Saitanda, Semipalatinsk province 1924-1986 Almaty, Kazakhstan

A prominent Kazakh cultural figure, Nagymbek Nurmukhamedov was active both as an artist and an art historian. He authored books like The Art of Kazakhstan (1970) and Graphics of the Kazakh SSR (1978). A veteran of World War II and a graduate of the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute of Arts, he masterfully bridged socialist realism with explorations of Kazakh identity through painting and drawing.