May 31 – Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression and Famine

On May 31, 2022, the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression and Famine, a flower-laying ceremony at the Wall of Remembrance was held on the grounds of the ALZHIR Museum and Memorial Complex on behalf of the akimat and maslikhat of the city of Nur-Sultan, the Democratic Party of Kazakhstan Ak Zhol, the akimat of Akmola Region, the descendants of the repressed, and representatives of the public of Nur-Sultan. During the ceremony, a minute of silence was observed in memory of the victims of political repression and famine. Descendants of the repressed spoke at the Wall of Remembrance, including Olga Yuryevna Grotova, great-granddaughter of Claudia Vasilyevna Augustin, a prisoner of ALZHIR, and Perizat Kurmanovna Saduakas, granddaughter of Zhanaidar Sadvakasov, People's Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor of the Kazakh ASSR and First Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kazakh SSR, who was repressed in 1937, among others. A prayer was read in memory of the repressed.