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In issue №37 of the newspaper “Qazaq adebieti” dated September 7, 1973, the following announcement was published: “On September 9, at 11 a.m., in the large conference hall of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, a meeting dedicated to the great thinker of the East, Abu Nasr al-Farabi, will be opened. It will be organized by the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR and the Soviet Committee for holding the V International Conference of Writers of Asia and Africa. Special reports about the great scholar will be presented at the meeting, and conference delegates will speak.”

In the same issue of the newspaper, an article by Erkebolat Bekmukhametov and Sadyk Kassimanov titled “The Scholar’s Worldview” was published. The authors conclude: “His immortal works and enduring name are remembered by the peoples of the entire world even after a thousand years. This is a great celebration for the peoples of the multinational Soviet Union, including the Kazakh land, the birthplace of Farabi.” At that time, the editor-in-chief of “Қазақ әдебиеті” was Syrbay Maulenov.

Also, in that issue, an image of Farabi by the artist Sakhi Romanov, now forgotten, was published. Information about this was found in issue №213 of the newspaper “Kazakhstanskaya Pravda” dated September 11. In a short informational material titled “A Pictorial Review of al-Farabi,” the author A. Sabirov writes that this image of al-Farabi was created by the artist Sakhi Romanov with significant assistance from Akzhan Mashanov. Sakhi Romanov spent two years working on this piece. For this work, he visited the birthplace of al-Farabi, Otyrar, several times. In the same issue of the publication, a large article titled “Day of Remembrance of the Great Thinker” was also published.

The main article of issue №38 of “Qazaq adebieti” dated Friday, September 14, 1973, was published under the title “Day of Remembrance of the Great Thinker.” The source of the article is indicated as KazTAG. It should be noted that articles under this title were also published as leading articles in the newspapers “Kazakhstanskaya Pravda” (September 11, №213, under the title “Day of Remembrance of the Great Thinker”), “Sotsialistik Kazakhstan” (No. 213, September 11, 1973), and “Leninshil zhas” (№179, September 11, 1973).

“In the large conference hall of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, on September 9, a meeting of academy scholars and participants of the V Conference of Writers of Asia and Africa took place. It was dedicated to the remembrance of the great scholar of the East, Abu Nasr al-Farabi,” it is written.

In the article “Precious Heritage” published in issue № 39 of “Qazaq adebieti” in 1973, Babajan Gafurov writes: “In philosophy, the place of al-Farabi is exceptional. He purified Aristotle’s philosophy from various mystical additions and further developed it. More than 1100 years have passed since the birth of the great scholar al-Farabi. Nevertheless, we regard him as our contemporary. In doing so, we see in his entire life and work a remarkable humanist, a herald of friendship among people, and a great evaluator and inheritor of science and human intellect”.

“91��ý is a great thinker and humanist. He made a comprehensive and fruitful contribution to culture and science. The struggle for the freedom of the human spirit and the noble principles of humanism, and for the spiritual enlightenment of humanity, is the main essence of al-Farabi’s творчество,” said Abdimalik Kassymzhanov, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, in his report at the meeting.

On September 9, 1975, an international scientific conference dedicated to the 1100th anniversary of Abu Nasr al-Farabi was held in Moscow. This was reported by the newspaper “Sotsialistik Kazakhstan” in issue №212 dated September 11, 1975.

In the reports and speeches of Soviet and foreign scholars, al-Farabi’s contribution to world civilization, his philosophical, socio-political, ethical, and aesthetic views, as well as his natural scientific and mathematical heritage were presented. The celebrations dedicated to al-Farabi continued in Almaty from September 11 to 13 of that year.

In issue №179 of the newspaper “Leninshil zhas” in 1975, Anuar Alimzhanov in his article “The Scholar” writes: “Now the ancient caravan routes have been forgotten, transport and state borders are different. A different time, a different life. My journey following the traces of al-Farabi was also formed differently”, sharing his memories of traveling along the path of the great thinker.