NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM Today s Birthdays is the one-stop shop where you can learn about prominent Kazakhstani people who were born on the 28th of May, Kazinform reports.
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Ilya Zhakanov (1936) – composer, writer, publicist, musicologist, merited worker of culture of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Born in Zhambyl region, he graduated from the Philological Faculty of the Kazakh State University, Atyrau State University.
Zhakanov headed the department of literature and culture in the Kazakhstan pioneri newspaper, worked as an editor and editor-in-chief for the State Committee on television and radio broadcasting.
He published documentary collections about Kazakh cultural figure, penned over 200 songs.