Sherubay Kurmanbayuly is a linguist, Doctor of Philology (1999), professor (2001), academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2020).
Career: he was born in 1964 in Almaty region. In 1991, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Philology of the Al-Farabi Kazakh Medical University and in the same year began his career in science as a junior researcher at the Akhmet Baitursynuly Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic. Kazakhstan. In 1993-1996 he was the scientific secretary of this institute. 1996-1999 In 1999-2001, he was the head of the department of modern oriental languages at the Faculty of International Relations of KazNU. al-Farabi, and in 1999-2001 - the department of the Kazakh language of the Faculty of Philology. In 2001-2003, he was the head of the department of the Ministry of Culture, Information and Social Accord of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2003-2004, Deputy Director of the Department of Language Development of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2005-2006, he was deputy chairman of the language committee of the Ministry of Culture, Information and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 2006.06-2007. 02 – Head of the Department of General Linguistics and Translation Theory at L. N. Gumilyov State University. In 2007 - Advisor to the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in 2008 - Advisor to the Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in 2009.01-2009.08 - Head of the language structure of the Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund. From August 17, 2009 to July 10, 2011 A. Director of the Baitursynuly Institute of Linguistics. He is. Chairman of the dissertation council D.53.38.01 at the Institute of Linguistics named after Baitursynuly 02/10/06 - Turkic languages and 02/10/02 - Kazakh language. In 2011-2013, he was chairman and deputy chairman of the Language Committee of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 2014.01. - 2016.02. - Deputy Director of the Department of Organization and Control of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 02/22/2016 - 02/02/2023. Deputy Director of the Department of the Astana International Financial Center. Professor of the Department of Kazakh Linguistics at the State University named after L.N. Gumilyov (to date). Head of the Center for Turkic Studies named after N. Kelimbetov named after Abay.
Scientific activity: in 1994 he defended his candidate’s dissertation on the topic “Terms associated with plant organs and their structure” in the specialty “Turkish languages - 02/10/06”, on March 12, 1999 he defended his doctoral dissertation in the specialty “Kazakh language” on the topic “ Termination of Kazakh vocabulary." In 2013, he was elected a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and in 2020 he was elected an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Sh. Kurmanbayuly USA (New York), Germany (Giessen, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Munich), China (Beijing, Urimji), Azerbaijan (Baku), Turkey (Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Marmaris, Mugla, Antalya ), Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Samarkand, Khiva, Bukhara), Russia (Kazan), Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek) made presentations at international scientific conferences and forums. Under his direct leadership, conferences were organized throughout the country on many issues of language education, and he was the main speaker. In 1998-2014, he was a member and secretary of the State Terminology Commission under the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Member of this commission since 2022. In 2011-2013, he was secretary of the State Commission on Onomastics under the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since 2002, he has been the editor-in-chief of the journal “Terminological Khabarshi” - an organ of the Memterminkom under the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Sh. Kurmanbayuly taught 1 Doctor of Science and 8 Candidates of Science. The main scientific works are devoted to the study of terminology, lexicology, lexicography, terminography, verbal culture, translation, sociolinguistics, onomastics, and language policy. Author of a number of textbooks and teaching aids, terminology, bilingual dictionaries, more than 500 works in total, including about 40 books (10 scientific monographs). Under his scientific leadership, many international and domestic scientific projects have been implemented. Main scientific works: Terminology of Kazakh vocabulary (monograph). -Almaty: “Science”, 1998. -208. Periodicity of development of Kazakh terminology (monograph). -Astana: “Capital”, 2002. -212. Scientific foundations of the development of Kazakh terminology (monograph). -Almaty, 2004. -184. Terminological sources and methods of terminology. -Almaty, 2005. -240. Terminology: textbook. – Almaty, 2006. – 244. Terminologist’s tool (textbook for universities). - Almaty, 2007. -208. Alash and terminology (Kazakh terminology of the early 20th century, 1910-1930s): monograph. -Almaty, 2008. -244. New names and new uses. - Almaty, 2012. -288. Abbreviated words in Kazakh language. -Almaty, 2013. -296. Kazakh dictionary. - Almaty, 2013. -1488. (One of the authors). Kazakh terminology: research, textbook, dictionary, bibliography. -Almaty: “Dictionary of the Mukagli language. -Almaty, 2019. -1064. (B. Kaliev, Zh. Tuimebaev, S. Isakova). Media and word culture. -Almaty, 2020. -116. Main scientific works: Terminology of Kazakh vocabulary (monograph). -Almaty: “Science”, 1998. -208. Periodicity of development of Kazakh terminology (monograph). -Astana: “Capital”, 2002. -212. Scientific foundations of the development of Kazakh terminology (monograph). -Almaty, 2004. -184. Terminological sources and methods of terminology. -Almaty, 2005. -240. Terminology: textbook. – Almaty, 2006. – 244. Terminologist’s tool (textbook for universities). - Almaty, 2007. -208. Alash and terminology (Kazakh terminology of the early 20th century, 1910-1930s): monograph. -Almaty, 2008. -244. New names and new uses. - Almaty, 2012. -288. Abbreviated words in Kazakh language. -Almaty, 2013. -296. Kazakh dictionary. - Almaty, 2013. -1488. (One of the authors). Kazakh terminology: research, textbook, dictionary, bibliography. -Almaty: “Sardar”, 2014. -928+16. New names in literary translation: creation and use (monograph). -Astana: “Foliant”, 2017. -560. Dictionary of the Mukagli language. -Almaty, 2019. -1064. (B. Kaliev, Zh. Tuimebaev, S. Isakova). Media and word culture. -Almaty, 2020. -116. Dictionary (Dictionary of Abuses). - Nur-Sultan, 2021. -402. Dictionary of new names and usages. – Almaty, 2023. – 496. Alash and Terminologists. Development of Kazakh terminology (1910-1930). – Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 2023. – 304 p. Türkçe. The monograph was translated into Turkish by Ercan Petek.
Family: father of two sons, two daughters. Wife: Alimbek Gaukhar Rysbekovina, candidate of philological sciences, associate professor, associate professor of the Ukrainian National University
Awards: laureate of the state scholarship of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan “Outstanding Researchers and Talented Young Scientists” (1994, 1996). The Order of “Kurmet” (2014), the Order of “Parasat” (2020) and “Honored Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (2006), badges of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan.” For services to the development of science of the Republic of Kazakhstan" (2010), "Astana-10 years" (2008), "20 years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan" (2011), "Akhmet Baitursynuly" (2014), " Alash" (2017), "National Figure" (2017), "550 years of the Kazakh Khanate" (2017)), "Abai-175" (2021), "Mukagali Makataev" (2021), "Akhmet Baitursynuly" (2021) medals TURKSOY.