Education provides people with unlimited possibilities. Human’s brain does wonders. However the greatest minds are able to achieve fabulous accomplishments. Alkey Margulan (1904-1985) was one of those great people. He was the Doctor of Philology (1945), member of the Academy of Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1958), Professor (1960), Honoured Scientist of Kazakh Soviet Republic (1961), the founder of Kazakh Archaeological School, the prominent scientist in the following scientific fields: anthropology, oriental studies, history, literature, arts.
He explored the late bronze era settlement, which was a Begazy-Dandybayev cultural oasis in the Central Kazakhstan. Alkey Margulan was studying the life of Shokan Valikhanov, the prominent educator and traveler, for many years. He wrote 5 volume work about the famous scientist.
The Institute of Archaeology of Kazakhstan rightly bears the name of Alkey. The institute is situated in the Academy of Science on 28, Shevchenko Street. The monument to the famous archaeologist was built near the Academy on October 14, 2010. The author of the project is architect Nurlan Dalabay. The heavy monument portrays the famous scientist in very accurate details. The figure of Alkey Margulan is sitting, and holding a book in his right hand, he fixed his look into the distance as if he wants to see the future of Kazakh science.
