Kaidarov Malik Uysovich. Painter. Member of the Artists Union of Kazakhstan since 2007. Born in 1964 in Kyzylorda region. In 1988 he entered Almaty Art School named after Gogol (modern Almaty College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after Oral Tansykbaev). He was educated at the Moscow State Academic Institute named after V. I. Surikov. Now M. Kaidarov teaches at the Department of Academic Painting at the Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abay.