Kaisyn Shuvayevich Kuliev or Qaysin Quli (Russian: Кайсы́н Шува́евич Кули́ев, romanized: Kaisyn Shuvayevich Kuliyev; Karachay-Balkar: Къулийланы Шууаны жашы Къайсын, romanized: Quliylanı Şuwanı caşı Qaysın; 1 November 1917 – 4 June 1985) was a Balkar poet.

His poems are widely translated to most languages in the former Soviet Union, including Russian, Ossetian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Armenian.

Kaisyn Kuliev (Quli) was born on November 1, 1917, in a Balkar aul Upper Chegem to a family of stock-breeders and hunters.

In 1935 Kuliev arrived in Moscow and entered the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS).

He attended lectures at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute and continued to write.

While in the hospital Kaisyn Kuliev wrote many poems that were published in Pravda, and Krasnaya Zvezda.

In 1944, Joseph Stalin ordered deportation of the Balkar ethnic group to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

[1] In May 1956, Kuliev went to Moscow, and in 1957 he published Mountains and The Bread and the Rose (1957) with the help of Russian poet Nikolai Tikhonov.

His Russian translators included Naum Grebnev, Bella Akhmadulina, Nahum Korzhavin and Oleg Chukhontsev.