Roza Urbiybi Tazhibaykyzy Baglanova[a] (January 1, 1922 – February 8, 2011) was a Soviet and Kazakh soprano opera and pop music singer.

The Baglanov family consisted of grandmother Kundey, father Tazhibay, mother Akkurush, Tazhibai's second wife the Tatar Maryam, and older brother Idris.

Grandmother Kundey owned rich property, and exchanged jewellery, dishes, trays, spoons, belts, and bracelets for bread, tea, flour.

He provided Baglanova with a five-room apartment in the centre of the city and arranged to bring her remaining relatives to Tashkent.

[4] Usman Yusupov attended and after the concert, he came to the singer and gave her 1000 roubles with a ticket to studying at the Moscow Conservatory.

[5] The young star sang about 15 hours a day without a break despite the bad weather, blood, and flying bullets.

She wanted to remind them by singing in their native languages about the homeland and bring some light memories despite the horrors of on-going war.

Baglanova was the only Soviet artist who was twice awarded the medal “For Military Merit” in the period of the Great Patriotic War.

The ensemble of Tamara Khanum with Roza Baglanova and other members went to the city to perform to the seriously wounded soldiers who laid on the ground in the half-ruined buildings.

After the victory in releasing the city, on the same day in 18:00, Konstantin Rokossovsky awarded Baglanova with the second medal “For Military Merit” in his residence.

During World War II, Baglanova met Kazakh poet Zhuban Moldagaliev, who asked her to return to her motherland, Uzbekistan.

[8] In 1949, the head of the USSR Stalin turned seventy years old, and Roza took part in a large concert in the Kremlin dedicated to his anniversary.

Stalin gave her a standing ovation and his guests of honor followed after him: Mao Zedong, Jacques Duclos, Wilhelm Pieck, Klement Gottwald, and others.

She went to every corner of Kazakhstan: at the Baikonur cosmodrome, with the fishermen of the Aral Sea, with livestock breeders in the most distant districts, on many stages of the Houses of Culture.

She sang in auls (villages of the republic) sometimes right under the open sky, and on moonlit nights and hot days.

On April 5, 1980, at the Palace of the Republic, the big festive concert took place, and she performed at the stage with the help of her son.

Right after the Festival, Baglanova and other winners of the contest had concerts in the countries of Europe such as Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Poland.

[2] Though often portrayed as a small and elegant woman, with a gentle soprano singing voice, Roza Baglanoza was a formidable figure in many countries who commanded a great deal of respect and dared to challenge authority's decisions.

Worried about the future of her country, Roza Baglanova was not alone in thinking that officials could do more, receiving handwritten letters with words of support from all parts of her homeland.

Roza was one of the first civil rights activists in her country who succeeded in capturing the attention of the whole Soviet Union and focusing that attention to the environmentally harmful effects of some projects, including two major ecological disasters of the 20th century: the Aral Sea problem and the Semipalatinsk Test Site, also known as “The Polygon”.

How can I talk about advanced innovations and the country's progress towards science, when they are literally killing and ruthlessly destroying the whole nation.

It was hard to fundamentally alter the government's practices, since Roza Baglanova played no crucial part in the daily decision-making.

Being introduced to Kazakhstan's leading artists and composers, she had a unique opportunity to enlarge an assortment of musical numbers.

Songs such as “Aq tamaq”, “Asyl arman” and “Qyz armany” had a renewed interest thanks to Baglanova's original performances and style.

Nonetheless, it was “Ah, Samara - Gorodok”, the Russian folk song, once just a mundane composition, that turned her into a world-famous singer.

Some places and monuments in Kazakhstan have been named in her honour, most notably, the central street and a cultural centre of Aiyteke.

[12] In January 2021, the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, posted a tweet with an assurance to the country to build a historical monument in order to memorialise Baglanova and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the singer's birthday.

A bronze statue almost five meters tall is installed in front of the building of the Jambyl Kazakh State Philharmonic.