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Kostanay

قوستاناي

City in Kazakhstan, administrative centre of the Kostanay Province.

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Ybrai Altynsarin

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Ybrai Altynsarin

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islam.museum contributors. “Kostanay”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/kostanay/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Ybrai Altynsarin

Kazakh educator and writer (1 November 1841 – 29 July 1889), the foremost Kazakh enlightener of the nineteenth century; he opened Kazakh–Russian schools across the Turgay region, wrote the first Kazakh chrestomathy (1879), and carried Kazakh from the Perso-Arabic to the Cyrillic alphabet.