Sayakbay Karalaev
Kyrgyz: Саякбай Каралаев![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Sayakbay_Karalaev_on_500_som_note.jpg/220px-Sayakbay_Karalaev_on_500_som_note.jpg)
Born 1894
Died May 7, 1971 (aged 76-77)
Occupation Poet
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Sayakbay Karalaev, as shown on the Kyrgyz 500 som note.
Ak-Ölöng, Semirechye Oblast, Governor-Generalship of the Steppes, Russian Empire
Frunze, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union
Sayakbay Karalaev (Kyrgyz: Саякбай Каралаев; 1894 – 7 May 1971) was a Soviet and Kyrgyz storyteller and manaschi - a reciter of the epic Kyrgyz poem Manas.[1]
A French translation of his recitation of the epic Er Töshtük was published in 1965.[2]
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