The most important thing in a person's life is to once make the right choice of the path that he is ready to follow all his life, and go, not just contemplating, but actively acting and transforming the world around him. This path is thorny: taking step by step, you have to overcome huge difficulties, each time making incredible efforts not to stop and go forward to even greater challenges. Overcoming challenges is the lot of strong natures. Among them is the rector of Kostanay State Pedagogical Institute, Professor, Doctor of Geographical Sciences Kuat Maratuly Baimyrzayev. Under his leadership, the university actively participated in the introduction of credit technology, which led to an improvement in the quality of students ' education.
One should also note such an innovative approach in the university's activities as the creation of research centers, the purpose of which is to systematically study and promote advanced scientific and pedagogical achievements. These are the Center for Regional Historical Research, the Research Center for Ecology and Biology, the French Cultural Center, and the Center for Advanced Training and Retraining of Teachers.
K. M. Baimyrzaev is a specialist in fundamental and applied research on economic and geographical problems of rational use of natural resources.
His path to the top of science was not easy. The starting point on this path was the geography department of KazSU, which Kuat Maratuly graduated from in 1989, after which he remained working at the university as deputy secretary of the Komsomol organization for ideological work. From April 1991 to February 1997-Assistant to the rector, then supervised educational and social work, being the vice-rector for Student Affairs, and in 2001 became the dean of the Faculty of Geography. In all the posts held by K. M. Baimyrzayev in the walls of his native university, he has established himself as a highly qualified specialist and an initiative organizer. These important qualities were taken into account when K. M. Baimyrzayev was appointed Rector of Kostanay in February 2004 by the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of KazakhstanБаймырзаева назначили на должность ректора в Костанай.
2004 was one of the most difficult years in the history of Kostanay Pedagogical Institute, as it was actually the time of its revival. Of course, for K. M. Baimyrzayev, as a manager, this was the moment when it was necessary to show his business skills especially actively, use all his experience to raise the institute to the national and international level and fill the life of the university with creative work. Thus, in October 2006, the Institute was awarded the International Award of the Badge of Honor "Leader of the National Economy-2006 "(the award was presented in Moscow). To ensure the international attractiveness of the Institute, K. M. Baimyrzayev initiates the signing of cooperation agreements and agreements between the Institute and other universities in the near and far abroad. In September 2008, in Bologna (Italy), he signed a document on the Institute's accession to the Magna Carta of Universities.
K. M. Baimyrzayev defended his PhD thesis on "Economic and geographical assessment of territorial combinations of natural resources of Central Kazakhstan" in 1996, and his doctoral thesis on "Economic and geographical problems of rational use of natural resources in the Central Kazakhstan region" in 2001, majoring in "Economic, social and political geography" and "geoecology". For his active scientific and pedagogical activity in 2005, K. M. Baimyrzayev was elected a full member (academician) of the Kazakh Academy of Education named after Y. Altynsarin.For achievements in scientific and pedagogical, educational and labor activities, the Ministry of Education and Scienceawarded him the badge "Honorary Worker of Education" in 2007, and the badge of Education in 2008. Altynsarina. By the Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated December 7, 2007, he was awarded the Order of "Kurmet".
K. M. Baimyrzaev is the author of two monographs, two textbooks and over 50 articles, has an author's certificate obtained in 2003 for the electronic textbook "Geography", grade 10. K. M. Baimyrzaev is an example of a modern leader: bold and wise in decision-making, demanding of himself and others, active in positive endeavors that optimize the educational process and the work of the Institute's structural divisions. It supports creative youth and students. As you know, a good teacher always leaves a part of himself in his students. Thus, many of those whose mentor was K. M. Baimyrzayevfound themselves in the pedagogical field and successfully work in the system of secondary, specialized and higher education in the Republic of Kazakhstan. He follows the chosen path without stopping, gradually climbing higher and higher. He is convinced that he once made the right choice.