Kaztugan Zhyrau

Kaztugan Süyinichuly was born, according to Sputnik Kazakhstan, near Krasny Yar, in what is now the Astrakhan region, between the Bozan and Aktuba rivers, in an influential nomadic clan; his father was called Süyinich. A jyrau of the countryside, a war leader and fighter, he was nicknamed Qarğa boïly. The sources place him in the fifteenth century, sometimes the seventeenth, and credit him with a life of nearly eighty years; in the second half of the fifteenth century, he is said to have led his people away from the Edil to join the Kazakh state.

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• PoetryАлаң да алаң, алаң жұртKaztugan Zhyrau · 1450not translated into EnglishLiterature