Kanysh Imantayuli Satbayev is one of the founders of Soviet metallogeny, principal advocate and the first president of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences.Satpayev was born in what is today Bayanaul District, in Pavlodar Province. Satbayev's interest in geology was sparked in childhood by Tomsk geologist Mikhail Usov. In 1921, he got admitted to Tomsk Technological Institute (now Tomsk Polytechnic University). After completing his studies in 1926, Satbayev returned to Kazakhstan and became the first qualified Kazakh mining engineer and geologist.He died in Moscow, and is buried in Almaty.Kanysh Satbayev left after himself more than 640 scientific publications. He created Institute of Geology which became the center Satpayev city in Karagandy Province is named after him, as well as the Kanysh Satbayev Canal , mineral Satbayevite, Kazakh National Technical University and numerous streets and schools in Kazakhstan. One of the main-belt asteroids was named after Satpayev.of studies of Kazakhstan mineral resources.