The next hero of our column "Faces of Science" is Kalkaman Tursynovich Zhumagulov.
Kalkaman Tursynovich is a Doctor of Historical Sciences, a well–known historian, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Professor of the Department of World History, Historiography and Source Studies of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.
He began his scientific career in 1972 as a teacher at the Department of General History of the Kirov Kazakh State University. Since then, the scientist has been working within the walls of his native university, having passed all the stages of professional growth from assistant to professor, dean of the faculty, head of the department, academician.
In 1997, Kalkaman Tursinovich successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "The main problems of the development of Ancient German society before the Great Migration of Peoples", which was the result of his many years of research on the history of the Early Middle Ages.
Professor K.T.Zhumagulov is the only scientist in the Republic of Kazakhstan who is a six–time winner of the International DAAD Grant (Germany) in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2007,2011. Professor Kalkaman Zhumagulov is the first Kazakh historian and medievalist, the author of about 500 works. Under his leadership, 16 PhD theses, 8 doctoral dissertations (PhD), as well as numerous master's theses were defended.

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