Biography

Striving for knowledge is a characteristic feature of the Kyrgyz people. My grandfather graduated from the madrassa in Ufra in 1911 and my grandmother took part in the opening of medical centres and kindergartens. She was a female activist, chairperson of a kolkhoz until the end of the Great Patriotic War, during which two of her sons died. My parents graduated from the Faculty of History of the Kyrgyz National University and worked as teachers, starting at pedagogical school and then at higher educational institutions. Because of war, my father did not go to Moscow (where students were sent for academic success) for a postgraduate program, but he was still fond of science and he defended his candidate’s dissertation and became an assistant professor. My uncle was among one of the founders of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic. He was one of the first academicians, professors and doctors.