village of Ken-Suu, Kensuy volost, Karakol district, Semirechye region, now this Tyup district of the Issyk-Kul region located in the southeast of Kyrgyzstan. Kusein Karasayev was a Kyrgyz and Soviet linguist, lexicographer, teacher, literary scholar, folklorist, and Turkologist.
Kusein Karasayev defended his PhD dissertation in philology in 1944, and was awarded the title of professor in 1966. Honored Scientist of the Kyrgyz Republic since 1992. He was an honorary academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyzstan.
Laureate of the Kasym Tynystanov State Prize. Kusein Karasayev was born into a wealthy and respected family, where special attention was paid to was given to education. From an early age he learned to read and write and read the Koran from the imam of his village. He worked as a shepherd.
In 1914 - 1916, Karasayev studied at a Russian school in the city of Przhevalsk, and then, in 1923 - 1927, he continued his education at the Kazakh-Kyrgyz Pedagogical Institute in Tashkent. In 1931, he completed his bachelor's degree at the Leningrad Institute of Oriental Languages.
During the uprising of the Kyrgyz people in 1916, he and his family were forced to move to China. In 1921, the family returned to their homeland, and from 1923 to 1924 he worked in the village of Toktoyan. Kusein Karasayev began his career in the Tashkent newspaper "Erkin-Too" ("Free Mountains"), and on November 7, 1924, he published his first newspaper in the Kyrgyz language using Arabic script.
In 1925, Kusein Karasayev went to Tashkent, where he entered the Central Asian State University. After graduating, he worked in the first Kyrgyz newspaper in Tashkent. From 1924 to 1925, he taught at the workers' faculty of the Central Asian State University, was a member of the Central Asian Bureau of Translators and Reviewers of the Central Committee of the Party.
In 1926, he participated in the creation of the book "Zhanylyk", aimed at eliminating illiteracy among the Kyrgyz population. In 1927, he took part in a plenum in Baku (Azerbaijan), dedicated to the introduction of a new Turkish alphabet. He soon left his studies in Tashkent to continue his education, and in 1928 he entered the Turkological Seminary at the Leningrad Oriental Institute, where he also taught linguistics.
In 1931, he successfully graduated from the A. Yenukidze Institute of Oriental Languages ​​in Leningrad and moved to Frunze, where he worked at the Literary Institute of Kirghizia, simultaneously collecting folklore. From 1931 to 1940, he was a research fellow at the Kirghiz Research Institute of Cultural Construction (KirNIKS), which later became the Institute of Language, Literature and Historical Research.
That same year, Karasayev wrote and published methodological recommendations for collecting samples of folk literature, and also organized the recording of the epic "Manas". He was later invited to Moscow for consultations on the study of this epic.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941, Karasayev received a "reservation" and was not drafted into the army. In 1944, he defended his PhD thesis and wrote several books. That same year, together with the Turkologist K.K. Yudakhin, he compiled the "Russian-Kyrgyz Dictionary".
From 1946, he was a member of the CPSU. From 1951 to 1974, he taught at the Kyrgyz State University, where he held various leadership positions from 1961 to 1974. Karasaev made a huge contribution to the study of the Kyrgyz epic "Manas" and prepared more than 20 dictionaries, among which the "Dictionary of Manas" has special scientific and practical value.
His articles on culture, history, linguistics and folk pedagogy were published in many periodicals. He was married to Aisha Karasaeva for almost 70 years, and they raised three daughters. Karasaev died on January 31, 1998, at the age of 97, from stomach cancer.
Selected works of Kusein Karasaev:
Russian-Kyrgyz dictionary (with I. A. Bat'manov). - Frunze-Kazan, 1938.
Russian-Kyrgyz dictionary (with Ya. Shukurov, K. Yudakhin), - M., 1944.
Spelling dictionary (with Yu. Yanshansin), - Frunze, 1956.
Spelling dictionary of the Kyrgyz language. - Frunze, 1966.
Double words (with A. Karasayeva) - Frunze, 1971.
Semantics of cases in the Kyrgyz language, Labor Institute of Language and Literature, v.1. - Frunze, 1944.
On the system of constructing Kyrgyz songs, "Soviet Kyrgyzstan", No. 1. 1946
Translated the book by O. Sydykov "History of the Kyrgyz Shadmania".
In the village of Tyup, Issyk-Kul region, there is a park named after Kusein Karasaev. On September 29, 2021, a monument to Kusein Karasaev was unveiled at Bishkek State University. Bishkek State University is named after K. Karasaev. On the territory of the museum and memorial complex of N.M. Przhevalsky and K. Karasaev there is a museum, a monument and the grave of the famous lexicographer of Kyrgyzstan Kusein Karasaev.

Authority:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%

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https://tyup.net/page/husein-karasaev