Shokan Ualikhanov was born in November in 1835.He was a Kazakh scientist , ethnographer and a historian . Shogan spent his childhood in his father's traditional yurt.His father sent him to a small private school in 1842 when he was six.He moved to his grandmother's home. Ualikhanov entered the military academy in Omsk in 1847. He read a lot of books in Russia. He travelled in Central Asia in the late 1850s.In 1856 he went to the region of Issyk Kul where he had his first successful expedition. In 1857 he went to Russia to report about the results of the expedition and there he became the member of the Russian Ceographical Society. On June 28 , 1858 , Shohan Ualikhanov began his second expedition. He had a caravan of 43 men ,101 camels and 65 horses. The caravan arrived in Kashgar in early October of 1858. During his travels he collected a lot of materials about traditions and customs of the people in the places he visited. He returned to his native steppe region because he became seriously ill in the spring of 1861.He died on April 10 , 1865 at the age of 29. His works are still popular.