A meeting of the Inspiration student poetry club members took place in the Scientific Library named after S. Beysembayev and was devoted to the 135th birthday anniversary of Pavel Bazhov, a famous writer and folklorist, and the 245th birthday anniversary of Ivan Krylov, a prominent poet and fabulist.

The meeting was held in the form of an oral magazine, the pages of which contained information about the lives and families of these famous literary figures, as well as the stages of their work.

Pavel Bazhov is a Russian and Soviet writer and folklorist, who was the first to perform a literary adaptation of Ural tales. A book exhibition entitled “The Enchanter of Malachite Stories” was dedicated to the birthday anniversary of the famous writer and held in the imaginative literature section of the University library.

Pavlodar State University students are not indifferent to the legacy of Pavel Bazhov. Aydana Pazylova and Aida Yedilzhanova are permanent members of the Inspiration poetry club. They say that they take books everywhere they go. Books help them understand difficult things and solve life's most important problems. ‘Books have become our faithful and reliable friends in difficult times, they can help in any situation’, says Albina Abdullina, a student of the Department of Russian Philology.

Students also held a theatrical performance based on Ivan Krylov's fables. The guests of the event saw “The Dragonfly and the Ant” (by Aygerim Kozkina and Natalya Kosenkova), “The Mirror and the Monkey” (Lidiya Chapanova and Albina Abdullina), “The Lion and the Leopard” (Aydana Pazylova and Rustam Nigmatullin). Krylov's fables are now translated into 60 languages.

At the end of the event Yelena Likhanova, a member of the Scientific Library named after S. Beysembayev, noted that the role of literature is to help people understand themselves and the world, awaken their aspiration for the truth, happiness, and teach them to respect the past. 'Maksim Gorkiy once said that books help overcome confusion of thoughts, feelings, events, they inspire the mind and heart with a feeling of love to the world and other people. And this is absolutely true. Sometimes a book provides a person with the kind of food for thought that can turn this person's world upside down and make him or her rethink one's values in life', said Yelena Likhanova.