Anthem of the Republic of Kazakhstan

"Anthem of the Republic of Kazakhstan" is the former national anthem of Kazakhstan from 1991 to early 2006. Upon independence in December 1991, the melody of the Kazakh SSR anthem, composed by musicians Mūqan Tölebaev, Yevgeny Brusilovsky and Latif Hamidi, was retained; and new lyrics written by authors Mūzafar Älımbaev, Qadyr Myrza Älı, Tūmanbai Moldağaliev and Jadyra Därıbaeva were adopted in 1992. The lyrics were written by four people including poet Jadyra Därıbaeva, one of only a handful of women to have ever been involved in writing a national anthem. On 7 January 2006, it was replaced by "Menıñ Qazaqstanym".