October 23. Today's Birthdays

Today's Birthdays is the one-stop shop where you can learn about prominent Kazakhstani people who were born on the 23rd of October.

Kanysh MOLDABAYEV (1963) – member of the Board of Directors of JSC Samruk-Kazyna

Kanatai DALMATOV (1978) – Deputy Director of the Frontier Service of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, Major General.

Esset Baiken (1986) – Deputy Mayor of Astana

Shavkat Rahmonov (1994) – Kazakhstan’s mixed martial arts fighter competing under the auspices of the UFC in the welterweight division. Former M-1 welterweight champion. He is ranked 6th in the official UFC welterweight rankings. Born in Uzbekistan,  Rakhmonov receives citizenship of Kazakhstan and moves with his family to Karaganda in 2014. He lives in Almaty now.

Manshuk Mametova (1922-1943) - machine gunner of the 100th separate rifle brigade of the 3rd attack army of the Kalinin Front, senior sergeant, and first Kazakh woman awarded the title of the Soviet Union Hero. She was born in the village of Zhaskus, Urdinsk district, Uralsk region, Kazakhstan. In 1942 she finished two courses of the Alma-Ata Medical Institute and joined the Red Army voluntarily. The Kalininsk Front troops including Manshuk Mametova fought for the liberation of the city of Nebel, Pskovsk region, on October 15, 1943. Manshuk was heavily wounded, but she had killed 70 enemy combatants before her death.