Abstract
The article examines information, unknown to a wide audience about Akhmet Baitursynov’s education at the Orenburg Russian-Kazakh Teacher’s School, his teachers and the subjects studied by him, as well as their role in shaping the personality of the great reformer of the Kazakh language, a figure of a great nation, a literary critic, a linguist. The purpose of the study was to determine the influence of teachers, disciplines and people involved in the development and implementation of the sacred principle of the great figure “The people live for today, and I live for the future generation”. Citing the analyses and conclusions of foreign and native researchers, the author of the work proves by concrete examples that A. Baitursynov was educated at the Orenburg school. The history of the Orenburg Russian-Kazakh Teacher's School, directors who led the school, subject teachers are discussed. The works of such missionaries as A.V. Vasilyev, A. I. Tarnavsky, N. I. Ilyinsky, who served in the policy of Russification of the language and culture of the people who became a part of Russia, are also analyzed. New facts about their work and career in the Orenburg Russian-Kazakh teacher’s school are being investigated. Also, all the historical and linguistic data analyzed in the article are compared with A. Baitursynov’s subsequent scientific works and are confirmed by concrete conclusions. The scientific and practical significance of the article is of value to researchers of A. Baitursynov’s life and creative work.