Almaty: City. History. Destiny

On November 3, 2021 in the State Archives of Almaty for the 1st year masters of the Institute of History and Law of Abai KazNPU an event was held titled «Almaty: City. History. Destiny» dedicated to the 30th anniversary of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

It was organised by Associate Professor Sh. T. Nurmani and PhD A. A. Zhumabayeva of the Sadykov Chair of History of Kazakhstan and A. M. Isalova, Deputy Director of the State Archive of Almaty.

The meeting was attended by Director of the State Archives of Almaty A.K. Botanov, chief specialists O.R. Belonosov, L.V. Dannik and L. Rakhipov. According to the training schedule the undergraduates of the speciality «7M01601-History» were informed with the documents and library of the State Archive of Almaty. Then the exchange of opinions took place with the participation of the main specialists of this agency. The fund of the archive, rare architectural and visual, narrative materials on the history of the city and previously classified documents were of great interest for the undergraduates. The archivists, for their part, offered maximum support to the researchers and expressed their readiness to advise them on the process of identification and document search. At the end of the meeting, it was proposed to implement a joint project on the history of the Soviet period in Almaty.