Muryn-zhyrau — Tile­gen Sen­gir­beku­ly (1859–1954) is an out­stand­ing Kaza­kh poet-impro­vis­er, one of the last rep­re­sen­ta­tives of oral folk art — zhyrau (sto­ry­teller). Born on Jan­u­ary 16, 1860 in the Mangys­tau region, Mangysh­lak region. He was a stu­dent of Kasha­­gan-zhyrau and Nurym-zhyrau, stud­ied from them the epic “Forty Batyrs of Crimea”, a fig­ure who trans­mit­ted the epic on paper to our time. The bright­est rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Kaza­kh oral art of the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. Muryn Sen­gir­beku­ly is a great sto­ry­teller who, 5 cen­turies after Sypyr-zhyrau, brought the spir­i­tu­al her­itage of the Kaza­kh peo­ple — the epic “Forty Crimean Batyrs” to the present. Muryn’s father was a famous mas­ter jew­el­er. In his younger years, Muryn Zhyrau also stud­ied jew­el­ry. Since child­hood, he knew folk poet­ry well, he knew many epic works by heart. Muryn dis­trib­uted and pro­mot­ed Kaza­kh hero­ic works in the land of Karakalpak­stan, Turk­menistan, Uzbek­istan, and Tajik­istan. In 1941, after A. Khangeldin wrote down 37 excerpts from the epic “Forty Crimean Batyrs”, Muryn-zhyrau became known through­out the Repub­lic. In 1942, the Pres­i­dent of the Kaza­kh Branch of the Sci­en­tif­ic Acad­e­my of the KSSR Kanysh Sat­paev and the Direc­tor of His­to­ry, Lan­guage and Lit­er­a­ture of the Kaza­kh SSR Nyg­met Sauran­baev sent a let­ter to the Chair­man of the Coun­cil of Min­is­ters of the Kaza­kh SSR Nur­tas Ondasyn­ov with a request to invite a nar­ra­tor, with the pro­vi­sion of spe­cial con­di­tions for the lat­ter. July 11, 1942 Muryn Sen­gir­beku­ly arrives in Alma-Ata. After a short rest in front of 60 lis­ten­ers of the Phil­har­mon­ic, zhyrau per­forms the epics “Orak-Mamai” and “Kara­­sai-Kazi”. Among the lis­ten­ers were rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Kaza­kh intel­li­gentsia, such as Sabit Mukanov, Kanysh Sat­paev, Mukhtar Aue­zov, Abdil­da Tazhibaev, Askar Tok­magam­be­tov, Esmagam­bet Ismailov, Kazhym Zhu­maliev, Nyg­met Sauran­baev, Gabiden Mustafin, Akhmet Zhubanov, Gabit Mus­re­pov, Alkey Mar­gu­lan and oth­ers. , and wrote down epics Mari­am Khakimzhano­va. In 1947, to the funds of the Sci­en­tif­ic Acad­e­my. I. Uyik­baev was giv­en a com­plete auto­bi­og­ra­phy and an epic about 4 batyrs. In the same year, Muryn-zhyrau was invit­ed to the Repub­li­can Peo­ple’s Cre­ative House in Almaty. He stays in Almaty for sev­er­al days with pub­lic per­for­mances. At the same time, his epics are being record­ed. On April 20, 1948, the Decree of the Coun­cil of Min­is­ters of the Kaza­kh SSR “Col­lec­tion, clas­si­fi­ca­tion and record­ing of the her­itage of Muryn-zhyrau” was issued. The man­u­script of the let­ters of the epic “Forty Batyrs of Crimea” is now in the man­u­script depart­ment of the Sci­en­tif­ic Acad­e­my of the Repub­lic of Kaza­khstan. Muryn lived in the afore­men­tioned house from 1906 until the end of his life. In the late 70s, Muryn’s rel­a­tives left the house and left for the Atyrau region. The great sto­ry­teller died on August 23, 1954 in Fort Shevchenko.