Togolok Moldo (; real name: Байымбет Абдырахманов, ''Bayymbet Abdyrakhmanov''; 10 June 1860 – 4 January 1942) was a Kyrgyz

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. Togolok Moldo by his audiences – "togolok" means round-faced, "moldo" means an educated person. He is buried near the village of about 3,000 persons named for him in Ak-Talaa district. A 'Semetey', totalling around 2050 lines, was collected from him by Kayum Miftakov in 1922. His later self-transcribed version of Manas was published in 2013. A manuscript of a ''sanjira'' (genealogy) was edited and published in 2009. Three kyrgyz poets

Bibliography

*''Тоголок Молдо. Избранное.'' (Togolok Moldo. Selected.) (1958, translated in Russian from Kyrgyz). Goslitizdat. *''Дорогой песен'' (1958, translated in Russian from Kyrgyz). Molodaya Gvardiya. *''Волк и лиса'' (Wolf and Fox, 1972, translated in Russian from Kyrgyz). Mektep.

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Тоголок Молдо (Байымбет Абдырахманов)
National Kyrgyz Library Kyrgyzstani poets Kyrgyzstani songwriters 1860 births 1942 deaths Manaschis People from Naryn Region 19th-century Kyrgyzstani writers 20th-century Kyrgyzstani writers Poets from the Russian Empire {{Kyrgyzstan-poet-stub