Ospanov, Kanafiya Buzhinovich

Kanfiya (Mukhammed) Buzhinovich Ospanov was born November 23, 1941 in the village of Kara-Utkel in Kokshetau pronvince. From 1964-1967, he studied at the Almaty Art School, and in 1972, he graduated from the art department of the Moscow Technological Institute.
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Ospanov’s one surviving mosaic in Almaty, at KIMEP University, was made shortly after Kazakhstan’s independence. Another work, a mural at the sanitation and epidemiology station, was destroyed.

Elsewhere in Kazakhstan, Ospanov completed a relief at the Kumai Sovkhoz in Kostanai province (1973), a mosaic at the Glavrissovkhozstroi building in Chardara (1975), a relief at the entrance to Yermak (Aksu) in Pavlodar province (1980), a mosaic at the Maikotov House of Culture in former Turgai province (1981) and a relief at the Turksib House of Culture in Taraz.  

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