If a nation does not know its history, if the country loses its history, then its citizens have nowhere to go.
Mirzhakyp Dulatuly

Today in history

In 1894 the first train reached the city of Petropavlovsk by the Trans-Siberian Railway

That day Shakarim Kudaiberdiyev, Kazakh poet, writer, translator, composer, historian and philosopher was born

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97 years ago, the meeting of poets took place in Vernyi (Almaty)

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97 years ago, the meeting of poets took place in Vernyi (Almaty). Zhambyl Zhabayev was among participants.