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The classic of Kazakh poetry Mukagali Suleimenovich Makataev was born on February 9, 1931, in the village of Karasaz, Almaty region. From a young age, he was interested in poetry, for which he drew inspiration from the beauty of his native land. All his life Mukagali Makataev sang his native land. "My native land, when I look at your open spaces, my song and I got wings", the outstanding poet wrote in the poem "Thoughts born by native land" about his native village of Karasaz.
His father Suleyman was a simple worker who, at the call of his motherland in 1941, went to the front of the Great Patriotic War, where he died heroically. His mother, Nagiman, was perceived by the poet as the wife of his older brother, which was a consequence of Mukagali’s upbringing as the eldest grandson of his grandparents. After his father left for the war, the 10-year-old Mukagali grew rapidly and became a pillar of the family, a protector of the younger brothers Toktarbai and Korpesh.
Young Mukagali loved reading Russian literature – Pushkin, Sergei Yesenin, Alexander Blok. Foreign classics also attracted the future great poet, he read the works of O. Balzac, D. London, W. Shakespeare.
In 1948, Mukagali graduated from a boarding school in Narynkol. And the following year, he met his future wife - Lashyn Alimzhanova - in the village of Shibut, where Mukagali already worked in the local council, and Lashyn was a school teacher. The young people soon got married.
At the very beginning of his career, Mukagali Makataev worked as a secretary of the village council, in the Komsomol, a literary employee of the district newspaper. From 1954 to 1962, he was an announcer of the Kazakh radio, a teacher, since 1962, for ten years, he worked as the head of the department of the newspapers "Socialist Kazakhstan","Kazakh Adebieti", magazines "Madeniyet zhane Turmys","Zhuldyz". In 1972, he became a literary consultant of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan.
Makataev tried to enter KazGU, the Institute of Foreign Languages. As a result, in 1973 he entered the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. However, he managed to study for only one year – for family reasons, the poet returned home.
The first publications of Mukagali Makataev are known since 1948. His poem "Appationata" was one of the first to appear on the pages of the newspaper "Socialist Kazakhstan", this poem made M. Makatayev famous. Subsequently, the poems "Ilyich" and "Moor" were published, dedicated to Lenin and Marx, then poetry "Greetings, friends", "My sweetheart", "My heart", "Swans do not sleep", "Warmth of life", "Poem of life," "River of life", "Heartbeat", "Sholpan", "Mozart's Requiem".
During his creative life, Mukagali Makataev wrote more than a thousand poems, many of which are heard in popular Kazakh songs. Of course, one of the most famous and beloved among the people became "Saryjaıláý". The words of this song became a testament to the poet's great love for his native land and nature.
The works of M. Makataev are a profound world of his experiences. In each poem, between the lines, you can read his attempt to realize his place in life, a philosophical reflection on being, on the future. This is especially clear in his creation "My thirty-fifth spring".
The poet's huge heart, full of creativity and love for life, began to fail very early. In March 1975, Mukagali Makataev wrote in a poem "Remember me" as if he were feeling his early passing away:
"...When in sad solitude you go
Filled with sorrow in the forest,
Think that I am in this world,
Do not believe the words that I am not...".
Exactly one year later, on March 27, 1976, the heart of the brightest Kazakh poet stopped. Mukagali Makataev was only 45 years old. Shortly before his death, the poet wrote his famous poem "Mozart's Requiem".
Also known personal diaries of the poet – the last entry he left exactly a month before his death: "My poetry, if I die, you live."
Unfortunately, Mukagali Makataev became very famous after his death. The poet's legacy, his poems about love, about the homeland today sound in the favorite songs of Kazakhstanis and are pearls in the literary treasury of the Kazakh people.
The book collection of the Library of Elbasy houses more than 50 publications – this is the creative legacy of M. Makataev, as well as works dedicated to his life and work. Among them, "Básіre: Óleńder, tolǵaýlar, dastandar" (compiled by: S. Dautov, 1981), the multi-volume "Poems" (compiled by: L. Alimzhanova, S. Dautov, 1982), "Amanat: Jyr kіtaby" (compiled by A. Altai, 2002), "Life is a river: Poems" (2005), "Poems" (2009), "Ray of eternity" (A. Kenshilikuly, 2011), "Selected works" (2011), "Jyr kіtaby" (compiled by: B. Aidarova, K. Botbai, 2012), the fifth volume of the ten-volume book "Jyr marjany" (compiled by: M. Kulkenov, G. Mukysheva, 2014), "Eternal legacy: research" (K. Alimkulov, 2015), " Mukagali Makataev. Traditions and innovations in Kazakh poetry" (B. Begmanova, 2015), "Makatayev Mukagali: Kaskyr zhurek uldarym er zhetedi" (compiled by: R. Seisenbaev, 2017), as well as the encyclopedia "Mukagali Makataev" (2016), which includes previously unpublished works of M. Makataev, little-known poems, songs and biographical information about the poet.