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1928 - Born 12 December in the village of Sheker, Talas region, Kirgizia.
1943-1952 - Assistant to the Secretary of the Sheker Village Soviet.
- Attended the Animal Husbandry Division of the Kirghiz Agricultural Institute in Frunze
- Gave up the study of livestock and took up study of literature at the Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow instead.
1952 - Publication of two stories in Russia: The Newspaper Boy Dziuio and Ashim. His first story written in Kirghiz was Ak jann ("White Rain"), which appeared in 1954.
1958-1966 - worked as roving correspondent for Pravda in Kirghizia
1967 - He became a member of the Executive Board of the Soviet Writers Union, and in 1968 he won the Soviet
State Prize for literature for his novel Farewell, Gulsary!
1964-1985 - First Secretary and Chairman of the Cinema Union of Kirghizia
1977-1983 - Was named a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1978.
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