Anuar Galiev

Anuar Galiev

Date of Birth: 10.08.1959
Country: Kazakhstan

Content:
  1. Early Life and Education
  2. Academic Career
  3. Later Career
  4. Galiev passed away on May 19, 2022, after a long illness.

Early Life and Education

Anuar Galiev was born on August 10, 1959, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, into a family of civil servants. In 1976, he enrolled in the Faculty of History at the Kazakh State University, graduating in 1981.

Academic Career

From 1981 to 1984, Galiev worked as a research intern and lecturer at the Kustanai Pedagogical Institute. In 1984, he joined the Institute of History, Archeology, and Ethnography named after Ch. Ch. Valikhanov of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR. He rose through the academic ranks, culminating in the position of senior research fellow.

From 1992 to 1998, Galiev served as a scientific secretary and head of the Department of History of Eastern Peoples' Culture at the Institute of Oriental Studies named after R. B. Suleimenov of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Later Career

In 1998-2002, Galiev held the position of deputy director of the Center for Kipchak Studies at the Kazakh State Law Academy. From 2002 onwards, he served as a professor at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, the Abylai Khan Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages, and the Kazakh Academy of Labor and Social Relations.

Galiev passed away on May 19, 2022, after a long illness.

Research Contributions

In 1988, Galiev earned his PhD with a dissertation on the history and mythologization of ethnopolitical processes among Turkic-speaking peoples. His academic interests encompassed ethnosemyology and the historiography of Turkic peoples. He made significant contributions to the study of myth-making processes in the historiography of Central Asian nations.

Galiev published over seven monographs and textbooks, as well as 250 scientific and popular science articles that appeared in publications in 25 countries worldwide. Several of his publications were indexed in the Thomson Reuters and Scopus databases. He also authored several fictional history books for young readers.

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