In the period from 1973 to 1992, the ZHAMBYL HYDROMELIORATIVE-CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTE was headed by the academician, Doctor of Technical Sciences MARS FAZYLOVICH URKUMBAEV. (He assumed the post of rector at the age of 33 and was the youngest head of a higher educational institution in the Union). With his arrival, a qualitatively new stage began in the activities of the university. New specialties in demand in agriculture, economics, irrigation and drainage, and construction have opened.

“In the 1973-1974 academic year, about 3,500 children studied at the full-time department, they were mainly guys,” M. Urkumbaev later recalled. - We tried to give students not only good knowledge, but also to instill in them a culture and spiritual values. Particular attention was paid to the development of sports. It was during these years that we discovered Serik Konakbaev, Sergey Gromov, Almas Musabekov for the country. If at first only 30-40 people were engaged in the boxing section, then after Serik Konakbaev won the World Cup in New York and became the silver medalist of the Moscow Olympics, up to 1400 people began to attend the section. A significant event was the opening of the faculty “Economics of Water Management”, which girls began to enter. Young people fell in love and fastened their feelings with the bonds of matrimony. For family students, we built a hostel number 3 ".

In those years, students not only studied, but also took part in the construction and arrangement of their own university. Under the slogan “Do it yourself with your own institution”, they built new educational buildings and dormitories, converted the chemical fertilizer warehouse into a modern laboratory, and improved the site for the military department. Thus, a whole educational campus was created, which later became known as the “Hydrocomplex”.

In 1992, the corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Technical Sciences ZHUNISBEK TASHIRBAEVICH SULEYMENOV was appointed the rector of the ZHAMBYL HYDROMELIORATIVE-CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTE.

Under the leadership of Zh. Suleimenov, the Institute established contacts with scientists from the United States and Germany, and developed several scientific projects. One of the very first institutes in Kazakhstan created the Council of Scientists. The dissertation was defended at the institute in the specialties "Water Management", "Hydraulics", etc.

In 1996, a new educational institution appeared in the regional center - ZHAMBYL UNIVERSITY.

The rector of the university was appointed Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Technical Sciences UALIKHAN KOZYKEEVICH BISHIMBAYEV.

In November of the same year, the university was named after the historian, philosopher and statesman Mohammed Haidar Dulaty.

M.Kh. DULATY TARSU was established on March 24, 1998 on the basis of three higher educational institutions: the Zhambyl University, the Zhambyl Irrigation and Reclamation Institute, and the Zhambyl Technological Institute of the Light and Food Industries.

Until 2001, the university was headed by UALIKHAN KOZYKEEVICH BISHIMBAYEV. It was a period of spiritual growth of the university. Annually, Dulaty readings began with the participation of scientists from near and far abroad. A handful of land was delivered to Taraz from the grave of a glorious ancestor, which was placed at the base of his monument, installed in front of the main building of TarSU. A university museum was opened. About 1,500 exhibits were installed in it.

Since 2001,  M.Kh. Dulaty Taraz State University was led by a doctor of law, professor ABDIMANAP ELIKBAEVICH BECTURGANOV.

The university has strengthened ties with scientific and educational centers of near and far abroad.

One of the first in the country in TarSU was introduced a credit training system. New educational structures were formed. At 8 faculties, students studied in 58 specialties.

In the period from 2008 to 2012, M.Kh. Dulaty Taraz State University was headed by ASHIMZHAN SULEYMENOVICH AHMETOV.

A new stage in the development of the university has begun. The university employed 530 teachers, including 28 - doctors of sciences, professors, 206 - candidates of sciences and associate professors. A multi-stage training system is being introduced - undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and PhD doctoral programs. In order to intensify educational and scientific activity, new services and divisions were opened: educational-methodical management, registration office, center for new information technologies, research department, scientific library, printing house, sports club, etc.

The university has become a consulting center for higher educational institutions of the republic on the introduction of a credit system of education.

In 2005, the university was awarded a certificate of compliance with international quality standards. The university has implemented an ISO-9001 management system that meets international standards.

For its half-century history, M.Kh. Dulaty Taraz State University rightfully became a leading university in the Zhambyl region.

Since 2012, M.Kh. Dulaty Taraz State University is headed by Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Chairman of the Council of Rectors of the Southern Region MAKHMETGALI NURGALIEVICH SARYBEKOV.

Under the leadership of Makhmetgali Sarybekov, work in all directions was intensified at the university. The emphasis is on international cooperation, educational, scientific and innovative activities, the implementation of three-level education, and the training of highly qualified specialists. The university has a strong faculty team. This is evidenced by the fact that every year the number of winners of the competition and holders of the grant "The best teacher of the university" is growing: 2014 - 3 people, 2015 - 4 people, 2016 - 5 people, 2017 - 7 people , 2018 - 8 people. In 2018, on the basis of the signed agreements, 23 university teachers underwent internships at leading universities and institutes of countries near and far abroad, 136 teachers passed advanced training courses at central research institutes and universities of the republic. The university team is working on the development of educational programs. Modern educational trends require the active use of innovative educational technologies. In this regard, in some departments, existing or created new educational and scientific laboratories were modernized in accordance with updated educational programs. In the framework of international cooperation, only in the last academic year 12 agreements were signed with the universities of Poland, South Korea, Aremenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Belarus and Hungary. Over the years, together with the Lublin Polytechnic University (Poland), on mutually beneficial terms of the agreement, the university successfully implements the joint bachelor's program “Mechatronics”. Also in 2018, the implementation of two joint double-degree educational programs of the 6M060600- Chemistry and 6M070300- Information Systems graduate programs with a foreign partner, the Braganza Polytechnic Institute (Portugal), was launched. Since 2013, the university has been systematically working to form an effective system of multilingual education. The dynamics is growing: in 2013 4 special departments were opened, in 2014 - 5 and in 2015–8, and in 2016 - 10, in 2017 - 13. Last year, 324 students of 16 specialties were already involved. To date, multilingual education is being implemented in 18 undergraduate specialties. Thanks to systemic work, M.Kh. Dulaty Taraz State University is an educational, scientific and innovative in the economic, social and cultural life of our country and region.

MOKHAMMED KHAYDAR DULATY (1499–1551) One of the prominent sons of the Kazakh people, forgotten during the totalitarian system, is Muhammad Khaidar Dulaty, who lived and worked in a difficult era. The full name of Dulaty was Myrza Muhammad Haidar Bon Muhammad Husain Douglat Koregen.

Muhammad Khaidar Dulaty was born in 1499 in Tashkent, died in 1551 in the Kashmir region in India. The famous historian, writer. Known in the literature as Khaidar Myrza, Myrza Khaidar. Muhammad Khaidar Dulaty is the author of the dhan "Jahan-name", which is included in the historical guide to Mogulistan and its border areas - "Tarihi Rashidi." The ancestors of Mohammed Haidar Dulaty were prominent political figures in the territory of southeastern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and East Turkestan, which was part of the state of Mogulistan. They held the posts of ulusbeks, tarhans and managed their hereditary possession - Manglai-Suben. Amir Polatshy (Puladchi) dulat during the collapse of the Chagatai state in the middle of the 15th century appointed Tugylyk Timur as khan of the eastern part of this state. Another ancestor of Mohammed Haidar Dulaty - Amir Khudaydat - when he was an ulusbek, replaced six khans on the Mughal throne.

The grandfather of Mohammed Khaidar Dulaty - Myrza Mohammed Khaidar ruled Kashgar until 1480, his father Mohammed Khusain was one of the associates of Khan Sultan Mahmud, who ruled the eastern part of Mogolistan in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The mother of Muhammad Haidar Dulati, Khansha Khubnigar, was the daughter of Zhunis Khan, who, in turn, was the cousin of Sultan Said and the founder of the Mughal dynasty, Zahar ad-din Muhammad Babur, who ruled India.

Muhammad Haidar Dulaty’s childhood dates back to the time of the decline of the state of the Timur dynasty in Central Asia, which occurred under pressure from the Uzbek nomads Muhammad Sheybani, the collapse of Mogulistan and the rise of the Kazakh Khanate. After the death of his father, during the war between Khan Sultan Mahmoud and Khan Muhammad Sheybani, relatives of Muhammad Haidar Dulaty sent him to Kabul to Babur. Muhammad Khaidar Dulaty participated in the campaign organized by Babur on Maverannahr. Since 1512, Mohammed Khaidar Dulaty, being in the palace of Khan Sultan Said in Kashgar, held prominent military and other court posts. He took part in the war with Abu Bakr over Kashgar and Zharkent in 1514, as well as in military campaigns in Kyrgyzstan, southeastern Kazakhstan and Tibet. Mohammed Khaidar Dulaty raised the heir to the khan’s throne - Abu ar-Rashid Sultan.

According to Babur, Muhammad Khaidar Dulaty possessed encyclopedic knowledge. He was aware of all political events, knew politicians. Muhammad Khaidar Dulaty was a good connoisseur of the history of Kazakhstan and Central Asia, Mogulistan, especially the feudal part of the Dulat tribe. In 1541-1546, in Kashmir, he wrote Tarih-i Rashidi (The History of Rashid).

Mohammed Khaidar Dulaty wrote this work in Persian, drawing on the generations of past tales of the Dulat, legends of the Moguls, secret documents preserved in the palaces of the Mogul khans, eyewitness accounts and his observations. The author also used the historical works of such famous scholars of the past as Zhuweini, Jamal Karashi, Rashid al-Din, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, Abd ar-Razak Samarkani and others. All this allows us to characterize this work as a historical reference based on clear archival data. Muhammad Khaidar Dulaty left very valuable information regarding the medieval history of the Kazakhs.

Tarih-i Rashidi contains a lot of information about the formation of the Kazakh Khanate, about further events in Zhetysu and East Desht-i-Kypchak, the fall of Mogulistan, feudal wars, the establishment of friendly alliances between Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the fight against the external enemy. The work also has a lot of valuable data on the socio-economic situation of South and East Kazakhstan in the XV-XVI centuries, on the historical geography of the medieval Kazakhstani Zhetysu, urban and agricultural culture of the Kazakhs.

“Tarih-i Rashidi” consists of two notebooks. The first describes in detail the history of the rulers of Mogolistan - the khans from the Chagatai dynasty. The second notebook is composed in the form of memoirs, it refers to historical events until the conquest of Mirza Mohammed Khaidar (grandfather of Dulat) of Kashgar. It also tells about the struggle of the Sultan Said Khan for power in Mogolistan, about the conquest of the lands of the Dulat tribe and the creation of the Mogolistan in 1541, about the desire of the Chagatai dynasty to return the former possessions of the Mogolistan - Zhetysu and Tien Shan, about the relationship of the Mogul khans with the Chagatai dynasty and the Kazakh . “Tarih-i Rashidi” also covers historical events that took place in the XV-XVI centuries in Central Asia, East Turkestan, Afghanistan, India. Today, the versions of Tarih-i Rashidi translated into Persian and Turkish are stored in St. Petersburg, Tashkent, Dushanbe

Abu ar-Rashid, who again sat on the throne in 1533, fearing his fellow tribesmen, began to pursue them. Muhammad Haidar Dulaty's cousin, Said Muhammad, killed Dulat, after which Muhammad Haidar Dulaty fled to India. There he led the warriors in the palace of the Mughals.

Muhammad Khaidar Dulaty died in 1551 during an uprising of local residents.

Kazakhstan began to pay great attention to Dulaty after the Republic of Kazakhstan gained independence. A special conference was held to mark its 500th anniversary under the auspices of UNESCO. The life of Muhammad Haidar Dulaty and his work deserves a more in-depth study, and knowledge about him is widely disseminated among people.

Almost five centuries later, the great scientist, writer, poet, statesman and military leader Mohammed Khaidar Dulaty returned to us (1499-1551). Finally, we got the opportunity to draw rich information from his unique historical work “Tarih-i-Rashidi”, a source of objective information about Central Asia. He also wrote the Turkic poetic treatise on geography "Jahan-name." But the example of scientific and artistic composition remains his work “Tarih-i-Rashidi”, where “Rashidi” means “following the true creed,” “he is on the right track.”