A.B. Kalysh graduated with honors from the Faculty of History of KazSU named after S.M. Kirova (1977), was a scholarship holder named after Abai Kunanbaev and V.I. Lenin. In 1989, at the Institute of Ethnography and Anthropology named after N.N. Miklukho-Malaya Academy of Sciences of the USSR defended the candidate dissection on the topic: "Culture and life of rural population of Pavlodar Priirtyshye", and in 2010 - doctoral thesis on "Problems of Kazakh families and marriage in 1970-2000: ethnological research" on specialty 07.00 .07 - Ethnology, ethnography and anthropology. Work activity. 1977-1978 - Chairman of the Council of the University; 1978-1981 - Post-graduate student of the department of ethnography of the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography named after. Ch.V. Valikhanova of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR; 1981-1993 - junior, scientific, senior research fellow, deputy. Director for Commercial Issues of the Institute. 1993-1997 - Associate Professor, Deputy. Dean of the Faculty for Educational and Scientific Work, 1997-2000. - doctoral candidate, 2000-2003 - Associate Professor, 2003-2005. - Head. Department of Archeology and Ethnology, 2006-2007. - Associate Professor of the named faculty of historical faculty of KazNU. Al-Farabi. 2007-2010 - Head. the university department of the history of Kazakhstan KazGosZhenPU; 2011-2016 - Head. Department of Archeology, Ethnology and Museology of the Faculty of History, Archeology and Ethnology, KazNU. al-Farabi, is currently a professor at the said department. A.B. Kalysh in different years was the responsible editor of the journal "Bulletin of KazGU. Historical series "(1993-1994), a member of the editorial board of the journal (2004-2007, 2011-2015)," Bulletin of KazGosZhenPU. Historical series "(2007-2010). In 1989-1998 he was the head of ethnographic and ethnosociological expeditions of the Institute of History and Ethnology. Ch.V. Valikhanov KN MES RK and KazNU named after al-Farabi in Almaty, Zhambyl, Mangystau, Pavlodar, Kostanay and South-Kazakhstan regions. Amanzhol Boranbayly is a member of the scientific expert group of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan, the Committee of the National Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan for UNESCO and ISESCO, the National Congress of Historians of Kazakhstan, the Kazakhstan National Geographic Society; Chairman of the subdivision RUMS on the specialties "5BO20800, 6M020800, D020800 - Archeology and Ethnology" of the commission on historical specialties of the UMS RUMS of higher and postgraduate education of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the basis of KazNU named after al-Farabi; Scientific secretary of the dissertational council for defending dissertations for awarding the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), doctor in profile history, archeology and ethnology at KazNU. Al-Farabi (2014-2017). Scientific interests: ethnic, ethnocultural, ethno-demographic processes, ethnic history, family and marriage relations, spiritual and material culture of Kazakhs and other ethnoses of polyethnic Kazakhstan, as well as psychological adaptation of Kazakh repatriates in their historical homeland - in Kazakhstan. Number of defended dissertations: 8 candidate dissertations on specialties were successfully defended under his scientific guidance 07.00.07 - Ethnology, ethnography and anthropology and 07.00.02 - Domestic history (history of Kazakhstan), 2 PhD-doctors. Scientific and pedagogical experience: 40 years, including 37 years of scientific and pedagogical experience. Participation in scientific projects: he was the co-director of planned and unplanned topics of the Department of Ethnography of the IEA named after. Ch.V. Valikhanov Academy of Sciences of the Republic, Department of Archeology and Ethnology of the Faculty of History of KazNU. al-Farabi, ICGT them. HA. Yassaui. Member of the international scientific project "Livestock in the Republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan" in conjunction with scientists from the Institute of Oriental Studies. R.B.Suleimenova of NAS RK and Wisconsin University of the USA (1998-2000); holder of a scientific grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the theme "Modern ethno-cultural processes in Kazakhstan" (2000-2002); participant of the scientific project "Kazakhs of the People's Republic of China" in conjunction with scientists from the IIE them. Ch.V. Valikhanov KN MES RK (2009-2011), "Adaptations of the society to changes in culture: the example of Kazakhs of Western Kazakhstan in the mid-19th - early 20th centuries", "Modern diasporology and Kazakhstan's experience of interethnic harmony and tolerance" (2015- 2017) of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Head of the scientific project of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Homecoming: expectations and reality (psychological problems of integration of oralmans in Kazakhstan society" (2012-2014), "Psychological context of problem families in Kazakhstan: ethno-cultural aspects" (2015-2017). Participation in conferences: delivered scientific reports at many national and international scientific conferences and sessions (Almaty, Tashkent, Ashkhabad, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Omsk, Kiev, Lviv, Los Angeles (USA), Tehran (Iran), Ankara ( Turkey), Urumqi (China), Lefkosa (Northern Cyprus), Paris (France). The number of scientific works: has more than 400 scientific publications (in Kazakh, Russian, Turkish and English), including 30 monographs and books, 12 textbooks, educational and teaching aids. The educational and methodological manual of the author "Kazakh ethnogenous ethnogenes ethnical tarihi" was recognized as the "Best educational publication of KazNU named after al-Farabi" in 2014 in the competition in honor of the 80th anniversary of the university. State awards, honorary titles, promotions: the Order of the Badge of Honor (1976), the Best Teacher of Kazakhstan 2012 by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the laureate of the Presidential Prize for outstanding contribution to the development of science and technology in Kazakhstan (2016) academician G.M. Mutanov, Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan Sarinzhipov.