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20 Tenge Zhambyl Zhabayev
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 11.37 g |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Mintage | 1996 ҚҰБ - - 100,000 |
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Zhambyl Zhabayev (1846–1945) was a Kazakh aqyn — an improvising oral poet in the traditional bardic tradition — who lived to 99 and became a Soviet propaganda instrument in his final decades. His 1941 poem "Leningradtsy, deti moi" ("Leningraders, my children"), broadcast during the Siege of Leningrad, was used extensively by Soviet authorities to rally civilian morale. Whether the elderly poet composed it independently or with heavy editorial assistance from Soviet handlers remains a matter of scholarly dispute.
His inclusion in Kazakhstan's first commemorative circulation series reflects the post-independence effort to reclaim figures the Soviet state had co-opted.