An unexplored work entitled ‘Azir
Olmeimin’ (‘While I’m Alive’) by writer and poet Zhusipbek Aimauytov was found
during research work of the Archive of the President of Kazakhstan. Now the
document will be studied by philologists and literary scholars. It is worth
mentioning that Aimauytov is the founder of genres of drama and novel in the Kazakh
language, scholar, educator, teacher, and psychologist. He was a member of the
Alash party and the People’s Council of the Government of Alashorda. Aimauytov
also translated works by Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky,
Maupassant, Shakespeare, Hugo, Tagore, and other famous world authors.
