Reading school – "Anniversaries of the Year": - 125th anniversary of the birth of scientist–geologist, Doctor of Geological and mineralogical Sciences, professor, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR Kanysh Imantaevich Satpayev. For more than forty years, the famous Kazakh writer Medeu Sarsek has devoted himself to studying the life path of the glorious son of the Kazakh people K. I. Satpayev. This book is not just a biography of an outstanding scientist, fixing the facts of his biography. This is an emotional story about a statesman, a world-renowned scientist, the first president of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, who was awarded the highest awards of the former Soviet Union for his contribution to the development of geological and other branches of science.