International scientific conference - a meeting place for philologists from different countries

On May 20, 2021, at Abai KazNPU hosted the opening of the International Scientific and Theoretical Conference «Problems of Poetics and Poetry IX» dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the 90th anniversary of the outstanding Kazakh poet Mukagali Makatayev.

More than one hundred Kazakh scientists and scientists from Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Poland, Estonia and the United States have applied for participation. Despite the online format, the conference is held in the good traditions of the scientific school of one of the oldest universities in Kazakhstan: the first plenary session, work in separate 5 sections and the final plenary session on the second day of work.

In the new conditions of restrictive measures in connection with the pandemic, such large-scale events provide an opportunity to see and understand how close our scientific ideas, our common goals and objectives in the world community, our values and ideals are.

Professor Sayabek Kuanyshbekovich Sakhiev, Vice-Rector for Research and Digitalization, greeted the conference participants. The director of the public international fund Bakytkul Aydarova, director of the M. Makatayev museum in the poet`s homeland in Karasaz, Erlik Mukhamedzhanuly, spoke to a large audience of scientists.

The moderator of the plenary session was the head of the department of Russian language and literature of Abai KazNPU, a well-known researcher of M. Makatayev`s creativity, professor Saule Abisheva. Eight reports were read in Kazakh and Russian languages, dedicated to the creativity and peculiarities of the poetic picture of the world of the Kazakh lyric poet of the second half of the twentieth century. Toleubek Zaysanbayev not only read an interesting lecture on the phonetic structure of M. Makatayev`s poetry, but also, accompanying himself on a dombra, sang a song to the words of Mukagali «Sabi bolgym keledi».

The successful plenary session set the tone for the subsequent work of the entire conference. The conference participants, expressing their gratitude to all the speakers who spoke, continued their communication at the section readings. Famous philologists Oleg Fedotov, Yuri Orlitsky, Evgeny Kazartsev (Russia, Moscow), Galina Nefagina (Poland), Aliya Kulumbetova, Manat Mussatayeva, Lyudmila Safronova (Kazakhstan) and many others shared their scientific discoveries with young participants of the conference, undergraduates and doctoral students .

The information-rich first day of the conference made it possible to overcome the borders, and the anniversary of Kazakhstan and M. Makatayev brought together philologists of the world under the roof of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University.

On May 21, 2021, the final plenary session of the conference was held, at which the results of the work of this authoritative scientific forum were summed up. All participants will receive certificates and a collection of conference materials.

The conference participants got acquainted with the message of Maxim Ponomarenko, coordinator of the Abai Center for Kazakh Science and Culture, opened in 2019 at the Pomor Academy in Slupsk (Poland) at the initiative of the Department of Russian Language and Literature. M. Ponomarenko, a graduate of bachelor`s and master`s degrees of our university, and now a doctoral student of the Pomor Academy, spoke about the multifaceted work of the Abai Center as a translator of culture and science of Kazakhstan in Poland.

In the «Free Microphone» section, the conference participants expressed warm words of gratitude to the organizers of this scientific meeting and expressed confidence that the fruitful cooperation of scientists from different countries would continue.