Kodarov Karasai (1898 – 1935)
Karasai Kodarov is an activist of the Alash Orda of the Western Branch, a people’s teacher.
Kodarov was born in the Tashchagyl district of Karakol volost of Guryevsky uyezd in 1898. In 1906 he graduated from the Karakol one-year Russian-Kazakh school. In 1908 he graduated from the two-year Russian-Kazakh school of Romanov. In 1914-1915 he studied at the Orenburg Russian-Kazakh Teacher’s School, which he excellent graduated . After graduation from the teacher’s school he worked in Altykarasuy volost school of Aktobe uyezd. In 1918 he took part in the IV Ural Regional Congress of Kazakhs. At first K. Kodarov was the member of Wil government, and later he was in the Western branch of the government of Alash Orda and he worked in administrative activities in the volost, uyezd and oblast departments of the Zemstvo and in the departments of education. After the break-up of the Western branch of the Alash Orda government, Kodarov worked in the Orenburg department of public education under Kazakh Revolution Committee. In 1920-1921 he worked as a member of the commission of the Kazakh department of public education. In 1922 he returned to his homeland and and he managed the Karakol School. In 1920-1930 K.Kodarov was the head of the Zhympitin Executive Committee of the Department of Public Education, the Department of Public Education of the Guriev okrug, the Urals Oblast Department of Public Education.
Kodarov Karasai died in the city of Chapaev of the West Kazakhstan region in 1935.