Nurlan Orazalin 13.06.1947 - poet, playwright. Public figure, laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the International Literary Prize "Alash." Member of the National Council under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, from 1996 to 2018 he was Chairman of the Board of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan. Member of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in 1970 he graduated of Faculty of Philology KazNU.