=== Memory ===
=== Memory ===
– On [[September 22]], [[1999]], the name of Mashhur Zhusup was given to the [[Zhanazhol (Karaganda Region)|Zhanazhol Secondary School]] in the Bayanaul District of [[Pavlodar Region]]. At the S. Toraygyrov Pavlodar State University in 2004, a scientific-practical center for the study of Mashhur Zhusup was opened. In 2009, the central Lenin Street in the city of [[Ekıbastūz|Ekibastuz]] was renamed in honor of Mashhur Zhusup. In 2019, one of the central streets in [[Pavlodar]], 1 May Street, was renamed Mashkhur-Zhusup Street. In 2020, School Street in the village of Zhetekshi was renamed Mashhur Zhusup Street. [[Mashkhur Jusup Mosque|The Mashhur Jusup Mosque]], located in the center of Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, was completed in 2001 and is one of the largest mosques in the country. It can accommodate up to 1,500 worshippers and features an architectural design symbolizing a heart, open to peace and kindness.
– On [[September 22]], [[1999]], the name of Mashhur Zhusup was given to the [[Zhanazhol (Karaganda Region)|Zhanazhol Secondary School]] in the Bayanaul District of [[Pavlodar Region]]. At the S. Toraygyrov Pavlodar State University in 2004, a scientific-practical center for the study of Mashhur Zhusup was opened. In 2009, the central Lenin Street in the city of [[Ekıbastūz|Ekibastuz]] was renamed in honor of Mashhur Zhusup. In 2019, one of the central streets in [[Pavlodar]], 1 May Street, was renamed Mashkhur-Zhusup Street. In 2020, School Street in the village of Zhetekshi was renamed Mashhur Zhusup Street. [[Mashkhur Jusup Mosque|The Mashhur Jusup Mosque]], located in the center of Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, was completed in 2001 and is one of the largest mosques in the country.
These honors and facilities reflect Mashhur Zhusup’s enduring legacy in Kazakh culture, literature, and spiritual life, commemorating his contributions as an influential figure of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Mashkhur-Zhusup Kopeev – (1858, Bayanaul district – 1931, Bayanaul region, Kazakh ASSR) – Kazakh poet, philosopher, historian, ethnographer, orientalist and collector of oral folklore of the Kazakh people.
Mashkhur-Zhusup Kopeev was born in 1858 in the territory of the modern Bayanaul District.[1] He belonged to the Kulik sub-clan (Kazakh: Күлік) of the Suyndyk clan of the Argyn tribe of the Middle Zhuz.[2] He began his education at a village school. In 1870, he studied at the Bukhara madrasah of Hazrat Kamara, after which he traveled through Northern and Central Kazakhstan. During his travels, he collected oral folk art and familiarized himself with the lifestyle of the clans and tribes inhabiting those areas.
In 1872, Kopeev enrolled in the Kukeldash madrasah in Bukhara.[3] After graduating in 1875, he worked as a teacher in a village for several years. Alongside teaching, he was actively engaged in journalistic work, publishing in the newspaper “Dala Ualayaty” (“Kyrgyz Steppe Newspaper”) and the magazine “Aykap.” His knowledge and talent earned him great popularity and respect among the people, and as a result, he received the honorary title “Mashhur,” which in Arabic means “famous, renowned, worthy.”[2][3][4]
Between 1887 and 1890, he conducted ethnographic expeditions to Samarkand, Bukhara, Tashkent, Turkestan, and other cities of Central Asia. His acquaintance with the Russian Turkologist and ethnographer Vasily Radlov influenced Mashhur Zhusup’s interest in collecting Kazakh folklore. Throughout these expeditions, he gathered and published many samples of Kazakh oral folk art.[5]
In 1906–1907 in Kazan, collections of Mashhur Zhusup’s poems titled “Experience Accumulated by Life,” “Situation,” and the book “To Whom Does Saryarka Belong,” written in prose and verse, were published by the Khusainov publishing house. In these works, the author addresses issues of social inequality, public education, freedom of speech, and right to work. Later, the tsarist censorship deemed these books harmful, almost the entire print run was confiscated, and the author was listed as politically unreliable, forcing him to hide temporarily in Tashkent. Notable poems include “Paying Tribute to Science,” “On the Current Occupation of the Kazakhs,” ” I Searched for a Life Partner Everywhere,” “Letter,” and “To Mother.”[6]
Following the traditions of oral creativity, he wrote dastans (epic poems) such as “Trade of Devils,” “The Hawk and the Nightingale,” “The Old Man and Two Young Men,” among others. His good grasp of Arabic and Persian allowed Mashhur Zhusup to deeply study Eastern poetry and also create dastans inspired by Eastern motifs, including “Gulshat-Sherizat,” “Gibrat-nama,” “Bayan-nama,” and others.
He also recorded oral works from folk storytellers such as Bukhara Zhyrau, Kotesha, Shortanbay, Shozhe, as well as poems by Abai and S. Toraygyrov. These materials became valuable sources for folklorists, historians, and literary scholars.[1][4]
In 1915, Kopeev returned to the Bayanaul District, where he spent his final years until his death in 1931. Little information has been preserved about this period of his life and creative work. It is known that shortly before his death, Mashhur Zhusup ordered the construction of his own mausoleum. He was buried there; however, in 1952, the structure was demolished by the authorities, who were displeased with the popular pilgrimages to the grave. The mausoleum was restored in the early 21st century.[6]
– On September 22, 1999, the name of Mashhur Zhusup was given to the Zhanazhol Secondary School in the Bayanaul District of Pavlodar Region. At the S. Toraygyrov Pavlodar State University in 2004, a scientific-practical center for the study of Mashhur Zhusup was opened. In 2009, the central Lenin Street in the city of Ekibastuz was renamed in honor of Mashhur Zhusup. In 2019, one of the central streets in Pavlodar, 1 May Street, was renamed Mashkhur-Zhusup Street. In 2020, School Street in the village of Zhetekshi was renamed Mashhur Zhusup Street. The Mashhur Jusup Mosque, located in the center of Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, was completed in 2001 and is one of the largest mosques in the country.
