Following statement is an extract from the interview with Yesken Sergebayev: ‘My father was a shepherd, the very first year when the WWII started we’ve moved to the outskirts of Almaty, in a small village called Ali.

Then I’d ask my mother to help with the drying process of my toys I’ve created out of mud and clay’ Yesken Sergebayev continues, ‘they were just the figures of cows, horses and people.

His uncle Kadyrbek Zhunisbayev was the first person to recognize little Yesken’s sculpture and painter talents, so he advised his parents to submit the application into the local Arts School.

‘Uncle Kadyrbek affected further course of my life significantly’ Yesken Sergebayev says, ‘he was a head of the museum of Dzhambul Dzhabayev in Uzynagash village and this was actually the place where I first saw the workshop of well- known Kazakh sculpture Khakimzhan Nauryzbayev, I’ve been looking at his works from the outside and I was mesmerized.

While studying in the Academy of Arts in Leningrad, Yesken Sergebayev worked on restorations of following historical, cultural and architectural objects located in different parts of modern Saint- Petersburg: and so on.

The contest jury, numbering twenty people, included well- known Soviet artists, writers, poets such as Olzhas Suleimenov, for example, architects and sculptors as well as Ministry of Culture representatives.

‘By the year of 1980 the monument was ready to be cast with bronze’ Yesken Sergebayev continues, ‘but due to the Olympic games that started in 1980, Moscow and Leningrad went to lockdown ,which was because of pre-Olympic preparation works.

That is how Yesken Sergebayev was introduced to Dinmukhamed Kunayev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, Full Member of Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

There was a Soviet Union- wise big contest 43 years ago for Abu- Nasr Al- Farabi monument installation on the territory of modern Kazakhstan.

I’ve prepared the project of Al- Farabi monument for the contest.’ But that contest had to be postponed due to China- Soviet Union border conflict on Damansky Island.

USSR went into the pre-war preparation phase and there was an order to utilize all the bronze material in military purposes only and as a result Al- Farabi contest had to be postponed for 5-6 years.

‘My initial plan is to place the monument on the intersection of Al- Farabi and Dostyk prospects’ Yesken Sergebayev continues, ‘right in the heart of the city, couple of blocks away from Abay Kunanbayev statue, which I find very symbolical.

Sculptural composition dedicated to Dos Mukasan music band in Pavlodar:Monument of Kazakh poet, composer and philosopher Abay Qunanbayuli (Ust’-Kamenogorsk):