Naum Shafer

Naum Grigorievich Shafer (Russian: Наум Григорьевич Шафер; born Nahman Gershevich Shafer, Russian: Нахман Гершевич Шафер; 13 January 1931 – 11 October 2022), also known under his composer pseydonym Nami Gitin, was a Kazakhstani musicologist, professor, phonograph record collector and composer.

In 1940, during the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia, he and his family were deported to Kazakhstan to the special settlement "New Way" in Akmola Region.

There he met famous composer Yevgeny Brusilovsky, who saw talent in young Shafer and taught him music for free.

Such a topic was also picked for the Candidate of Philological Sciences degree at the Kazakh National Pedagogical University in 1965.

In 1991, he became a professor at the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature of the Pavlodar Pedagogical University.