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The article is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Sarkyt Elekenovich Kudaibergenov, a prominent Kazakh scientist-chemist. His career and the most significant events of his scientific life are briefly described here. The contribution of Professor S.E. Kudaibergenov to the development of physical chemistry of polymers and his participation in the internationalization of the polymer scientific school are shown.This article is devoted to the 70th anniversary of Sarkyt Elekenovich Kudaibergenov, a prominent Kazakh scientist-chemist. S.E. Kudaibergenov is an internationally recognized expert in the field of physical chemistry of polymers, Doctor of Chemical Sciences (1991), Professor (1994), Laureate of the Kazakh SSR State Prize in Science and Technology (1987).Professor S.E. Kudaibergenov is an enthusiastic person who has been inspiring his colleagues and a large number of young researchers working in the field of polymer science for several decades. His fundamental scientific works mainly devoted to the physical chemistry of hydrophilic polymers, stimulated significant progress in this field [1][2][3][4][5][6].After graduating from the Faculty of Chemistry at Kazakh State University named after Kirov (now Al-Farabi Kazakh National University) in 1973, Sarkyt Kudaibergenov remained at this university as an engineer and then as a research intern. His academic career continued at the Institute of Chemical Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Polymers led by Academician E.A. Bekturov, a distinguished chemist. A truly important milestone in the career of Professor S.E. Kudaibergenov was the work on a candidate dissertation on the topic "Hydrodynamic properties of polyelectrolytes based on vinylethylpiperidoles-4", which he successfully defended in 1980. This work anticipated his innovative research on the development of the physical chemistry of polyelectrolytes [7, 8]. Studies of polymer complexation reactions were one of the many contributions that S.E. Kudaiberegenov made for the development of polymer science.One of his first co-authored monographs "Polymer Complexes and Catalysts" describes the interaction of macromolecules with metal ions, explains the mechanisms and conditions of formation of polymer-metal complexes, which have great theoretical interest and practical application [9]. In this book the catalytic properties of some macromolecular compounds in solutions, which are models of biocatalyst-enzymes, are also described.