10.08.2020 All news

“Day of Abai” will be celebrated annually on August 10

This year the 175th anniversary of the famous Kazakh poet, composer, educator, thinker, public figure, founder of Kazakh written literature and its first classic, cultural reformer is celebrated. In honor of the significant date, a new holiday - “Day of Abai”  appeared in Kazakhstan. It will be celebrated on August 10, the press service of the government of Kazakhstan reports. "The list of holidays in the Republic of Kazakhstan, approved by the said resolution, should be supplemented with the following clause: “Day of Abai”  - August 10," is said in the document.

Abai created about 170 poems, made 56 translations, wrote poems. In the universal human system of Abai, moral education is of paramount importance. Through his labors, he was able to instill these values ​​in more than one generation. A special place among his works is occupied by the prose poem "Kara soz" - "Words of edification" ("kara sozder"). It consists of 45 short parables or philosophical treatises. Problems of history, pedagogy, morality and the rights of ethnic Kazakhs are raised in "Edification". And today, in the age of digitalization and global changes in the processes of socialization of young people, the issues of upbringing and preserving the most important value attitudes of the individual - civic position, identity and patriotism are more relevant than ever.

One of the missions of the Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications named after Gumarbek Daukeev is the formation of our youth's civic responsibility, pride in the history of their state, familiarization with the values of world and national culture, bringing it up in the spirit of mutual respect, ethnocultural tolerance. Therefore, “Day of Abai” is another holiday of the triumph of knowledge, science, labor and high morality.

Happy holiday, dear colleagues and students!