Zhambyl Zhabayev – the name of this glorified akyn, the author of hundreds the poetic works being bright samples of the Kazakh literary creativity, is known today far outside Kazakhstan. "The dog by Kadyrbaya", "The black decree", "The poem of angry heart", "The armed people", "A lullaby the song" and, certainly, "Leningrad residents, my children" is only short list of that art and publicistic heritage, left to descendants the outstanding improvisator.
As it is known Zhambyl Zhabayev finished the course of life on June 22, 1945 – without having lived some months to a centenary. Two years of later, the decision of the authorities of that time, in the house where from 1936 to 1945 the akyn lived, created a literary and memorial museum.
Zhambyl Zhabayev's museum complex settles down in 70 km from Almaty, in the settlement with the symbolical name "Zhambyl's Museum". The complex includes: house once belonging to the poet, garage and garden, and also one office building. Besides, in the territory of a museum complex, namely – in the depth of a garden (in due time the poet grew up it with own hand) there is Z.Zhabayev designed by architect A.Belotserkovskim on sketches of the national artist of Kazakhstan of Abilkhan Kasteev's the mausoleum. The mausoleum is executed from white marble.
On assurance of visitors, of a house museum of the akyn the special, pacified atmosphere reigns. Diligence of inspectors here kept practically in original state a set of the things belonging to the owner.
As a whole, it is possible to tell that the house museum is the evident characteristic not only Zhambyl's vital way, but also as a whole an era in which the poet lived and created.
Annually in birthday of the akyn (on February 28) the literary and memorial museum is visited by hundreds admirers of creativity of Zhambyl to pay a tribute of respect to unsurpassed talent of the great improvisator.
It should be noted that in the settlement "Zhambyl's Museum", besides the author of the lines "… I under a roar of my string sang, having already turned gray, a terrible course of the Baltic wave where the national anger raged …", one more nice son of the Kazakh people – the composer, the conductor, Nurgis Tlendiyev's dombrist is buried. On memoirs of contemporaries, the request to bury it near Zhambyl's mausoleum was Nurgisa Atabayevich's last will, rested in 1998.
Thus, now in the settlement "Zhambyl's Museum" besides a literary and memorial museum and the marble mausoleum of "the centenary akyn", the grave and Nurgisa Tlendiyev's memorial settles down.
