Togolok Moldo

He was born at Kurtka, in what is now the Ak-Talaa district of Kyrgyzstan's Naryn region, into a peasant family; the Russian article notes that some data give his birth day as 17 June rather than 10 June ^{1 2}. His father Abdyrahman knew Kyrgyz lyric poetry and performed before the people. From the age of nine Bayymbet was taught literacy by the village mullah and attended the local Muslim school; at fourteen, orphaned of his father, he was raised by his grandfather's brother Muzooke, a well-known akyn and komuz player, and after Muzooke's death the impoverished family moved to Jumgal and hired itself out as labourers ².

A version of Semetey, the second part of the Manas cycle, of about 2,050 lines was recorded from his performance by Kayum Miftakov in 1922; his own later written version of Manas was published in 2013, and a manuscript genealogy, his Sanjira, was edited and published in 2009 ¹. His children's stories, Baldar jomoktoru, appeared in 1939. He joined the Writers' Union of the USSR in 1938, took part in the first decade of Kyrgyz art and literature in Moscow in 1939, and was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour ².

He died on 4 January 1942 in the Naryn region and is buried near the village named after him in Ak-Talaa district ^{1 3}. His portrait appears on the Kyrgyz 20 som banknote and on Kyrgyz and Soviet stamps ¹.

No source read names Togolok Moldo's religion or any school for him: none of the four articles carries a religion field, no text states an affiliation, and Wikidata has no religion value for him at all ^{1 2 4}. The schooling of his boyhood — literacy from a mullah, lessons at the village Muslim school — is the formation of a child in a Muslim milieu, not an attestation. His faith segment is therefore recorded as unknown, unflagged.

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