Contemporaries called Mukhtar Auezov a sage of the East, a reference man and a symbol of the era. This year marks the 125th anniversary of his birth. In this regard, today, on October 7, teachers of the Russian language (Meng N.O., Bondar R.R., Tomskaya L.M.) and the Kazakh language (Kydralina A.T.) held a reader's conference on the novel "The Way of Abai". Its participants were students of grades 8-10.In their reports, the guys emphasized the fact that the crowning achievement of Mukhtar Omarkhanovich Auyezov was the four-volume epic novel "The Way of Abai", which brought him world fame. The novel has been translated into many languages of the world and entered the "Library of World Literature".