12 Facts About Abai Qunanbaiuly

Abai Qunanbaiuly was a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened Islam.

Abai Qunanbaiuly was the son of Qunanbai and Uljan, his father's second wife.

Abai Qunanbaiuly's father was wealthy enough to send Abai to a Russian secondary school in Semipalatinsk.

Abai Qunanbaiuly steeped himself in the cultural and philosophical history of these newly opened geographies.

Contemporary Kazakh images of Abai Qunanbaiuly generally depict him in full traditional dress holding a dombra.

Kazakh National Pedagogical University is named after Abai Qunanbaiuly, so is one of the main avenues in the city of Almaty.

Abai Qunanbaiuly is featured on postal stamps of Kazakhstan, Soviet Union, and India.

The Kazakh city of Abay and the Abai Qunanbaiuly Region are named after him.

Abai Qunanbaiuly is featured on the Kazakhstani Tenge, a subway station in Almaty is named after him, along with a street, a square, a theater, and many schools.

Abai Qunanbaiuly is the subject of two novels and an opera by Mukhtar Auezov, another Kazakhstani writer.

On 21 March 2023, a monument to Abai Qunanbaiuly Kunanbayev was unveiled in Taldykorgan.

Abai Qunanbaiuly translated into Kazakh the works of Russian and European authors, mostly for the first time.