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 1894 the first train reached the city of Petropavlovsk by the Trans-Siberian Railway

That day Shakarim Kudaiberdiyev, Kazakh poet, writer, translator, composer, historian and philosopher was born

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In 1992 in Kazakhstan was opened the first international railway

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June 20, 1992 opened its first international rail links. From Almaty to Urumqi (China) went the first passenger train.