WISDOM AND TRADITIONS OF THE GREAT STEPPE: NATIONAL HISTORY AND MODERNITY

On November 20, researchers of the Elbassy Library Social, Humanitarian and Educational Projects Service held an online lecture "Wisdom and Traditions of the Great Steppe: National History and Modernity" for students of the capital College of Management and Business.

The lecture was dedicated to the second anniversary of the publication of the article "Seven Facets of the Great Steppe" by the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Elbassy N. Nazarbayev.
– In a period of instability with conflicting predictions, it is particularly important to adequately assess the increasing amount of information with diametrically opposite characteristics of processes and their expected consequences. Fears of a crisis in the economy, which are becoming the basis for a panic information boom, make the situation worse. In this regard, it is extremely necessary to maintain civil unity, bonded ethical communications, with the aim of overcoming the crisis, – note lecturers, stressing that the article of the President  "Seven Facets of the Great Steppe", which is a conceptual continuation of the program "Rukhani Zhagyru", aims to preserve Kazakhstan national and cultural identity containing a moral component, in terms of the Third Modernization of Kazakhstan.
The spiritual traditions of the Kazakhs as carriers of the Turkic nomadic civilization do not lose their relevance at the present time. National unity as the basis of the structure and guarantee of a strong centralized state is generated and stimulated by the national code contained in the spiritual heritage of the ancestors. The sacredness of traditions containing moral concepts creates a system of national values, adherence to which and the observance of prescriptions make honor, conscience, sincerity the main, moreover, natural motives and thoughts in serving the people and the state. The precepts of the ancestors, the awareness of belonging to the rich heroic history arouse a sense of pride and importance of the life and activities of every citizen as a descendant of nomads who have made history in the world, and as a predecessor of events of equal importance in the future.