This year marks the 85th anniversary of the birth of the poetess Vasfiye Kipchakova. She devoted her whole life to teaching and writing poetry. The main themes of her works are love and homesickness, relationships between people, friendship. Many of her poems were published in the “Lenin Bairagy” (Lenin’s Flag) newspaper and in the “Yildyz” (The Star”) magazine. Some of her poems became songs. Vasfiye Kipchakova passed away in November 2017.