PhD, Prof. Moisey Mikhailovitch Kopylenko was born on November 25, 1920 in Odessa.

  In 1938 he entered the Department of Philology in the Odessa State University.

  When WWII started he had to break the studies and enter the artillery college. From 1942 to 1943 he was in the war and was injured twice; after that he was transferred to the reserve. The same year he entered the Department of Philology (3 year) in the Tashkent State University.

  After the war was over Moisey returned to Odessa and began working first as a teacher and then as a senior lecturer in the Odessa University. In 1957 he moved to Almaty and was assumed as senior lecturer in the Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages.

  Moisey Kopylenko was an outstanding Kazakhstan scientist; his works are well-known also in Russia, America, and other countries.

  He has founded his own research school. About 78 candidate's theses and 6 Ph.D theses were written under his supervision.

  Moisey Kopylenko was an authority in the field of linguistics and was even invited to the Parliament when the Language Act was discussed.

  Moisey's character and life are a vivid example of a real personality. He had such qualities as mercy, modesty, industry, no vanity, and amicability.

  Moisey Kopylenko kept on working till his last day. He passed away on December 18, 1997.

Irina Kopylenko