Almaty, Dostyk Avenue, monument dedicated to Jambyl Jabayev

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Jambyl Jabayev (Kazakh: Жамбыл Жабаев) (28 February 1846 — 22 June 1945) was a Kazakh traditional folksinger (Kazakh: akyn).

Many patriotic, pro-revolution and pro-Stalin poems and songs were attributed to Jambyl in the 1930s and were widely circulated in the Soviet Union.

The Kazakh city of Taraz was named after Jambyl from 1938 to 1997. Jambyl Province, in which Taraz is located, still bears his name.

It has been claimed that the actual authors of published poems of Jambyl were Russian poets, officially a "translators."

Poet Andrey Ignatievich Aldan-Semenov claimed that "creator" of Jambyl it was he who, when in 1934, was given the task of the party to find some akyn. Jambyl found them on the recommendation of the collective farm chairman, the criterion of choice was poor and many childrens and grandchildrens. Poems written for him Aldan-Semenov, after his arrest in the same business to include other "translators".

According to the Kazakh journalist Erbol Kurnmanbaev, "Jambyl was a akyn of his clan shaprashty, but until 1936 no information of his greatness was not." In 1936, a young talented poet Abilda Tazhibaev found of he. He did it as directed by the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Levon Mirzoyan, who wanted to find "By the first decade of Kazakhstan in Moscow, the akyn, same old, as Suleiman Stalsky (Dagestani poet)." Tazhibaev published under the Jambyl's name poem "My Country." It was translated into Russian poet Pavel Kuznetsov, published in the newspaper "Pravda" and was a success. Since then, under the Jambyl's name worked the group of his "secretaries" - the young Kazakh poets which, according to Eugeny Witkowski, in 1941-1943. joined the Russian poet Mark Tarlovsky.

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