Khadisha Bukeeva

Khadisha Bukeyevna Bukeyeva (21 February 1917 – January 31, 2011) was a Soviet, Kazakh theater and film actress, master of fine arts. People's Artist of the USSR.

Biography Khadisha Bukeyeva was born on February 21 (January 1 according to other sources) 1917 in the village of Kaztal, Ural Oblast, Russian Empire (present-day Kazakhstan) (according to other sources in Kaztalovsky district ).

She lost her parents at an early age and was brought up in an orphanage in the village of Shieli in South Kazakhstan Region. In 1932, she was brought to Almaty and arranged to study in a preparatory group of the Medical Institute. It was very difficult to study, the necessary knowledge the girl did not have. She had to study intermittently, so she never managed to finish school.

Passion for singing and dancing does not pass without a trace. She took part in amateur performances. In 1934 she was selected by the commission and sent to study at the Technical School of Stage Art in Leningrad (since 1936 - the Central Stage School, now the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts), from which she graduated in 1938. Her mentors were prominent masters of stage , Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vasili Merkuryev.

In 1938, all the graduates of the school were sent to Shymkent. They were the core of the then organized .

Since 1942 she was an actress in the Kazakh State Drama Auezov Theater in Almaty, where she was on stage till the end of her life.

One of the facets of her talent was the skill of artistic reading.

Since 1965 conducted pedagogical activity at the theatrical faculty (since 1977 - the Theatrical and Art Institute, nowadays the Kazakh National Academy of Arts) at the Kazakh National Conservatory (1968 - the Kazakh National Academy of Arts). She was the student of the Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after Kurmangazy (since 1968 she was the senior lecturer, since 1974 she was the professor). Among her students are well-known Kazakh actors , Kuman Tastanbekov, , , , and Gulnara Mashurova.

Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Kazakh SSR

She died on January 31, 2011, in Almaty. Buried in the .

Awards and titles (1957) People's Artist of the USSR (1964) Stalin Prize of the third degree (1952) for her performance as Aigerim in Abai by Mukhtar Auezov Order of Lenin (1959) Order of Friendship of Peoples (1987) Order of the Badge of Honour (1946) Order of Otan (2000) Medal "Veteran of Labour" Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Creative Roles in theater

Intrigue and Love by Friedrich Schiller — Louise by Alexander Ostrovsky — Lyudmila by Mukhtar Auezov — Enlik Akhan Sera - Aktokt by Gabit Musirepov — Aktokty The Eve by Alexander Afinogenov — Zhamal (staged at the Mossovet Theatre, which was evacuated to Chimkent during the war)

Auezov Theater

Friendship and Love by — Saule Kara Kipchak Koblandy by Mukhtar Auezov — Karlyga Abai by Mukhtar Auezov — Aigerim Legend of Love (Farhad and Shirin) by Nâzım Hikmet — Mekhmene Banu The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare — Katharina Richard III (play) by William Shakespeare — Queen Margaret Othello by William Shakespeare — Emilia, Desdemona Saule by — Saule The Star of Vietnam by I. Kupriyanov — Thanh Amangeldy by Gabit Musirepov — Banu by Gabit Musirepov — Dametken Chokan Valikhanov by Sabit Mukanov — Panayeva The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky — Katerina Love at Dawn by Yaroslav Halan — Varvara

Filmography 1940 — — Raihan 1956 — The Birches in the Stepp — Dina 1957 — — Cameo 1958 — — Rabiga 1959 — On a Wild Shore — Muratova 1964 — Tracks Go Beyond the Horizon — Mother

Interesting Facts "Born to be beautiful." "The date of her birth in her passport is January 1, 1917. But those who knew Khadisha Bukeyeva intimately claim that she did not live to her 100th birthday for only a year. And January 1 is a symbolic date in her documents. It's no secret that many of that generation, whose childhood and youth fell on the hungry 20s, the true day and even year of birth was unknown. The actress herself celebrated her birthday on February 21 - in honor of the beginning of her married life in her long and happy marriage to the opera singer ." Galiya SHIMYRBAEVA, Kazakhstan truth, February 2, 2011. .. In Almaty, a memorial plaque has been installed on the wall of house #96 on Zenkova Street, where the actress lived for more than 25 years.