10.05.2023, the Department of Psychiatry and Narcology held an event “Visiting the monuments of Semey”. The assistant of the department Almagambetova A.A. made a welcoming speech to the students of the curatorial group 5108 of the Semey Medical University. In her speech, she highlighted that the purpose of the meeting was to familiarize students with the life and work of great writers, poets. Abai Kunanbayev is a Kazakh poet, composer, educator, thinker, public figure, the founder of a new wave of Kazakh written literature and its first classic, a cultural reformer in the spirit of rapprochement with European culture based on enlightened Islam. Abai Kunanbayev had a great influence on the emerging Kazakh national intelligentsia of the late XIX − early XX centuries. Abai Kunanbayev’s contribution to science and culture is invaluable. Shakarim Kudaiberdiyev is a talented Kazakh poet, writer, translator, composer, historian. Engaged in politics, was elected to the volost rulers. His translation of Hafiz into Kazakh remains unsurpassed in skill and technique. One of the most prominent representatives of the Kazakh intelligentsia, Alikhan Bukeikhanov, entered the history of the 20th century as a progressive public figure who tirelessly fought for the independence of his homeland. Mukhtar Auezov, whose life and work are inextricably linked with the formation of the Kazakh national literature, lived a difficult life full of struggle.[/vc_column_text]