December 13, 2022 in honor of Independence Day of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology Department Shakhanov T.E. held a round table discussion “Great Names of the Great Steppe” with students of groups 5323 and 5426 GM. In the course of the discussion Great Names of the Great Steppe were mentioned. For example, the names of the great chiefs of the Great Steppe – tsar Karaton, wise Donat, Yedilkhan (Atilla) and also Batyi Khan, who carried out the fourfold Great Migration of peoples from east to west and created the Great Steppe, were widely known in Europe and Asia.

In our time too, there are Great Names, who are sons of the Great Steppe, who have had a significant impact on the development of not only one people, but of all mankind. For example, the ethnologist and geneticist Alkei Margulan, who proved about the fourth race of mankind, which is really proved by the Institute of State Genetics in Penselvani (USA); in medicine Toregeldi Sharmanov (still applied in the world); the radiobiologist S.B. Balmukhanov (still applied in the world and awarded by Leon Bernard in 1978 for his victory in the problem of iodine deficiency). Balmukhanov, in spite of state prohibition, who proved about acute radiation sickness in JINR in 1958; our fellow countrymen – mathematician Toleubay Amanov from Abrala district, world-wide recognized author of “Amanov’s theory” in higher mathematics and who worked next to academician Kurchatov; composer Zholdybay Dastenov from Beskaragai district, who created symphonic masterpieces that are still performed by famous foreign music orchestras on a par with the works of Beethoven, Chopin, etc..

Department of Internal Diseases and Rheumatology