EPISTOLARY AND ITS ROLE IN SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHIES OF MONOLINGUAL AND BILINGUAL SCHOLARS

This article touches upon the issues of the current state of epistolary in Kazakhstan, the degree of its study based on the material of letters of Kazakh scientists, whose biographies reflect the peculiarities of the monolingual environment (in the family, school, etc.), and their scientific biography was formed in the conditions of Kazakh-Russian bilingualism. The paper touches on the controversial issues of the Russian and Kazakh languages as the languages of science in the period of socio-cultural and geopolitical transformations. The study of epistolary is most productive within the framework of changing scientific paradigms and the real language environment. Observing the setting of the communicative connection between the addressee and the addressee provides a full opportunity to study the author's style. The authors believe that the study of the epistolary heritage of Kazakh scholars is significant not only from the standpoint of biographical documentation, but also from the point of historiography of science – the epistolary allows you to look into the "laboratory of thought" of the scientist, reveals his ability to establish scientific contacts, as well as the degree of involvement of the person in general scientific processes.