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"Yenlik — Kebek" — a Kazakh social poem that tells of love horseman Kebek and beauty Enlik, the tragic death to which they condemned the brutal practices.

For the first time the poem entitled "the Word preserved in the memory of the Kazakhs" was published in the newspaper "Dala ualayaty" (№ 31-39) in 1892..In this embodiment, the events of the poem are covered from the people's point of view, it is characterized by compassion love and hatred of their persecutors.Despite some shortcomings in composition, language and style, the poem is valuable for the authenticity and typicality of the conflict depicted in it.In 1900, in № 46 of the newspaper "Dala ualayaty" was published another version of the poem called "the History of life of the Kazakhs", which retains the original storyline, but the characters have different names.

Social urgency, a satirical picture of the court biys interesting poem Magauiya Kunanbayev, the plot and composition close to that of the first embodiment. In 1960 it was published in the collection "Poems" in Alma-ATA.

In 1912 in Semipalatinsk the poem of Shakarim Kudaiberdiyev "Unfair punishment" in which the author gave the interpretation of the main theme of the poem "Yenlik — Kebek" was published, having emphasized historical reliability of the described events which he carried to 1780.

In 1917 M. O. Auezov wrote the tragedy "Yenlik — Kebek", which for many decades does not descend from the scenes of the Kazakh drama theaters. The tragedy consists of four acts, five acts.For the first time "Yenlik-Kebek" was staged in the village of Abay in 1917, the Director and prompter of this production was the author himself. In 1923, 1943 and 1956, the play was revised several times.If in the first versions the author criticized the intergenerational strife, in the subsequent play exposed the entire feudal-hierarchical system, acquired a high civil pathos.

In 1924, members of The Central club of KASSR of the all-Russian Union of Communist youth staged the second version of the play. It was attended by K. Yernazarov (Enlik), J. Sarsenbin (Kebek), R. Asylbekov (Yesen), J. Auezov (Karamende), S. Mukanov (Cuba), S. Baigozhin (Espembet), E. Umurzakov (Gapal) and others. In 1926 the Kazakh drama theatre (directed by S. Kozhamkulov) was opened with the play "Yenlik — Kebek".

After the production in 1933 by Director M. G. Nasonov of the next version, "Yenlik — Kebek" was staged in Semipalatinsk (1935, directed by O. Bukeev), Chimkent (1939, directed by H. Shazhenov) and other regional theaters in Kazakh, Russian, Korean.

The third version of the play was staged at the Kazakh drama theater in 1957 and was highly appreciated at the Decade of Kazakh literature and art in Moscow in 1958.