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

The declaration on the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the elimination of all the authorities of the USSR was adopted on December 26, 1991.

Birthday of Turar Ryskulov

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In 1917 the military council of Zhetysu Cossack army formed the military government

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In 1917 the military council of Zhetysu Cossack army formed the military government. White Guard officers and the cadet for fight against the Soviet power gathered in Verny (current Almaty). In November, 1917, in Uralsk the counterrevolution center was formed. The regional army government created here soon dispersed local Council and seized power. These army governments were the principal forces of White Guard counterrevolutionary movement in Kazakhstan. They leaned on White Guard officers, kulak elements of the Cossack villages and resettlement villages and were supported by local cadets, Social Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, the leaders of «Alash» party; «Shuro-i-islamii» and some other parties and political movements.