The article considers the socio-political activities and creative heritage of Academician Saktagan Baishev from the point of independent historical knowledge. S.Baishev was recognized as a person who actively participated in the socio-political life of the country in the 30-60s of the last century. The fact that he took part in the Great Patriotic War and held a political post is quite personified in military history. He is also a person who held high positions in the field of the country’s ideology and left a deep mark on the historical events of that difficult period. His service as Vice President of the Academy of Sciences was also the most prolific of that period. The socio-political activity and creative heritage of the person, who left a creative style in Kazakh science as a historian-economist, and passed the test of time and needs to be reassessed in accordance with modern historical knowledge. In the article, these issues are analyzed on the basis of archival data, the works of the scientist and the memoirs of contemporaries, and critical conclusions are drawn.
The purpose of the article is to conduct a scientific analysis of the biographical information and creativity of academician S. Baishev on a documentary basis, as well as to evaluate the activities of a figure who served Soviet ideology with new theoretical conclusions.