The M. O. Auezov South Kazakhstan State University (Kazakh: М. О. Әуезов атындағы Оңтүстік Қазақстан мемлекеттік университеті) also known as Mukhtar Auezov South Kazakhstan University, is a multidisciplinary higher educational institution in the city of Shymkent, which provides training in 76 technical and humanitarian specialties.

The university is named after the popular Kazakh writer and social activist Mukhtar Omarkhanuli Auezov.

[2] During the height of the World War II in the Soviet Union, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on 19 June 1943 decided to establish the Technological Institute of Building Materials' in accordance with Resolution No.

On June 29 of the same year, the All-Union Committee for Higher Education under the USSR People's Commissariat and the USSR Commissioner for Building Materials issued an order "On the organization of the Technological Institute of Building Materials in Chimkent, Kazakh SSR."

The building of the pedagogical school on Sovetskaya Street (now Kazybek Bi) was transferred to the university.