On October 5, Yessenov University researchers went on a field scientific expedition on the topic “HISTORICAL TOPONYMS OF MANGYSTAU”.
The expedition is being implemented within the framework of a scientific project that received a grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the topic: “Toponomastic area of Mangystau: historical toponymy, toponyms and their interpretation”, head of the scientific project Doctor of Philology, Professor Nurdauletova Bibaisha Ilyasovna.
The researchers of the scientific project, in addition to the teachers of Yesenov University, include Professor, historian, ethnographer Zhambyl Omarovich Artykbayev, chief researcher of the Institute of Linguistics named after him. Akhmeta Baitursynova Professor Kyzdarkhan Rysbergenova, researcher at the Institute of Archeology named after Alkey Margulan Irina Bekzatovna, doctoral and undergraduates.
This time the Expedition will study the names of ancient geographical objects, sacred places, mounds and estates in the Mangystau region bordering the Republic of Turkmenistan, formed in connection with the peculiarities of geographical nature, fauna and flora, historical activity, etc.
The scientific purpose of the expedition is to conduct research to identify the layers of culture of various periods, linguistic substrates, customs, traditions of ancient and medieval ethnic groups, to recreate trade routes, posts and berths, traces of which have been preserved in this region, to identify the stages of development of Eurasian religious and confessional and ideological ideas from toponomastic data of Mangystau, which have a thousand–year history.
