Aaly Tokombaev (Kyrgyz: ???? ?????????, Aali Toqombayev, ???? ??????????) was born on November 7, 1904, in Kyrgyzstan in the village of Chon-Kemin, which is known as Kemin Raion.
Tokombaev was a poet, composer, and a famous novelist who greatly influenced the Kyrgyz nation.
In 1927 he graduated from the Middle Asian Community University (presently National University of Uzbekistan, in Tashkent.
After graduation, he fully devoted himself to Soviet Kyrgyz literature.In the following years of 1927 through 1940 he began to write a collection of poems.
Tokombaev published the collections Lenin (1927), Flowers of Labor (1932), and Early Poems (1934) and the novellas The Dnieper Empties into the Deep Sea (1939) and The Wounded Heart (1940).
Throughout the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) he wrote patriotic and narrative poems through which he expressed his opinions, ideas, and beliefs.
In his time Kyrgyzstan was the scene of a struggle between tsarism and Soviet rule.
He wrote such novels as Before the Dawn, Part 1; Bloody Years (1935); Before the Dawn, Part 2 (1947).
Through those books he expressed opinions on the unfair rule and treatment of the Kyrgyz people.
He died in 1988.