#Abai175: Bibigul Tulegenova joins challenge

NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - Popular legendary opera singer Bibigul Tulegenova joined the challenge in honor of the 175th Birth Anniversary of great Kazakh poet and philosopher Abai Kunanbayev, Kazinform reports.

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BibigulTulegenova, who is known as a «Kazakh nightingale» for her unsurpassed voice, pickedup the challenge from Bibigul Zheksenbay, a renowned TV journalist, GeneralDirector of Astana TV Channel.

She sang a songbased on one of the poems by Abai.

People’s artistBibigul Tulegenova passed the poetry challenge on to Nurlan Nigmatulin, Chairmanof the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan.