Kanysh Imantayuli Satbayev (11 April 1899 – 31 January 1964) was a Kazakh professor, geologist and one of the founders of Soviet metallogeny (specifically the Kazakhstani school) and the principal advocate and first president of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences. He was a doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1942), Professor (1950), Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1946), member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946), and the first president of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR. He is famous as the geologist who discovered the Ulutau-Dzhezkazgan copper deposit that was, at the time, amongst the largest copper reserves discovered.
Biography Satbayev was born in what is today Bayanaul District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan; at the time it was in the Pavlodar district of the Semipalatinsk Region of the Kazakh SSR. Satbayev's interest in geology was sparked during his childhood by Tomsk geologist Mikhail Usov. He was the youngest child and had a brother and sister. From 1909 to 1911, he studied at the Satpayev Kanysh aul school. In 1911 he entered the Russian-Kazakh school in the city of Pavlodar, where he graduated in 1914 with honors. After graduating from college, Satbayev, despite the objections of his father Imantai, went to study at the teachers' seminary in Semipalatinsk, where he had tuberculosis-related health problems. Nevertheless, he received a diploma from the seminary in 1918, passing an external examination. Satbayev intended to continue his studies to obtain higher education, but people with a certificate from the seminary were accepted in high schools only if they passed the exam in mathematics and one foreign language. The next year and a half Satbayev was preparing for admission to the Tomsk Technological Institute (now Tomsk Polytechnic University). In parallel with his studies, Satbayev worked as a teacher of natural science, teaching two-year courses in Semipalatinsk. The work and training had to be postponed due to the worsening of his tuberculosis. For almost a year Satpayev stayed in his native village, taking treatment and recuperating. It was not believed that he'd survive. In 1920, Satbayev was appointed the first chairman in Bayanaul Kazkultprosveta (Department for the cultural and educational work among the working people), created with the strengthening of the Soviet power. At the same time by the decision of the Revolutionary Committee of Pavlodar, he was appointed a national judge of the 10th section of Bayanaul area. At the beginning of 1921, there was a meeting with Satbayev geologist Mikhail Usov, who arrived to Bayanaul for some kumis treatment. Usov managed to interest Satbayev in geology, and in the same year, Satbayev voluntarily left his post of national judges, being admitted to the Tomsk Technological Institute. In the beginning of 1922, the tuberculosis had escalated again, and Satbayev had to leave school and go back to the village. Not to be outdone by his fellow students, Satbayev studied from home. Usov helped him, often coming to Bayanaul for treatment. While being treated in Bayanaul, Kanysh Satbayev began compiling a textbook on algebra for the Kazakh schools, from which he graduated in 1924. This tutorial was the first school textbook on algebra in the Kazakh language. After a year and a half Satbayev's health improved, and he returned to his studies at the Institute, successfully graduating in 1926. Satbayev returned to Kazakhstan (the Kazakh SSR at the time) and became the first qualified ethnically Kazakh mining engineer and geologist. He died in Moscow in 1964, and was buried in Almaty.
Family Satbayev's father, Imantai Satbayev, was a bey (often wealthy head of a village). He had a wife Nurum, with whom he lived for more than 25 years. They had one daughter who died in infancy. This was the reason for their separation. The second wife of Imantai was called Alim. They had three children, a daughter Kaziza and two sons: Bokesh (Gaziz) and Kanysh. In 1920, Kanysh Satbayev married Sharipa, and they had two daughters, Khanisa and Shamshiyabanu, and a son, Mailybai, who died at 16 years old. Later, having left Sharipa, Satpayev married Taisiya Alekseyevna Satpayeva (née Koshkina). They had two daughters: Maria and Meiz.
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