Akmola Region
Altynshash Jaganova (Kazakh: "Жағанова Алтыншаш Қайыржанқызы"), born 29 December 1943, Astrakhan District, Akmola Region, Kazakh SSR is a novelist, journalist, playwright, public activist, former Soviet and Kazakh politician. Since 1988, editor-in-chief of the journal "Kazakhstan Ayelderi". Honored Figure of Kazakhstan (2000).