Tursynbaev B.

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Tursynbaev Badel (1905-1967) – writer, educator

He was born in the Batpakty village of Kurchum district of East Kazakhstan oblast. He worked as a secretary of the Council of Agriculture, a primary school teacher, in the edition of the Semipalatinsk regional newspaper «Ekpendi», director and teacher in the Bayserken Secondary School in Almaty region.
In 1957 he graduated from Kazakh Pedagogical Institute named after Abai. More than 30 years of his work devoted to children's literature. He is an author of the poem «Batyr Bazar» (1942), a collection of poems «Merry childhood» (1955), a collection of short stories «The Fox and the Shepherd» (1959), «What is more» (1961), story «A guy from our village» (1962), «Rural teacher» and others.