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

Birthday of an actor, film director Asanali Ashimov

May 8, 1975 in Almaty at the park named after 28 Panfilov’s Guardsmen was established the Memorial “Glory”

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In 1917 the first issue of the "News of the Regional Central Committee, leader of the Inner Horde" Soviet newspaper was published

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The newspaper was published in two languages and renamed several times. Since 1963 the regional newspaper was calle "Oral Oniri" ("Ural Region") and "Priuralye" ("The Urals").