Series of 5 coins dedicated to 150th anniversary of Abay Kunanbayev, issued in 1995. Abay Kunanbayev is considered to be the initiator of new Kazakh literature. Great thinker, incomparable master of words, composer, ardent educator, he was a genius of his time, an outstanding personality in the social life and literature of Kazakhstan in the last century. His literary heritage is the national pride of Kazakh nation. It comprises the culture of contemporaries as its integral part.