The article analyzes the works of the writer Bolat Kanatbayev "Forty days of July", "Wind from the sea", which left a valuable legacy, although he left the world of literature early, from an artistic, thematic and ideological point of view. It is said that the author skillfully uses such methods as dialogue, characterization, landscape, which he uses to make the problem understandable to the reader. At the same time, for the first time in the history of Kazakh literature, the writer reveals the fate of the oilmen, their difficult and complicated life. The author raises the ecological threat to the Kazakh land through the tragic fate of oil workers and the need to prevent it. One of the units that make up the writer's own style is the peculiarity of the character, which is reflected in the concrete images, the ways in which they are created.