in 2017. It was formed on November 8, 1995 in accordance with the Directive of the Minister of Defense, Army General
Sagadat Nurmagambetov. Shortly after its foundation, Colonel Alexander Belyakov (
Russian: Александр Викторович Беляков) joined the band as its senior director. Belyakov was commissioned to lead the band by Nurmagambetov after his role in the
Victory Day Parade on
Republic Square that year. In 2012, the orchestra was relocated from the city of
Almaty to
Astana. It was not long after which Belyakov resigned from his post as band director, citing his anger at the fact that regional Kazakh bands were represented at a
Defender of the Fatherland Day military band parade while the central band was not represented due to the resignation of 95 musicians as a result of the MoD's order to move the band. According to Belyakov, who headed the military band service for 18 years by that point, he felt ”insulted" by the decision and said he hoped that he is "fired after May 7". The remaining members of the band were housed in the
Astana Zhas Ulan Republican School on a temporary basis while the resigning musicians were paid 20 thousand
tenge each. Following this period, the new Band of the Ministry of Defense was given a new staff and became is not only an invariable participant of all socially significant events in the republic, but has become essentially an educational and methodological center of the
Military Band Service. The band commonly performs during the
Astana Day celebrations on
Independence Square. == See also ==