If a nation does not know its history, if the country loses its history, then its citizens have nowhere to go.
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Today in history

23 years ago was the first international symposium on "Music of the Turkic peoples"

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Birthday of Yerkegali Rakhmadiyev, composer and People's Artist of the USSR

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Birthday of Yerkegali Rakhmadiyev, composer and People's Artist of the USSR - e-history.kz
Yerkegali Rakhmadiyev — composer, People’s Artist of the USSR, laureate of the State Prize of the KazSSR. He was born on August 1, 1932 in Semipalatinsk region. During different periods of his life he was the head of the State Conservatory and the Minister of Culture of the Republic. Yerkegali Rakhmadiyev is the author of six operas. The best known of them are “Kamar-sulu”, “Alpamys” and “Abylai Khan”. The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev expressed his condolences to Rakhmadiyev’s family.