120th Anniversary of the Birth of Archaeologist Alkey Margulan

Alkey Margulan was the founder of the Kazakhstani school of archaeology and an outstanding figure in many fields of science: ethnography, history, oriental studies, literary studies, and art history. Doctor of Philological Sciences, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, professor. He made a great contribution to the study of the history and literature of the Kazakh people. He wrote dozens of books, more than three hundred scientific studies, and more than a hundred encyclopedic articles devoted to history, archaeology, ethnography, literature, and art.