(; 15 August 1930 – 29 February 1992) was a Kazakh composer. He was born (), but ran away from school and changed his name to avoid the police. He started playing music aged 17 and mainly wrote songs in a waltz style, but in 1956, he composed the music to the patriotic song My Kazakhstan.Embassy of Kazakhstan in New Delhi, India : Weekly News
It was adopted in 2006 to be the Kazakhstan national anthem by

Kazakh President Kazakh, Qazaq or Kazakhstani may refer to someone or something related to Kazakhstan: *Kazakhs, an ethnic group *Kazakh language * Kazakh alphabets, Alphabets used to write the Kazakh language * Kazakh Braille, Braille alphabet of the Kazakh lang ...

Nursultan Nazarbayev Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev (born 6 July 1940) is a Kazakhstani politician who served as the first president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. He also held the special title of Elbasy from 2010 to 2022 and chairman of the Security Council of ...

after a few modifications in the lyrics.

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1937 births 1992 deaths People from Ordabasy District Kazakhstani composers Male composers Kazakhstani musicians National anthem writers 20th-century Kazakhstani male musicians {{Kazakhstan-bio-stub