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 1960 the first blast furnace of Karaganda Integrated Iron and Steel began its work

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The first Kazakhstan’s cast iron was produced. This day is considered to be the day of birth of Kazakhstan’s Magnitka.