Biography of Abai
Abai's family

Abai's poems

Abay's teachings

The numbers speak

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What is the date and place of birth of the great Abai?

Abay Kunanbaev (1845-1904). Abay was born in 1845 at the bottom of the Chingiz Mountain in the today's Abai district (former Karkaraly) located in Eastern Kazakhstan region (formerly, the Semipalatinsk region).

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Who is Abai?

Writer, poet, composer

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Continue the poem:

Сұр бұлт,түсі суық қаптайды аспан,
Күз болып дымқыл тұман жерді басқан.

Білмеймін тойғаны ма,тоңғаны ма

Жылқы ойнап,бие қашқан,тай жарысқан

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Continue the thought: Адам баласының ең жаманы - ...


a man without aspirations

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How many poems does Abay have? (name them)

There are 3 poems. "Iskender", "Azim's story", "Masgut".

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What tribe was Abai from?

Tobykty (Тобықты)

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Who is Makish?

sister-in-law

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What's his first poem?

Summer

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Name the components of Abai's teachings.

Mind, will, heart Ақыл, қайрат, жүрек

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In what year was the 1st volume of the novel Abay Zholy written?

1942

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What languages did Abai know?

Kazakh, Arabic, Russian, Persian, Chagatai

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Who is Abai's mother?

Ulzhan

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What question does the poet raise in the poem «Жігіттер, ойын арзан, күлкі қымбат»

question of friendship

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Name Abai's poems

Masgut, Iskander, The Tale of Azim

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The years of Kunanbai's life.

1804-1886

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The works of which Russian poets did Abai translate?

A.S. Pushkin, I.A. Krylov, M.Yu. Lermontov

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Who educated him?

Grandmother Zere

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When did he start to write poems?

Twelve years

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Who is the first Abai scholar to write an obituary (kazanama) of “Abai (Ibrahim) Kunanbaev”?


Alikhan Bokeikhanov


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How many poems does Abai have?

176

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In what years did Abai study at the Akhmet-Riza madrasah?


1855-1858 

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Who is Amir?

Qudaiberdy’s son

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What's his favourite book?

The book of words

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In what year was the first collection “Poems of the Kazakh poet Ibrahim” published Kunanbaev"?

In 1909

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In what year was the poem "Сегіз аяқ" written?

in 1889