Kasenov Bulat Kunurovich, was born on November 9, 1946 in Karaganda. He is a specialist in the field of inorganic chemistry and physical chemistry of inorganic, organic, and natural compounds; Doctor of Chemical Sciences (1991) and a Professor (1995). He defended his PhD and doctoral dissertations, respectively, in 1981 and 1991 at the Faculty of Chemistry of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Since 1971, he has been working at the Chemical and Metallurgical Institute named after Zh. Abishev, currently - head. laboratory of thermochemical processes. He is the author of 1040 scientific papers (including more than 200 scientific articles in leading scientific journals of the USSR Academy of Sciences and RAS, translated to the USA), including 36 books and monographs, 31 USSR copyright certificates, patents and innovative patents of the Republic of Kazakhstan, patents for Utility models of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In the publishing house "LapLambert" (Germany) from 2012-2016, he co-authored 4 monographs and books. Research areas: phase equilibria and thermodynamics of arsenic-containing compounds; synthesis and thermodynamics of new complex polycrystalline and nanoscale manganites, chromites, ferrites with promising physical and physicochemical properties; thermodynamics of natural and organic compounds. He has developed a number of original methods for predicting the thermodynamic properties of chemical compounds.