2022-01-31 Mon

Kazakh cosmonaut Aydin Aimbetov carried an example of the 2014 50-tenge coin when he went into space in September 2015. In June 2015, Aimbetov was selected to fly on the Soyuz TMA-18M mission, becoming the third Kazakh-born cosmonaut to fly since Kazakhstan’s independence in 1991, and the first to fly under the Kazakh flag.

Aimbetov, who has been dubbed a national hero for his participation in space missions, carried with him an example of a 2014 copper-nickel 50-tenge coin honoring Shoqan Walikhanov (or Shokan Ualikhanov), a Kazakh scholar, ethnographer, and historian. An example of the coin is on display at the Aiganym Estate Museum in the homeland of Shokan Ualikhanov in Syrymbet Village.

Image Courtesy: coinworld.com