On April 5, the KSU Children Care Department "Karaganda Regional Junior Library named after Zh. Bekturov, Department of Culture, Archives and Documentation of the Karaganda Region" held a musical hour "To Many An Astana" - "Song of You - Astana", dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the capital of Astana , with students of the 5th grades of gymnasium No. 97, secondary school No. 48, there were 45 people present. The book illustrative exhibition "Айбынды және балғын Астана" - "Majestic and Young Beauty Astana" was displayed, where 19 copies of books and periodicals were exhibited.

Within the framework of the event, a meeting was held with Melnikova Lyudmila Evgenievna - Karaganda composer, poetess, music teacher, chairman of the Public Association of Composers of the Karaganda region "Балауса", holder of the Honorary Marks "ҚР Мәдениет қайраткері", "Ыбрай Алтынсарин" and many other awards.

L.E. Melnikova - author of 400 musical works and poems, 15 audio albums and collections of author's songs, which are translated into Kazakh, English, German.

At the beginning of the event, cognitive information about the history of Astana sounded, the guys watched the video about the modern look of our capital with great interest.

The meeting with the composer began with the author's song "Астана - Байтерек", in the beautiful performance of the student Melnikova L.E. Makhanov Nurbergen, a student of 7 "A" class, school number 21, who then performed another song: "My Republic, independent". Studying 3 "A" class, school number 21 Gainutdinova Yasmin, also a student of Lyudmila Evgenievna, remarkably sang two songs: "Little stars" and "Make friends with the rain." A great impression on the children was made by the performance of the vocal ensemble "Cadets", School No. 21, who sang and marched to the music of Melnikova L.E. Sitting in the hall guys, amicably clapping and singing along to the speakers.

At the end of the event Lyudmila Yevgenyevna congratulated those present on the upcoming holiday - the Day of the Capital and presented a collection of songs for children and youth "Достық қаласы" - "The City of Friendship" and disks-phonograms with new children's songs "Sing with Us", "Children's Holiday" ".

After the event, the children were photographed with great pleasure for memory with the composer, and also viewed with interest the books and periodicals at the book illustrative exhibition "Айбынды және балғын Астана" - Velichava and Young Beauty Astana.