Born in Guryev now Atyrau region, he graduated from the Theatre and Art Institute.
Between 1952 and 1967 and in 1988 he worked as an actor at the Auezov Kazakh State Academic Drama Theatre. From 1967 to 1988, he worked at Kazakhfilm.
Throughout his career, he starred in over 30 films.
At the All-Union Festival Sozvezdiye-90 Nurmukhan Zhanturin received an award in the nomination For Special Contribution to Acting for his role in Sultan Beibarys film.
Serik Yergizbayev (1963) – head of the Office of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of Kazakhstan.
The Uralsk city native, he is a graduate of the West Kazakhstan Agricultural Institute, Higher Komsomol School of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, Public Administration Academy of the Kazakh President, Kazakh State Law Academy.