DUSHANBE, 20.08.2024 /NIAT “Khovar”/. As part of the Days of Culture of Kazakhstan in Tajikistan, a bust of Kazakh poet and thinker Abai Kunanbaev will be placed in the Abulqosim Firdavsi Park on August 21.

Tajikistan and Kazakhstan attach special importance to the expansion of cultural and humanitarian ties. The bust of this great humanist will be another step in the rapprochement of peoples.

Abai Kunanbayuly (Kunanbaev) — Kazakh poet, composer, enlightener, thinker, public figure, founder of Kazakh written literature and its first classic, reformer of culture in the spirit of rapprochement with European culture on the basis of enlightened Islam. He was born in the family of the ruler of the Tobykty family Kunanbai Oskenbayev on August 10, 1845. His works have been translated into 116 languages.