(1872, village No. 5 of Shubarsky volost of Kustanaysky uyezd, now Urnek village of Karabalyksky district of Kostanay region - 1929) - one of the prominent public figures of the Kazakh people of the early twentieth century, poet, educator, journalist, teacher. He studied at a madrasa in Troitsk, in 1891 he graduated from the 2nd grade Russian-Tatar school in Kostanay. Teaching work contributed to Seralin's closer acquaintance with the life of the people and his understanding of the causes of social injustice prevailing in society. During these years, he created magnificent poems "Topzhargan" and "Gulhashima", in which he reflects the Kazakh way of life. The main merit of Seralin as a poet is connected with the establishment of the genre of a story poem in Kazakh literature. In 1911-1915, M. Seralin published the first magazine in the Kazakh language "Aikap", which played an important role in the development of Kazakh written literature. Working in the magazine "Aikap", M. Seralin published more than forty journalistic articles and essays, continued the traditions of the Kazakh enlightenment democrats, primarily Ibrai Altynsarin.
From 1923 to 1926 M. Seralin worked as the editor of the newspaper "Ауыл". He is the founder of the modern republican newspaper "Egemen Kazakhstan". He translated into Kazakh the poem "Rustem and Sukhrab" from a free translation by V. A. Zhukovsky, from the epic "Shahnameh" by Firdousi (1911), the story "Wormwood" by A. S. Sorokin
