I want to dedicate an essay to my grandfather Isakhan Aktanovich.
My grandfather is a role model for me and an example for all the younger generations. Having started his career as a locksmith, he went through the entire career path of an energy engineer to the managing director of a thermal power plant, and I am sure he will not stop and climb higher up the career ladder.

My grandfather was born on June 14, 1960 in the village of Kordai in the Dzhambul region in a family of employees – his mother was a teacher, his father worked as a veterinarian. There were three children in the family and my grandfather was the youngest. He studied well at school, especially loved geography and mathematics, engaged in boxing and wrestling outside of school hours, became a candidate for master of sports, also loved to play football, won prizes in district and regional competitions. Probably, this determined in him such character traits as determination, perseverance and leadership, which allowed him to achieve his goals in the future, clearly set goals for himself and persistently, no matter what, go to them.
Unfortunately, when my grandfather was 16 years old, his father died, and my mother had to put three children on their feet alone, probably at this difficult moment for the family, my grandfather became more sensitive and demanding, first of all to himself, which in the future forced him to set high ambitious goals for himself, which he aspired to.
After graduating from the Almaty Energy Institute in 1982, he was hired at the Almaty CHP-2 as a boiler shop mechanic and went all the way to the chief engineer of CHP-2. Every step up the career ladder was associated with incredible efforts and required enormous efficiency and responsibility, just at that moment he got married, and he had three children and he worked two jobs and it required superhuman efforts and tension from him.
In 2007, he became the managing director of CHP-1, before that, throughout his career in the energy sector, he was repeatedly awarded honorary titles and diplomas. In 1984, he was awarded the title of “Striker of Socialist Labor”, in 1985 he was awarded a Certificate of Honor from Almaty TPP-2 in honor of the 68th anniversary of labor, in 2001 he was awarded a Certificate of Honor from JSC APK in honor of Energy Day and commemoration
On the 10th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in 2008 he was awarded the Diploma of the Akim of Almaty, in 2009 he was awarded the title “Honored Power Engineer of the CIS”, in 2013 he was awarded the title “Honored Power Engineer of the KEA” (Kazakhstan Energy Association).
I believe that if there are more and more hardworking, responsible, ambitious and honest people like my grandfather in our Republic, then we will be able to enter the top 50 competitive countries in the world and become a country worthy of imitation.
I am proud of my grandfather and I want to grow up and be like him, achieve and surpass his achievements. For this, I now have to study perfectly and learn languages. In the 1st grade, at the end of the year, I was recognized as the “Breakthrough of 2012” according to the results of exams and the end of the school year, in 2013 I took second place in the Republican karate – kyokushin competitions held in Shymkent. And this is just the beginning……

Amir ZHANBYRBAI,
3rd grade student,
general education school
named after M.Makataev.
Photo from the family archive.
Almaty