They shaped culture, science and society — the remarkable and the overlooked, the brilliant and the forgotten, all those who transformed the world.
How Kazakhstan Fell in Love with Football and Made It Its Own
How a Camel-Herding, ‘Shaggy-Haired’ Youth Rose to Become a Great Khan
The Long Journey from Myth to Reality
Akhmet Jubanov and the Rise of Kazakh Professional Music
How the World Denied Women Their Rights — and What Came of It
From Medieval Folk Hero to Soviet Screen Icon
How the canonical image of the poet was created
Politics, Ethnography, and a Kazakh Scholar’s Uneasy Legacy
The Actor Who Became the Face of an Era
Guess what this thing was used for.
Did the Kazakh khanzada serve as an instrument of the empire?
Forgotten missions and lost sovereignty
How One Man Preserved His Humanity in the Darkest of Times