«MYN ALGYS ULY DALAM»

On March 1, in the Library of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy, an international round table "Myn algys sagan, uly dalam!" dedicated to the Day of Gratitude was held.

The event was attended by domestic and foreign scientists, researchers, experts in the field of interethnic relations, representatives of ethnocultural associations, doctoral students and undergraduates.

In his welcoming speech, the director of the Elbasy Library, candidate of political sciences Bakytzhan Temirbolat congratulated the participants on the holiday and noted the merits of the First President of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayev in maintaining stability in society, which has become the cornerstone and unshakable direction of the state's internal policy strategy from the first days.

- Ethnic tolerance is one of the building blocks on which the society of Kazakhstan is built. The definition of N.A. Nazarbayev: "If Kazakhstan and the Kazakh nation are compared with a shanyrak, then all other ethnic groups living in the country are like the uyks that support it". Such features of the national mentality, ethnic character as openness to the world, tolerance, hospitality, respect for representatives of other ethnic groups, according to Elbasy's definition, "the golden key of friendship and harmony between people". In Kazakhstan, they know the value of true friendship. It is no coincidence that N.A. Nazarbayev at the APK session in 2016 proposed to introduce the Day of gratitude of representatives of various ethnic groups to each other, emphasizing that "this day can become a bright holiday of mercy, friendship, love of all Kazakhstans to each other." Thanksgiving Day is a day of honoring the common history of Kazakhstan people living in friendship and harmony under one shanyrak. This idea reinforces the values ​​of the national idea "Mangilik El" and the principles of the new Kazakhstan's patriotism. Kazakhstan is a unique country where peace and harmony are preserved between representatives of different ethnic groups. The task of the future generation is to protect and preserve them. For this, it is important for us to treat each other with care, be more patient, respect the language and culture of all peoples living in the country. The Head of State K. Tokayev also calls for this. The Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan and national-cultural associations are striving for this, he said.

The first President of the Republic of Ingushetia, statesman and public figure Ruslan Aushev addressed his congratulations to all Kazakhstans and participants of the round table: “77 years ago, as a result of Stalinist repressions, Chechens and Ingush were forcibly evicted from their places of permanent residence to remote and uninhabited regions of Kazakhstan and Central Asia. As a result of this tragedy, thousands of residents of the republic died of hunger, cold and disease, among them were old people, women and children. Our people still remember with horror and sadness those inhuman trials that fell upon them along the entire long journey from the Caucasus mountains to the Kazakh steppes ... his disappearance. In this most difficult period for our people, the Kazakhs, who themselves could barely make ends meet, offered us their brotherly shoulder and saved tens of thousands of Ingush families!".

“Among those who were accepted and warmed by the Kazakh land were my parents: father Aushev Sultan-Khamid Yusupovich and mother Aushev Tamara Isultanovna ... I will always remember with what warmth and love they told us, their children, about the great Kazakh hospitality and the sincere support of ordinary people. They also bequeathed to us to pass on from generation to generation words of immense gratitude to the Kazakh brothers for the help and support provided in the most difficult and tragic times for our people! The Ingush are one of dozens of nations and nationalities who were forcibly deported during the years of Stalin's repressions and found their second homeland in Kazakhstan, and I believe that the establishment of the Day of Gratitude in Kazakhstan by the Decree of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nazarbayev Nursultan Abishevich was the right and far-sighted decision. Allow me, on behalf of all Vainakhs and on my own behalf, to congratulate all brotherly Kazakh people on the 5th anniversary of the establishment of the Day of Gratitude and wish you strong health, peace, kindness, happiness and prosperity! " - noted R. Aushev.

Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign and Domestic Policy of the Chechen Republic Dzhambulat Umarov sent a video message in which he congratulated Kazakhstan people on the Day of Gratitude on behalf of the head of the Chechen Republic, Hero of Russia Ramzan Kadyrov:

“This phrase for us in relation to the people of Kazakhstan is sacred, because on this day we, the Chechens, want to express our deepest gratitude to the merciful, compassionate people of Kazakhstan. In the terrible February 1944, our people were exiled to Kazakhstan by malicious intent, not deported, but precisely exiled to certain death. But I must say, the criminals miscalculated. They counted on the indifference of local residents, that the Kazakhs would pass by, past those who were unfairly and completely cynically called enemies of the people, but the Kazakh people were above politics. They showed real humanity. The Kazakhs warmed us up, fed us and shared their last. Allow me, on the instructions of Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov, who calls Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev his mentor, to express my great gratitude to you on this Day of Gratitude".

State and public figure of the Republic of Kazakhstan, member of the APK Council, vice-president of the World Chechen Congress Akhmet Muradov, granddaughters of prisoners of ALZHIR: film director Daria Violina (Moscow) and Natalia Grigorieva (Saint Petersburg), and also the chief specialist of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Doctor of History, Professor Dmitry Panto (Gdansk, Poland).

- The Day of Gratitude is a symbol of our common historical memory, it is a tribute to our sacred past, the triumph of the policy of peace and harmony laid down by Elbasy N.A. Nazarbayev, - stressed A. Muradov.

- Gratitude is the main feeling that takes possession of me when I think about Kazakhstan. The first part of gratitude refers to the distant past, when in 1938 my grandmother Lydia Frenkel, who at that time was 28 years old, arrived from Moscow for a long, many-week journey to Kazakhstan. She emerged from the teplushka in the middle of the bare feather-grass steppe together with thousands of other innocently convicted women. They had to dig irrigation ditches, build barracks and go down in history under the name of the notorious prisoners of ALZHIR. She survived, freed herself and lived for 91 years. I grew up on her stories about Kazakhstan. Despite the fact that she had to go through, she always spoke about Kazakhstan with incredible warmth, tenderness and gratitude. She always stressed that Kazakhs are an amazing people. In 2000, my grandmother passed away, in 2009, the year of her centenary, I decided that I should visit your country and worship the land that once saved her life. This is where the second part of my gratitude to Kazakhstan begins. Everything that I saw in the ALZHIR museum and in the museum in memory of victims of political repression in Dolinka, your attitude to memory, to your history, your people - it amazed me. I think that in no country in the post-Soviet space there are such museums, nowhere is the memory so preserved, not just by individuals, but on such a scale, at the state level. For this, I bow to you and your First President, - said D.Violina.

- In our technical age of information technologies, it is important to be able to convey to young people knowledge about the value of each person, about big and small feats of people. Through the stories of specific people, their biographies, personal tragic destinies to touch the era of those terrible times. How they lived, worked, loved, gave their lives so that we, our children, the children of our children remember the life stories of our relatives and friends, including their tragic pages, in order to prevent a repetition of such events in the future, - noted N. Grigorieva.

Presentations were made by the head of the department of APK ENU named after L.N. Gumilyova, Chairperson of the Association of Departments of APK “Shanyrak” Natalya Kalashnikova, Professor of Al-Farabi KazNU Herman Kim, Professor of Al-Farabi KazNU Gaziz Telebaev, Head of the Department of Social and Political Research of the Ingush Research Institute of Humanities named after Ch.E. Akhrieva Leyla Arapkhanova, head of the Tatar-Bashkir ethnocultural center Sergei Sadykov, head of the department of the APK of Toraigyrov University Saule Mamytova, head of the public association "Turkish Ethnocultural Center" Akhiska "Nur-Sultan, member of the APK Asker Piriev, head of the department of the World Ukrainian Kiev National University named after T.Shevchenko Vladimir Sergiychuk, chairman of the Uzbek ethnocultural center of Nur-Sultan Sherzod Pulatov and other participants of the event.