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 1989 a monument to Shokan Ualikhanov in Almaty was built

Today is the birthday of the only Kazakh female pilot of the Great Patriotic War Hiuaz Dospanova

In 1992, the Collective Security Treaty was signed

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Birthday of Kalybek Kuanyshbayev

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Kalybek Kuanyshbayev was born on April 25, 1893 in the village Sarytau of Karkala county of Semipalatinsk region (Russian empire). He was the Kazakh Soviet Actor and People’s Artist of the USSR (1959). Kalybek performed as a folk-wit comedian on the national festivals and fairs. In 1925 he participated in the creation of the first professional Kazakh theater (Kyzyl-Orda, now the Kazakh Drama Theater named after M.Auezov in Almaty), where he worked until his last days. From 1937 he acted in the films.