“The truth will break through the stone like a blade of grass. Truth is the cross of the elect. Following it is a very difficult burden. Many may desire it, but not everyone will carry it through.” There are people who are direct, sharp, categorical and categorical. Honest. Uncooperative. Nope - comfortable. Those who speak the truth straight to the face without beating around the bush. Looking ahead further and deeper than many. It's difficult with them. But it’s not easy without them. This is how, after his recent passing away, the last of the Mohicans appears in the memory of Serikpay Shegenov, Anapiy Alpysov and Seksenbay Omarkhanov, as their closest comrades, who worked for many decades, said about their Teacher and mentor Tokhtar Kabdushevich Yeseneev (1940-2022). together. The first Doctor of Agricultural Sciences of the former Kokshetau region, professor of Kokshetau University named after Sh. Ualikhanov, academician of the International Academy of Science and Practice of Production Organization, there are many titles and regalia, but listing them will take one and a half pages. This man, like no one else, passionately supported the cause. In a freedom-loving, independent truth-lover, a sincere nature that does not tolerate falsehood in anything, the need to achieve justice at all costs was ineradicable until the last days of his life. A conscientious and sensitive man, who did not give up, Toktar Kabdushevich, without fear of being misunderstood, organically despised servility, servility, protectionism, plebeian groveling before those in power, opportunism. A fighter by nature openly and demonstratively denounced his superiors in his circle for greed, hating manifestations of pharisaism, hypocrisy and deceit. The name of Toktar Yeseneev, who at one time created a unique breed of cross-bred meat-wool sheep, is especially revered in the republic. An indicative fact characterizes an extraordinary, non-standard personality: when a newspaperman wanted to tell the whole country about the achievements of a scientist from the pages of Kazpravda, the professor, unexpectedly refuting the praise directed at himself, heatedly spoke about the problems of cattle breeding, giving irrefutable, compelling arguments in favor of his rightness. The village of Nikolskoye, Aiyrtau district, Kokshetau region. The blessed land of his father, forever beloved, for which he so tore his soul. His front-line father, a soldier who suffered severely from his wounds during the war with the White Finns, us and the Germans, died in 1946; Taiken’s mother, exhausted from illness and the hardships of the war, passed away a year earlier, in 1945. From the age of five, the boy was raised in the Zhilkay Dara-Aga family. The Kazakhs say that the father's elder brother is the father. Perhaps, behind the outer rudeness and ostentatious rigidity in the young soul, there was hidden a defensive, painfully sensitive reaction of an orphan, a boy who was early left without his dearest souls - his mother and father. The future scientist experienced himself what it’s like to make his way without support and connections. A simple rural boy graduates from the Katarkol Veterinary College and is sent by the chief livestock specialist of the Prosveshchenets collective farm in his native Aiyrtau region. Toktar's obstinate disposition manifests itself when the daring guy refuses the deferment allotted to him by law and voluntarily goes to serve in the army. The place of duty is the strategic missile forces, the notorious Kapustin Yar training ground. Then he enters the coveted metropolitan university - the Almaty Veterinary Institute, and already in the second year the capable, strong-willed student is transferred from AZVI to Moscow, to the prestigious Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in the USSR. The Kazakhs have a multi-layered, polysemantic concept “namys”, meaning honor, conscience, dignity, pride. It was during the period of study in Moscow that Yeseneev’s persistent character, fantastic will and rare sense of purpose manifested themselves: a gifted Kazakh student at the famous All-Union Academy did not waste precious time. A celebration of life - the years of youth are not for empty pleasures. Toktar is actively engaged in scientific research, successfully speaks at student conferences of the Kuban, Ashgabat, Leningrad Agricultural Institutes, and the University named after. Patrice Lumumba. After graduation, the Timiryazevka graduate is sent to Kostanay, and the career of the future scientist is consistent: department assistant, associate professor, deputy dean, dean of the faculty of the Kostanay Agricultural Institute. A true protector of his native land, a true patriot and citizen, Hero of Socialist Labor, the famous first secretary of the Kokshetau regional party committee, Erkin Nurzhanovich Auelbekov, notices the success of a talented young fellow countryman and invites him to work in Kokshetau to lead scientific research in the livestock industry. In 1977-1991 the future academician is busy directly in production: he heads a stronghold, a sector, a laboratory, a department of the Kazakh Scientific Research Technological Institute of Sheep Breeding, Kokshetau Institute of Agriculture, Eastern Branch of the All-Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The scientific research of Professor Yeseneev is extremely relevant - he created a new meat-wool breed of sheep with cross-bred wool; to raise a new type of sheep in a scientific experiment, English meat breeds were used: Lincoln, Romney-Marsh, Border-Leicester; Finnish Landrace, Australian Corridellidre. In 1991-1998 Toktar Kabdushevich was entrusted with an important post - from now on he is the general director of the scientific and educational association "Kokshetau", which included the institute, the Zerenda State Farm Technical School, the Ruzaevskaya and Stepnoishimskaya experimental agricultural stations, subordinate to the Kazakh Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The experimental farm was repeatedly encouraged by the Red Banners of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR and prizes of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee of the CPSU, leading enterprises were visited by scientists from the USA, Canada, Japan, China, Germany, and France. In 1972, the Higher Attestation Commission of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in Moscow awarded Toktar Kabdushevich the academic degree of Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, two decades later in 1992 - Doctor of Agricultural Sciences of the USSR, in 1993 the scientist received the title of professor. A scientist-breeder, geneticist, biotechnologist Yeseneev became in 2003 the owner of the highest academic title - academician of the International Academy of Science and Practice of Production Organization. The professor's legacy is 400 scientific papers, his scientific reports, which the scientist presented at the New Zealand-Soviet Symposium, many all-Union and republican conferences, were distinguished by the novelty of research thought and practically useful discoveries. Since 1996, the professor at the University named after Sh. Ualikhanov has trained six candidates of science, two doctors, and tirelessly and demandingly continued to supervise the work of graduate students, undergraduates and applicants for academic degrees. The scientist’s authority extended far beyond the borders of the republic, which was ensured by the fact that the Kazakh scientist Yeseneev was invited as the chairman of the state commission to Russian specialized universities - the Kurgan and Novosibirsk Agricultural Institutes. The scientist was also a member of the International Scientific Council for the defense of candidate and doctoral dissertations in three specialties, and on the editorial board of the scientific and production journals “Zharshy” and “Bulletin of Agricultural Science Kazakhstan”. Yeseneev’s difficult, unbending disposition was truly appreciated and noted by ordinary voters, trusting him to represent the interests of villagers in the Kokshetau regional and Zerendinsky district councils of people’s deputies. Medals “For the development of virgin and fallow lands”, badge “Veteran of Labor”, participation in the Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR, gold and silver medals of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR, “Gold Medal of the Knowledge Society” of the USSR, many certificates of honor from the Central Committee of the Komsomol, VASKhNIL, Kazakh Agricultural Academy, diplomas of the International Academy the sciences and practices of organizing production were not of particular importance to him. He confidently and uncontrollably walked forward without regard to the situation, doubting, arguing, proving, but invariably fiercely and passionately defending the village, its ordinary inhabitants, the very animal-technical sphere of the national economy of the country, region, native region. For the development of zootechnical science in the northern region of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan awarded Toktar Kabdushevich the title “Honored Worker of Science.” It was truly a fair and eminently justified decision. Energetic and active, not thinking about self-interest and not pursuing profit, the academician left valuable publications, books, brochures, textbooks, teaching aids, monographs, materials of conferences and symposiums to the library fund of the university and his native department. The candidate's and doctoral dissertations of the great scientist are carefully stored in the fund. This rich heritage is used by students, bachelors, masters, graduate students, applicants, associate professors and teachers. Another brilliant victory and bright achievement in 2008 - Toktar Kabdushevich wins the competition of the World Bank and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, winning two grants in the amount of 30 thousand US dollars under the competitive grant system “Competitiveness of Agricultural Products”. The entire amount was sent to the Assad peasant farm in the Zerenda region for the implementation of the professor’s scientific research. What is happening with the traditional cattle breeding industry for the Kazakhs? Why is the country, under all favorable conditions, unable to become a meat power, although it previously exported products? Acute problematic questions, often irritating the authorities, were repeatedly asked directly to the face by the intractable scientist to the business leaders themselves, ordinary and successful farmers. He convinced and defended the real need for state programs and powerful material support for the zootechnical industry. The scientist is right: “narrow” projects with modest financial investments are not capable of turning Kazakhstan into the largest producer of meat and dairy products. Previously, agricultural enterprises flatly refused livestock farming, but gradually mega-farms and mini-farms were created in the region, trying to process raw materials. The Patriarch called to remember ancient times, when the Kazakhs had a thousand or more sheep near each yurt, and no one forced them to multiply the Sharua flocks. Cattle satisfy the nomad in clothes, shoes, food, it is not for nothing that in past centuries there was waste-free production: milk was turned into fermented milk products, meat into meat products, wool was used for knitting products, sheepskin for a hat, outerwear, mittens, stomach - for preserving butter cow's Hardy, inventive nomads found means for quickly fermenting milk in the production of cheese, feta cheese, kurt, but today we don’t know where to sell the wool, not to mention the deep, and even better, waste-free processing of sheep products, Yeseneev lamented, citing as an example the number of livestock in Soviet state farms - 50 million sheep. Natural pastures and hayfields are suitable for the development of the industry, the scientist called from the stands of the meetings. Here is a remarkable fragment: during a trip to the villages of the region, I met the farmer Murat Moldakhmetov, whose flock numbered 600 sheep. The World Bank grant was directed to peasant farming: the farmer built a light type of shed for sheep, a hayloft, a warehouse, and purchased breeding rams. Together with Yeseneev, we balanced the diets. The project coordinator from the USA was pleased, having visited the farm and parting with advice, “now we need to grow.” However, the farmer threw up his hands: he has no funds and does not know where to get them, because agricultural funds, credit corporations, and second-tier banks do not allow novice, initiative farmers to take a cannon shot. The aksakal proposed to enlarge sheep breeding complexes with a livestock of 50-100 thousand. With confusion and bitterness from what he saw, Toktar Kabdushevich observed how livestock species are becoming smaller, productivity and live weight do not correspond to the breed standard, mass relative breeding is taking place, pastures and meadows are inevitably degrading, cattle trails have become a thing of history, a full-fledged watering hole is disappearing, and hay and straw are considered almost the main food. The foresight and insight of the livestock scientist denied the genetic productivity of imported cows, a fact that proves his correctness: more than a thousand first-calf heifers of the Holstein breed were brought to the Akmola and North Kazakhstan regions in the summer of 2007, but as time passed, no one knew, could not accurately calculate how many remained in herd, for what reason the imported breeds disappeared. The scientist rightly believed that they should not be imported at all, the breed is not for northern Kazakhstan, but when calculating the economic effect, losses could be avoided. In Holland, a cow with an annual milk yield of 10 thousand liters is respectfully called a “factory,” Toktar Kabdushevich reminded: in the West, any process associated with milk production is scientifically supported and technologically equipped. The scientist was also concerned about the significant gap between science and practice. “We write recommendations, generalize experiments, achieve laboratory results, and when it comes to mass implementation, farmers put it in reverse,” Yeseneev openly asserted, a romantic who dreamed of living to see the time when Kazakh meat would rule the roost on the export market. Toktar Kabdushevich was worried that there were no patriots of the industry left in livestock farming, citing an example: the head of the farm fired experienced milkmaids and cattle workers who dared to demand a decent salary, and hired cheap labor instead - guest workers. He fed and clothed them, but did not give them money. In retaliation, they stopped conscientiously caring for the livestock, and, as a result, livestock began to die on the farm. A life devoted to the work, the energy-consuming tireless activity of an ascetic, a calling that took away the nerves, personal time, unprecedented perseverance in protecting the interests of the industry - everything fit into the fate of a person, deep down in the soul - despite external rigidity - vulnerable, self-loving. In the cathedral office, in the auditorium, after the death of the patriarch, the hand-made stands lovingly built by him during his lifetime, colorful bright poster tables and diagrams remain untouched, clearly and clearly illustrating for students the fundamentals of that very animal science, the work of his entire life. It was as if he was trying to reach people and shout to them, even at the end of his days, that he was right, to convey the essence of the simple truth that the main duty of man in his short life on earth is not to destroy, but to create... The truth is sometimes thin, like a cobweb, but the world survives , hanging on it.
