From the Sea to the Earth: 60 Years, One Course
Not everyone who works in geology started there. Geology has a way of finding people on its own. What matters is that the person knows how to hold a course.
Baglan Kairbekov held his first course in the Pacific Ocean. 1984–1987, the Red Banner Pacific Fleet, the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser Novorossiysk. Open ocean, thousands of miles from home, serving aboard one of the largest warships in the Soviet Navy. The kind of experience you never forget — and that never leaves you unchanged.
After the fleet came the earth. He graduated with honours in mine surveying from the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute in 1994. Then decades of practice, international training courses in the United Kingdom, and complex projects across Kazakhstan. A man who understands what true depth means — in the ocean and underground.
Recently, we at Minerals Operating celebrated Baglan's 60th birthday.
In our industry, we tend to measure a career in core samples and drill metres. But sometimes behind a specialist lies a very different kind of distance. The Pacific, the deck of an aircraft carrier, years given to service. All of it eventually becomes part of who you are professionally — that steadiness, that composure, that no university can teach.
Geology brought us all together in different ways. Baglan came from the sea. And we are glad he did.
Happy birthday, Bake. Course held.
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