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

Birthday of the Kazakh writer satirist and translator Ospankhan Aubakirov (1934-1986)

In 1939 the Union of composers of Kazakhstan was created

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In 1905 Kazakh congress was held at Koyandy fair near Karkaraly

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109 years ago Kazakh congress was held at Koyandy fair near Karkaraly at the initiative of Alash leaders. Delegates adopted petition which included the following aspirations: cessation of peasant resettlement, establishment of the separate clerical administration for Kazakhs, censorship abolition, introduction of official paper work in Kazakh language, establishment of jury trial, participation of Kazakh delegates in the debates on convocation of the State Duma.