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 1905 Kazakh congress was held at Koyandy fair near Karkaraly

In 1932 the Central Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR was founded

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The monument to victims of political repressions was opened in Petropavlovsk in 2005

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Author of the project is Honored Artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan Hasen Abaev. The monument, which is located in Petropavlovsk on the place where there was at one time the NKVD building, symbolizes the prison.