Meeting of friends. From left to right: Kanysh Satpayev – geologist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences; Mukhtar Auezov – classic writer; Zhumabek Tashenov – Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

Kanysh Satpayev as part of the delegation of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR during a visit to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). London, 1947 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

Kanysh Satpayev during the visit of Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, to the Museum of Geology. To his left is Dinmukhamed Kunaev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan. Almaty, 1961 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

Kanysh Satpayev with the “Stone of Timur”. 1935 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

Kanysh Satpayev with a group of Kazakh scientists-geologists by a map of the Irtysh–Karaganda canal. Almaty / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

Kanysh Satpayev with his family, holding a dombra. Almaty, 1950 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

Kanysh Satpayev with his wife Taisia during a stay at a sanatorium. Essentuki, 1949 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan