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27.05.2022 · Directorate of United Museums of the Astana City Akimat

In the Memory of Generations

On May 27, 2022, the international scientific and practical conference "Urpaqtar esinde.

On May 27, 2022, the international scientific and practical conference "Urpaqtar esinde. In the Memory of Generations" was held in the Alash Hall of the ALZHIR Museum and Memorial Complex. It was dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the start of mass political repression and the 15th anniversary of the opening of the ALZHIR Museum and Memorial Complex. The conference participants were descendants of the repressed from Kazakhstan and from countries near and far abroad, historians, scholars, and researchers of the history of political repression, creative intelligentsia, and museum workers.

As part of the project, descendants of the repressed laid a basket of flowers at the Wall of Remembrance and planted trees with them in the Alash Park. A resolution was adopted following the conference.