SDG - for sustainable development, in paragraph 11 talks about “Sustainable Cities and Settlements”. It says that cities can be a place of various innovations and opportunities. On December 13, in the conference hall of the National Library took place an event dedicated to life and work of the People's Writer of the Republic of Kazakhstan A. Nurshaikhov. In this creative event, organized by the Language and General Education Training Department for Foreign Students, took part all structural divisions of the faculty of pre-university education. Among the participants were students from Japan, India, Turkey, as well as local youth. Foreigners studying Kazakh language, participated in the event with great interest. Young people who get acquainted with the works of the writer, reading and listening to his poems and prose, praising human values, are spiritually enriched.