Bon in Bayanaul district, Pavlodar region, he graduated from the Leningrad Oriental Institute.
At the same time he studied at the Oriental Department of the Social Sciences Faculty of the Leningrad State University.
Over many years, Margulan headed the Coordinating Council on the ethnogenesis of Kazakhs, Scientific Council of the History, Archeology, Ethnography Institute of the Kazakh SSR Science Academy, Special Council for doctorate thesis defenses.
Georgiy Kim (1953) – member of the Council of Senators under the Senate of the Kazakh Parliament.
Born in Almaty city, he graduated from the Karaganda Higher School of the USSR Internal Affairs Ministry.
Birlik Tashimov (1964) – First Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor of Kazakhstan.