175th anniversary of Zhambyl Zhabayev

This year, Kazakhstan celebrates the 175th anniversary of the birth of the famous Kazakh poet Zhambyl Zhabayev (1846-1945).

Zhambyl Zhabayev is an improviser poet, a wise storyteller, a master of epic words. Zhambyl's poetry is inextricably linked with music, with song.

Zhambyl managed not only to fully master the traditions of singer-storytellers, but also to open new facets of the ancient Kazakh art of improvisation, to give them a greater imaginative content.

In his poetic work, Zhambyl very accurately captured and expressed the fateful moments of the history of his people.

Zhambyl is an internationalist poet who did not divide people into races and nations. Zhambyl's poems are like pearls scattered on the seabed. «It is the civic duty each of us to collect it and hand over to the people», Kazakh writer Saken Seifullin said.

The highly moral, spiritual and patriotic heritage of Zhambyl will always be with the people.

Zhambyl's creativity is in much needed today and arouses genuine wide interest in today's rapidly changing world.

Zhambyl is the author of hundreds of poetic works, which are bright examples of Kazakh literary creativity. The works of the famous poet-improviser have been translated into many foreign languages, published in a plenty of the world of countries.