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

Today in history

In 1959 a model of rocket "Vostok-L" was successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome

In 2006 the second Congress of World and Traditional Religions was held in Astana

In 1998 the Museum House of A. Baitursynov was opened in Almaty

Kazakh Cinema Day

In 2006 the first Russian edition of "Divan Lugat-Turk" by Mahmud Kashgari was presented

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Birthday of Boris Erzakovich, the Kazakh musicologist and composer

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Birthday of Boris Erzakovich, the Kazakh musicologist and composer - e-history.kz
Boris Girshovich was the Kazakh musicologist, composer, member of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan (1957), Honored Artist of Kazakhstan (1945), the Kazakh folk music collector and author of works on the Kazakh music. Since 1931 he collected Kazakh folk music, recorded about 2,500 songs. Boris Girshovich published collections of «the Popular songs of Kazakhstan» (1955), «Kazakh Soviet folk songs» (1959), collections of folk singers-composers Birjan, Mukhit, Zhayau Musy, Abay (1967–1970). His musicological writings and articles devoted to the history of musical culture Kazakhstan. As a composer he wrote pieces for orchestra: Overture on Kazakh Themes (1936), the poem «Tulegen Tohtarov» (1944); two string quartets (1937, 1948); Piano — Variation on folk theme «Yapuray» (1945), Sonata (1947), «Little musician» (20 plays on Kazakh theme, 1960); collection of choirs, songs, ballads, folk processing Kazakh songs.