Writers of East Kazakhstan
Gorbachev Nikolai Andreevich (1923 - 2000) - writer, was born on September 13, 1923 in the village. Balgyn Katon-Karagai region East Kazakhstan region , in a family of immigrants. The future writer lived in our area for only seven years, but the tenacious childhood memory will forever preserve the expanses of fields, mountains, and Kazakh nomads.
The first book of the writer - "Return", was published in 1961. The trilogy "White Waters" (novels "Bergals", "Lead", "Mortals") is dedicated to the feat of the workers of Ore Altai during the Great Patriotic War. For romance
about the home front workers of the Rudny Altai "White Waters" (1984) Gorbachev received the prize of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and the Union of Writers of the USSR, which he donated to the fund for the construction of a school in his native village. Balgyn. Nikolai Andreevich is an honorary citizen of the city of Ridder and Katon-Karagai region East Kazakhstan region .