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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In 1883, was founded the Semipalatinsk Multipurpose Library named after Abay

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In 1883, was founded the Semipalatinsk Multipurpose Library named after Abay - e-history.kz
In 1883 was founded the Semipalatinsk Multipurpose Library named after Abay. It was opened on the initiative of the revolutionary democrats , exiled in Semipalatinsk tsarist government for participation in revolutionary circles. The library consisted of only a thousand copies of publications . The library was the center of Semipalatinsk intellectuals , regular readers of her were : E.Mihaelis , N.Dolgopolov , A.Kunanbaev. American journalist visited the library and publicist George Kennan, the Russian traveler P.Seed Tien Shan, a Polish revolutionary Yanushkevich who describe .