Kimal Akishev

Soviet and Kazakh archaeologist, historian

PersonDied aged 79humanQ6409727

Also known as Kemel Aqyşev

Born: May 23, 1924
, May 24, 1924
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Died: August 10, 2003
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Birthplace: Bayanaul
Place of death: Almaty
Citizenship: Soviet Union
, Kazakhstan
Occupation: scientist
Education: Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Employer: Margulan Institute of Archaeology
, L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University

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Kimal Akishev was a Kazakhstani scientist, archeologist, and historian. Akishev was a fifth generation descendant of the Argyn tribe head Chorman-bi. His parents were Abu Ali, or Akysh, and Gaziza Chorman. He was the youngest son of three sons and four daughters in the family, which lived in the South Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan. In accordance with a Turkic tradition, he was brought up by his grandfather Aujan Chormanov in the Keregetas mountains. In the 1930s both of his parents and three of his sisters died of starvation. He and his brothers were saved by his maternal uncle Kanysh Satpaev, and he grew up as Kimal Satpaev. Before graduation from a high school in Alma-Ata, he informally took the last name Akishev in memory of his father; in 1942 it became his official name. The next year he was drafted into the army, and in 1944 Akishev was badly wounded in his right arm, demobilized for disability, and returned to Alma-Ata. His arm was disabled for life.

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Field of work: archaeology
Awards: Order of the Badge of Honour
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Order of Parasat
Medal "For Battle Merit"
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Academic degree: Doctor of Historical Sciences
Participated in conflict: Eastern Front
Doctoral student: Karl Baypakov
Sex or gender: male
Name in native language: Кемел Ақышев

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