Background
K Akishev was a fifth generation descendent of the Argyn tribe head Chorman-bi, his parents were Abu Ali, or Akysh, and Gaziza Chorman, he was a youngest son of three sons and four daughters in the family, which lived in the South Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan. In the 1930s both of his parents, and three sisters, died of starvation, he and his brothers were saved by his maternal uncle Kanysh Satpaev, and he grew up as Kimal Satpaev. Before graduation from a high school in Alma-Ata, he informally took a last name Akishev in memory of his father, in 1942 it became his official name.
Education
First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Farabi University.
Career
The next year he was drafted into the army, in 1944 K. Akishev was badly wounded in his right arm, demobilized for disability, and returned to Alma-Ata. His arm was disabled for life. In 1945 Kimal Akishev continued his education in the Kazan University, and completed his doctorate in Leningrad Branch of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences Archeological Institute.
From 1954 K. Akishev headed a series of archeological expeditions, among which were excavations of the Otrar city, Saka pyramids in Besshatyr, and Issyk kurgan, which brought K Akishev into international prominence.
K.Akishev authored over 200 scientific works, monographs, textbooks, and articles Many of them were translated into various languages.
Akishev. His 1967 contribution to the collective work "Ancient culture of Central Kazakhstan" was awarded a Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Academy of Sciences Ch.Ch.Valihanov (Shokan Walikhanuli) premium.
Membership
In 1989 he was elected a corresponding member of the German Archeology Institute.
