This day in history

In 1980 the Museum of Fine Arts was opened in Tselinograd to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the development of virgin lands

In 1991 the first Kazakh cosmonaut went into space from Baikonur

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In 1980 the Museum of Fine Arts was opened in Tselinograd to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the development of virgin lands

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In 1980 the Museum of Fine Arts was opened in Tselinograd (modern Astana) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the development of virgin lands. The first collection of the Museum included 500 works brought from the All-Union Exhibition "The Land and People", took place in Kazakhstan’s capital Almaty. Nowadays, the collection of the Museum counts more than 3000 works of masters of fine arts from Kazakhstan, Russia and CIS countries.