The monument to the outstanding Kazakh akyn Zhambyl Zhabayev was erected in 1961 on the square of the same name in the city of Dzhambul (now Taraz). The authors of the project are the architect V. Soshenko, the sculptor is the national artist of the Kazakh SSR H. Nauryzbaev. The sculpture was cast in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). From 2018 to 2019, restoration work was carried out on the monument on the basis of the «Union of Artists of the Republic of Kazakhstan» in Almaty. After restoration, the monument was erected in the city of Taraz in front of the Akimat of the Zhambyl region along Abay Street on the basis of the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated November 8, 2019, No. 841.

The figure of Zhambyl Zhabayev is made in full growth. Akyn is depicted in national dress - in a long chapan and a fur hat. He holds a musical instrument in his left hand - a dombra, his right hand is laid aside. The figure is cast of cast iron, tinted in bronze. The height of the figure is 4 m, the pedestal is 4.3 m.

Zhambyl Zhabaev was born on February 28, 1846 in the Moyynkumsky district of the Zhambyl region. Zh.Zhabayev is a Kazakh folk akyn, one of the largest representatives of oral folk art, the author of patriotic poems and a number of heroic poems about batyrs. Zhambyl’s appeal to the heroic defenders of besieged Leningrad “Leningraders, my children!” Is one of the best works of multinational Soviet literature of the war years.

He was awarded the Orders of Lenin and the Red Banner of Labor, was a laureate of the Republican Aitys in 1934, and in 1941 became the owner of the USSR State Prize.

From 1938 to 1997, the city of Taraz bore the name of Zhambyl Zhabayev.