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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In 1916, an order to release aristocrats and clergy from recruitment into the army was issued

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In 1916, an order to release aristocrats and clergy from recruitment into the army was issued - e-history.kz
On August 23, 1916 the Governor General Kuropatkin signed a secret order to exempt Kazakh aristocrats from recruitment