Bakhyt Kenjeev

[2] Kenjeev was born in Shymkent, Kazakh SSR on 2 August 1950.

[5] He graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with the equivalent of an M.S.

[6] In 1975, he was a founding member of the "Moscow Time" group of poets, with Alexei Tsvetkov, Alexander Soprovsky, and Sergey Gandlevsky.

[8] After Perestroika, Kenjeev frequently visited Russia, Ukraine, and other post-Soviet countries; he was a regular guest at numerous poetry festivals, including the Moscow Bienale, Kievskie Lavry, Leningradskie Mosty, Blue Metropolis Montreal festival,[9] and the international poetry festival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and published several volumes of poetry.

Many of his poems were translated into English, French, Kazakh, German, Swedish, and other languages.