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Monument to B. Mailin (1894 – 1939

Mailin Beimbet (Bimukhamet) Zharmagambetovich is a writer, playwright, one of the founders of Kazakh literature, was born on November 15, 1894 in Taranovsky district. He studied at the madrasah (1911-1912), at the Uazifa school in Troitsk (1913), at the Galiya Madrasah in Ufa (1913-1915).

  1. Mailin began his career with the creation of poetic works. The poems reflected his thoughts about life, about the injustice reigning in it, about the hard lot of the working people. The hero of many poems, poems, and stories by B. Mailin is in the past a downtrodden poor man who has become a conscious builder of a new life. The first collection of his poems was published in 1936 under the title "Marzhan". B. Mailin made a significant contribution to the development of prose, especially short stories, the development and development of various genres of drama. In 1937 B. Mailin was repressed, in 1958 he was rehabilitated. 

The monument was erected in 1994.  Sculptors: I.M. Bolshanin, I.T. Yaufman

Description of the monument

Dating of the monument -1994

Location, address: Kostanay, station square

The monument to Beimbet Maylin is installed on the station square. The writer is depicted with a book in his hands. The monument is installed on a rectangular concrete pedestal lined with marble. On the pedestal, in the technique of flat-relief carving, the inscription in Russian "Beimbet Maylin 1894-1957" is carved. The pedestal rises on a two-stage platform paved with paving stones.

Dimensions in cross section – 90 x 90 cm. Bust height – 1.5 m. The height of the pedestal is 2 m.

The material of the bust is copper, the pedestal is marble, concrete.