On the eve of the Independence Day of the Republic of Kazakhstan, there was an event on the topic “My Motherland is Kazakhstan” for patriotic education of schoolchildren held at school-gymnasium No.73 in Almaty. The veterans of the December 1986 uprising in Almaty were invited to this event. Among the guests of honor there was the lecturer of A. Baitursuly Department of Kazakh Linguistics of Al-Farabi KazNU, Candidate of Philology Khanshaim Abdutalypovna Karabaeva. During the meeting, she shared her memories about the December events of 1986 and answered schoolchildren’s questions.
She thanked the teachers and the pupils for hosting the event and donated the “Student Shezhiresi (Student Chronicle)” book that contains the stories of the fellow students about the December events to the school library.