Saken Rakhmatullayevich Turganaliev was born on October 22, 1962 in the city of Kyzylorda in a family of teachers. In 1989 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Land Management Engineers with a degree in Land Management. From 1993 to 2002 he worked as a lecturer at Taraz State University, from 2002 to 2009 as a lecturer at the Kazakh National Agrarian University, from 2015 to 2018 as a senior researcher at the Kazakh Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, from 2018 to the present as a senior lecturer at the Department of Geography, Land Management and Cadastre of the Kazakh National University.