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April 12 is the day of science in our country. The holiday was established by the decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 164 dated October 20, 2011. It is no coincidence that on this day representatives of the scientific community of Kazakhstan celebrate their professional holiday – the date of birth of Kanysh Satpayev.
April 12, 1899 in Pavlodar district of Semipalatinsk oblast (now the village of Musa Shormanov of Bayanaul district, Pavlodar region) was born a future scientist-geologist, one of the founders of Soviet metalliferous science, the founder of Kazakhstan school of metallogeny, the organizer and the first President of the Academy of Sciences of KazSSR, laureate of Lenin and state prizes of the USSR and the Kazakh SSR - the largest thinker and naturalist of his time Kanysh Imantaevich Satpaev.
The boy was named Gabdul-Gani. His mother affectionately called him Gani, Ganysh. Soon everyone began to call him Kanysh.
Kanysh Satpayev received his initial education from a mullah, and then attended the first Kazakh-Russian school in the district for two years. In 1911, Kanysh entered the Pavlodar Russian-Kazakh school. In three years, he perfectly mastered the four-year program, and then entered the Semipalatinsk teachers' Seminary. His health began to deteriorate, so he took his diploma exams externally. From 1920 to 1921, he spent in his native land, where he returned for koumiss therapy for acute tuberculosis. At this time, Kanysh Satpayev began writing the first textbook on algebra for Kazakh schools. He completed work on it in 1924.
It is known that his labor biography began with the post of people's judge. It is less known that the young Satpayev, for example, organized an amateur theater in the same years, in which he staged the play "Enlik-Kebek", written by a senior fellow from the teachers' Seminary, Mukhtar Auezov.
At the beginning of 1921, Satpayev's fate was forever determined by a chance meeting. In his native Bayanaul, the young judge met the geologist Mikhail Antonovich Usov, who came from Tomsk to treat lungs. The Professor got the 22-year-old young man interested with stories about geology that in the fall of the same year, he gave up his law practice and entered the Institute of Technology in Tomsk. The venerable scientist takes the most active part in the fate of the young Kazakh, and not only as a teacher, Satpayev during his studies did not live in a hostel, but in a room that was provided to him in his apartment by M. A. Usov.
At the beginning of 1922, due to acute tuberculosis, the young man returned to his village. But Kanysh did not want to interrupt his studies and decided to take a University course at home. In this, he was helped by Usov, who often came to Bayanaul. In 1926, K. I. Satpayev successfully graduated from the Tomsk Technological Institute and, becoming the first Kazakh with a diploma of mining engineer-geologist, was sent to the Central Council of the national economy. K.I. Satpayev headed the geological department of the Atbastsvetmet trust. He had the serious task of carrying out the first stationary exploration work on systematically identifying mineral reserves in Zhezkazgan-Ulytau district. Unlike the British and the Geological Committee of the SNK, which estimated the reserves of Zhezkazgan as modest, Satpayev was convinced of the huge reserves of ores in this region. In 1932, K. I. Satpayev published the first scientific monograph "Dzhezkazgan copper-ore district and its mineral resources. By that time, it was found that in the ores of Zhezkazgan more than 2 million tons of copper, and it was not 60 thousand tons, as previously estimated. This was proof of K. I. Satpayev's scientific foresight. In 1934, at the session of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, K. I. Satpayev made a report "Copper, coal, iron, manganese ores and other minerals of the Dzhezkazgan-Ulutau district", in which he comprehensively justified the rich prospects of the Zhezkazgan deposit and the entire district. By 1937, proven copper reserves allowed us to call Zhezkazgan the largest copper deposit in the world and justify the construction of a mining enterprise here. On February 13, 1938, the order of the people's Commissariat of industry on the construction of the Zhezkazgan mining and metallurgical combine was issued.
In 1941, K. I. Satpayev was appointed Director of the Geological Institute of the Kazakh branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and a year later he became the head of this division – the future Academy of Sciences of the Republic.
In the autumn of 1943, K. I. Satpayev was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences for his services to the development of science and great scientific achievements. During these years, he paid special attention to the design and construction of Kazakhstan's Magnitogorsk, Balkhash and Atasuysky mining plants. In June 1946, K. I. Satpayev was elected the first President of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan. In October of the same year, he was elected a full academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. And in the same year, Satpayev was elected a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
K. I. Satpayev combined great organizational activity in science management and concern for the industrial development of Kazakhstan by providing practical assistance to industrial complexes. He personally led a comprehensive study of the natural resources of the Mangyshlak Peninsula, research of new deposits of coal, oil, gas, iron and steel ores, and actively supported the construction of the Irtysh-Karaganda canal. On his initiative, visiting sessions of the Academy of Sciences were held in the largest industrial regions of the Republic. New academic institutes were opened: nuclear physics, mathematics and mechanics, hydrogeology and hydrophysics, the chemistry of oil and natural salts, chemical and metallurgical, mining and metallurgical, ichthyology and fisheries, experimental biology, Economics, philosophy and law, literature and art, linguistics. Encyclopedic education allowed the President to take a personal part in the creation of these centers of great science. Mukhtar Auezov said: "The great feature of Kanysh was that he could talk to a chemist, a biologist, a physicist, a doctor, and a historian and philologist in their scientific language."
The range of interests of academician K. I. Satpayev was extremely wide and went beyond the natural sciences. He was a great expert on Kazakh history, literature, culture, ethnography, music and folklore. His archaeological research on the territory of Central Kazakhstan, works on pedagogy and literature are well known. He was the first to appreciate the significance of M. Auezov's novel "The path of Abai", handed over 25 folk songs to the collector of folklore A.Zatayevich, and left many works about theater, art, culture, and youth education.
However, it should be emphasized that K. I. Satpayev was and still is the largest scientist in the field of geological science. He created and headed the school of metallogeny in Kazakhstan. The complex approach of formation metallogenic analysis developed by him became fundamental for geological science and practice. The head of all science of Kazakhstan was deservedly recognized first of all as the head of the Kazakhstan school of geologists, one of the founders of the science of metallogeny. He left behind a large group of scientists, trained a whole school of metallogenist of Kazakhstan. In 1958, a group of Kazakh geologists led by academician K. I. Satpayev was awarded the Lenin prize for developing the methodological basis and making forecast metallogenic maps of Central Kazakhstan, which had no analog in the world geological practice. This work showed the role of Kazakh scientists and the school of K. I. Satpayev around the world.
Academician K. I. Satpayev gave a lot of effort and energy to the formation and development of international relations in Kazakhstan, strengthening and deepening the cooperation of Kazakh scientists with scientists from Russia, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan. The recognition of K. I. Satpayev's achievements in this field became his election as a member of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. An outstanding scientist of the country, he presented Kazakhstan's science abroad. So, in 1947, as part of the delegation of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he visited England, where he honorably represented the country's scientists. In 1958, K. I. Satpayev as part of a representative delegation visited China, where he took part in the work of the geological conference of the People’s Republic of China. He was awarded four Orders of Lenin and the order of the Great Patriotic war.
Academician K. I. Satpayev died on January 31, 1964. These days academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR A. Margulan wrote about it: "The life of this remarkable man, the light of science and reason, the friend and comrade of many, was cut short early. He was the pride of his people, lived and worked for their prosperity. Serving the people, he considered the highest ideal of his life...".
The name of academician Satpayev bears the city in the Karaganda region, Institute of Geological Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, the Zhezkazgan mining and smelting plant, the minor planet in the constellation of the Taurus, mineral, a glacier and mountain top of the Dzungarian Ala Tau, a variety of flowers, streets and schools in cities and towns of the Republic of Kazakhstan. At present, a prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after him for outstanding achievements in the field of natural sciences has been established, Satpayev International Fund was created.
The book of reviews of the Kanysh Satpayev memorial Museum in Bayanaul carefully preserves the entry: "Kanysh Satpayev is a great son of his people, a brilliant scientist, and a famous engineer. For different generations, Kaneke's life path is an example of how to love your homeland, how to serve it selflessly." These words belong to the First President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The book collections of the Library of Elbassy contain many books devoted to the biography, scientific and labor path of K. I. Satpayev: "Satpayev" by M. Sarsekeyev (1989)," Satpayev's planet" by M. Sarsekey (2002), "The light of the hearth" by V. Satpayev (1999), "Academician K. I. Satpayeva and his contemporaries" by G. Batyrbekov (1999), "Academician K. I. Satpayeva. To the 110th anniversary of the birth" by G. Bekzhanov (2010), "Phenomenon: novel-essay" by M. Sarseke (2009)," Kanysh Satpayev: Onegeli Omir. Special issue" ed. by G. Mutanov (2016), "Kanysh Imantayevich Satpayev" by Satpayeva (2003), "Kanysh Satpayev – the son of the Kazakh Land" by T. Alzhanov and M. Satpayeva (2002), etc.