08/10/2026
The poem "Kobylandy Batyr": A Common Spiritual Heritage of Turkic Peoples
An international scientific and theoretical conference on the topic "The Spiritual Heritage of Turkic Peoples in the Context of World Civilization: The Poem 'Kobylandy Batyr'" was held in Aktobe recently.
The conference was jointly organised by the National Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan for UNESCO and ISESCO, the National Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Intangible Cultural Heritage, the International Foundation for Turkic Culture and Heritage, the Akimat of Aktobe Region, the M.O. Auezov Institute of Literature and Art, and the K. Zhubanov Aktobe Regional University.
Along with Kazakhstan, the international forum was attended by well-known folklorists, literary scholars, scientists and researchers from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Russian Federation and other countries.
During the scientific meeting, the historical foundations and artistic features of the epic "Kobylandy Batyr," its connection with the epic traditions of Turkic peoples, various versions and translations of the work, the concept of heroism, the traditions of epic storytelling, as well as issues of preserving folklore heritage and its popularisation in the modern cultural and digital space were discussed.
At the plenary session, scientific reports were delivered by Academician Abdyldazhan AkmatAliyev, Director of the Chingiz Aitmatov Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic; Hikmet Kuliyev, Director of the Institute of Folklore of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan; Pınar Denmez Fedakar, Professor at Ege University (Turkey); Gulnur Khusainova, scholar of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Abat Pangereyev, Professor at the K. Zhubanov Aktobe Regional University, and other well-known researchers.
In addition, within the framework of the conference, a presentation of translated editions of the epic "Kobylandy Batyr" in Azerbaijani and Yakut (Sakha) languages took place, and issues of popularising the epic in the international scientific and cultural space and introducing its versions in various languages into scientific circulation were considered.