We present 10 facts about Mirzhakip Dulatovich

"Open your eyes, wake up, wake up, get up, and in the dark you have grown younger in vain," we offer 10 facts about Mirzhakip Dulatovich, a language sympathetic to the nation, which was awakened by a carefree shepherd in the boundless steppes and called them to learning-knowledge.
1. Mirzhakip Dulatovich was born on November 25, 1885 in the village of Pervoe, Torgaysky district, Sarykopinsk region.
2. Mirzhakip fell in love with the Kazakh steppe as a soul and thought about its future: he was 25 years old when he wrote a collection of poems called "Wake up, Kazakh!".
3. The book "pathetic Zhamal", written by M. Dulatovich in 1910, is considered the first novel written in the Kazakh language.
4. The newspaper "Kazakh", published in 1913, was founded by Akhmet Baitursynovich, Alikhan Bokeikhanov and Mirzhakip Dulatovich.
5. Many of Mirzhakip's stories were published under pseudonyms. Nicknames that he often used: Azamat, Madiyar, Timiner, Turkish boy and Argyn boy.
6. During the famine of 1921-1922, when the Alash intelligentsia was collecting heat for the starving, Mirzhakip Dulatovich and Zhusupbek Aimautov led this business, collecting 15 thousand heads of cattle in a few months and distributing them to the starving country.
7. Mirzhakip Dulatovich's wife – Gainizhamal Baymuratovna.
8. On October 5, 1935, Mirzhakip Dulatovich died of a serious illness in the Central Infirmary of the Sosnovetsky camp.
9. The film about Mirzhakyp Dulatovich "Mirzhakip. Wake up, Kazakh!" appeared on big screens in 2022.
10. There is the Mirzhakyp Dulatov Kostanay University of Engineering and Economics.