There in the capital of Belarus Minsk took place the presentation of the tetra novel By Mukhtar Auezov “The way of Abai” in the new translation in the Russian language. The presentation was organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Belarus. There at the presentation spoke the Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the RK to Belarus A.Smirnov, the chairman of the Writers’Union of Belarus N.Cherginets, the son of the writer, President of the Foundation after Mukhtar Auezov M.Auezov, the author of the new translation, the well-known Russian writer A.Kim, the Kazakhstani poetess and journalist L.Shashkova and others.
In the secondary school #143 which is named after the great Kazakh writer there opened an exposition dedicated to the life and creative activity of Mukhtar Auezov. Through the efforts of the pupils and teachers of the school there was collected the richest material on the life and creative activity of Mukhtar Auezov, the history and everyday life of the Kazakh people, the links of modern Kazakhstan and Belarus. The guests from Kazakhstan participated in the opening of the exposition and laid flowers to the bas-relief of the writer. Murat Auezov handed over to the school museum the books, photographs, the film narrating about the life and creative activity of the great Kazakh writer. While making a speech before the workers of the school, Murat Auezov noted: “Here in Kazakhstan the image of the people of Belarus is always accepted very warmly. And this is unusually significant that here in Minsk there is a school named after Mukhtar Auezov, that there are people here who remember him and there is the basis which will grow and preserve the memory about Mukhtar Auezov”. Great assistance is rendered to the activity of the school museum and its links with Kazakhstan by the Honorary consul of the RK in Belarus Shokhanov Shermen Anatolyevich.