SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION BETWEEN ARMENIA AND KAZAKHSTAN: FACTS AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

The interstate agreement signed in 2010 played an essential role in strengthening the long-
established scientific and cultural relations between Armenia and Kazakhstan. Yerevan State
University closely collaborates with L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Nur-
Sultan as well as other leading higher education institutions of Kazakhstan in a wide variety of
scientific disciplines (particularly in the field of the historical-philological study of the
Qypchaq (Ghpchagh) language manuscripts written in Armenian script). As a result of the
collaboration between the YSU specialists, the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in
Armenia and the Writers’ Unions of Armenia and Kazakhstan, for the first time ever, the
fundamental anthology of Khazakh literature was published in Armenia in 2019. A year later,
in 2020 the new edition of Mukhtar Auezov’s novel “Abay” – an outstanding “literary diptych”
dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the founder of modern Kazakh literature Abay
Kunanbayev as well as the first Armenian translation of Abay Kunanbayev’s “The Book of
Words” were published.