People on Kazakhstan's street signs

Abai Qunanbaiuly

68 Abai Qūnanbaiūly was a Kazakh poet, composer and Hanafi Maturidi theologian philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened Islam.

Bauyrzhan Momyshuly

32 Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, also spelled Baurjan Momish-Uli was a Kazakh-Soviet military officer and author, posthumously awarded with the titles Hero of the Soviet Union and People's Hero of Kazakhstan.

Yuri Gagarin

32 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first person to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin...

Vladimir Lenin

27 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death...

Aliya Moldagulova

27 Aliya Nurmukhambetovna Moldagulova was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II who killed over 30 Nazi soldiers. After dying of wounds sustained in battle on 14 January 1944, she was...

Kanysh Satbayev

26 Kanysh Imantayuli Satbayev was a Kazakh professor, geologist and one of the founders of Soviet metallogeny and the principal advocate and first president of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences.

Saken Seifullin

22 Saken Seifullin was a pioneer of modern Kazakh literature, poet, writer, and a national activist. He was the founder and the first head of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan. Additionally, he notably...

Alexander Pushkin

22 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian...

Амангельды Иманов

21 Амангельды́ Удербайулы́ Има́нов — один из лидеров Среднеазиатского восстания 1916 года против имперских властей, участник установления Советской власти в Казахстане, участник гражданской войны, член...

Айтеке-би

21 Айтеке-би Байбекулы, подлинное имя Айтык — казахский бий, оратор. Внес большой вклад в объединение казахского народа.

Mukhtar Auezov

20 Mukhtar Omarkhanuli Auezov was a Kazakh writer, a social activist, a Doctor of Philology, and an honored academician of the Soviet Union (1946).

Zhambyl Zhabayuly

20 Jambyl Jabaiūly was a Soviet and Qazaq aqyn.                                                       

Shoqan Walikhanov

18 Shokan Shyngysuly Walikhanov was a Kazakh scholar, ethnographer, historian and participant in the Great Game. His reputation "as the father of modern Kazakh history and ethnography" is recorded in...

Ablai Khan

18 Wāli-ūllah Abū'l-Mansūr Khan, better known as Abylai Khan or Ablai Khan was Khan of the Middle Jüz and was the last independent Kazakh Khan of the Kazakh Khanate before the Khanate was absorbed into...

Mikhail Lermontov

18 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and...

Turar Ryskulov

17 Turar Ryskululy Ryskulov was a Soviet politician, the chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Töle Biy

16 Töle Biy Älibekūly, known mononymously as Töle Biy, was the head biy of the Kazakh senior juz, as well as an author, orator, poet, politician and a public figure. He was born in Jaysan in what is now...

Al-Farabi

16 Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi, known in the Latin West as Alpharabius, was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist. He has been designated as "Father of Islamic Neoplatonism", and the "Founder...

Nikolai Gogol

14 Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.

Manshuk Mametova

14 Manshuk Zhiengalikyzy Mametova was a machine gunner of the 100th Rifle Brigade in the 21st Guards Rifle Division of the 3rd Shock Army on the Kalinin Front during the Second World War. She became the...

Ahmet Baitursynuly

13 Ahmet Baitursynuly was a Kazakh intellectual who worked in the fields of politics, poetry, linguistics, and education.

Казыбек-би

13 Казыбек «Каз Дауысты» Кельдибекулы — великий казахский бий, государственный, политический и общественный деятель великий оратор, и посол.

Ybyrai Altynsarin

13 Ybyrai Altynsarin was a major figure in pre-Soviet Kazakh history. He was the most prominent Kazakh educator of the 19th century, at the period of Russian colonization of and cultural influence in...

Mikhail Lomonosov

13 Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus...

Ivan Panfilov

12 Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov was a Soviet general and a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union, known for his command of the 316th Rifle Division during the defense of Moscow at the Second World War.

Кабанбай-батыр

12 Кара́кере́й Кабанба́й-баты́р — казахский батыр, полководец казахско-джунгарской войны.             

Dinmukhamed Kunaev

11 Dınmūhammed Ahmetūly Qonaev was a Soviet communist politician who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR.

Mikhail Frunze

11 Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist.

Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev

11 Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly was a Kazakh composer, instrumentalist, and folk artist. He influenced Kazakh musical culture. He was born in 1823 in the Bukey Horde. He is buried in the Astrakhan region of...

Gherman Titov

11 Gherman Stepanovich Titov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. He was the...

Valery Chkalov

10 Valery Pavlovich Chkalov was a Russian and Soviet test pilot awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1936).

Anton Chekhov

10 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best...

Vladimir Mayakovsky

10 Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the...

Taras Shevchenko

9 Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He wrote poetry in Ukrainian and prose in Russian.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

9 Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev is a Kazakh politician who served as the first president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. He also held the special title of Elbasy from 2010 to 2022 and chairman of the...

Magzhan Zhumabayev

9 Mağjan Jūmabaev was a Kazakh poet and writer who revolutionized the Kazakh language.               

Nikolay Nekrasov

9 Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the...

Qairat Rysqulbekov

9 Qairat Noğaibaiūly Rysqūlbekov was a participant in the Jeltoqsan riot of 1986 that took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He later died in mysterious circumstances while held by the authorities. He was...

Ivan Pavlov

8 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs. Pavlov also conducted...

Mirjaqip Dulatuli

8 Mirjaqyp Dulatuly, also known as Mir Yakub Dulatov, was a Kazakh poet, writer and one of leaders of Kazakh nationalist Alash Orda government. He also is known to have used the pen names Madiyar and...

Vasily Chapayev

8 Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev was a Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War.

Alexander Ostrovsky

7 Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 original plays, Ostrovsky "almost...

Ivan Michurin (biologist)

7 Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union...

Ivan Krylov

7 Ivan Andreyevich Krylov is Russia's best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors. Formerly a dramatist and journalist, he only discovered his true genre at the age of...

Lidiya Seifullina

7 Lidiya Nikolaevna Seifullina was a Soviet journalist, playwright, novelist, and short story writer. Her short story "Virineia" serves as the basis for an opera by Sergei Slonimsky.

Mikhail Kalinin

7 Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary. He served as head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later of the Soviet Union...

Бейімбет Жармағамбетұлы Майлин

7 Бейімбет Жармағамбетұлы Майлы — қазақтың көрнекті жазушысы, ақыны, драмашысы, қазақ әдебиетін қалыптастырушылардың бірі.

Leo Tolstoy

6 Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

6 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature,...

Alexander Suvorov

6 Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy was a Russian general and military theorist in the service of the Russian Empire.

Тохтаров, Тулеген

6 Тулеген Тохтаров — участник Великой Отечественной войны, автоматчик 23-го гвардейского стрелкового полка 8-й гвардейской ордена Ленина Краснознамённой стрелковой дивизии имени генерал-майора...

Sergei Kirov

5 Sergei Mironovich Kirov was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian...

Dmitri Mendeleev

5 Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the periodic law not only to correct the...

Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat

3 Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat Beg was a Chagatai Turco-Mongol military general, governor of Kashmir, and a historian. He was a Mughal Dughlat prince who wrote in both Chaghatai and Persian languages....