A round table dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the outstanding Kazakh educator, poet and scientist Akhmet Baitursynov was held at the Abay Center for Kazakh Language, History and Culture of Yerevan State University with the assistance of the Embassy of Kazakhstan, El.kz cites MFA.
The event was attended by representatives of the Armenian scientific and creative groups, the media, as well as teachers and students of Yerevan State University.
During the round table, the participants discussed the creative heritage of Akhmet Baitursynov, which made a significant contribution to the development of Kazakh culture and the spiritual revival of the Kazakh people. The head of the Department of Turkic Studies at Yerevan State University, Professor Safaryan spoke in detail about the creative and socio-political path of Akhmet Baitursynov and noted his outstanding role in the history of Kazakhstan in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. According to him, "Today, independent Kazakhstan is rightly proud of its great figures of literature and culture, such as Abay, Akhmet Baitursynov, Mukhtar Auezov, Magzhan Zhumabaev and others". As Professor Safaryan noted, modern translations of Akhmet Baitursynov's works in Armenian are in great demand and relevant among Armenian readers.
The well-known poet and translator Levon Blbulyan and Shushan Khachatryan, lecturer at the Department of Turkic Studies at Yerevan State University, read several of Baitursynov's poems in the original and translated into Armenian. Baitursynov's works aroused wide interest among Armenian connoisseurs of literature. Representatives of the Armenian scientific and creative intelligentsia highly appreciated the contribution of Akhmet Baitursynov to the development of world and Kazakh literature and emphasized the spiritual connection between Armenian and Kazakh culture.