Togolok Moldo

Togolok Moldo on the Kyrgyz 20 som note.

Togolok Moldo on a 2010 Kyrgyz stamp.

Togolok Moldo (Kyrgyz: Тоголок Молдо; real name: Bayymbet Abdyrakhmanov; 10 June 1860 – 4 January 1942) was a Kyrgyz poet, Manaschi and folk song writer. Born in Ak-Talaa district, Naryn Region (oblast). Togolok Moldo by his audiences – "togolok" means round-faced, "moldo" means an educated person. He is buried near the village of about 3,000 persons named for him in Ak-Talaa district.

Bibliography

Тоголок Молдо. Избранное. (Togolok Moldo. Selected.) (1958, translated in Russian from Kyrgyz). Goslitizdat.
Дорогой песен (1958, translated in Russian from Kyrgyz). Molodaya Gvardiya.
Волк и лиса (Wolf and Fox, 1972, translated in Russian from Kyrgyz). Mektep.

References

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Тоголок Молдо. Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Тоголок Молдо (Байымбет Абдырахманов). National Kyrgyz Library

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