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 an actor, film director Asanali Ashimov

May 8, 1975 in Almaty at the park named after 28 Panfilov’s Guardsmen was established the Memorial “Glory”

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In 1932 the Central Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR was founded

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In 1932 the Central Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR was founded - e-history.kz
82 years ago the Central Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR with the fund of two thousand books was founded. In 1992 it became the Central Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan.