31.05.2024 The international exhibition “Turkestan under the rule of two Empires: colonialism and repression”
The Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Committee on Culture, the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, together with the State Museum of Memory of Repression under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, on May 31, 10:00, 2024, on the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression, the international exhibition “Turkestan under the rule of two Empires: colonialism and repression” will open.
The purpose of the exhibition is to preserve the memory of the victims of Stalin's terror, restore historical justice, victims of political repression and preserve the memory of generations. For the first time, the exhibition will feature photographic and archival documents of repressed state and public figures of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from the funds of the State Museum of Memory of Victims of Repression under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The exhibition will feature photographic documents – S. Khodzhanov, F. Zaripkyzy, T. Otarbayeva, M. Myltykbayeva, as well as personal complexes of A. Baitursynov, A. Bukeikhanov, M. Dulatova, M. Tynyshpaeva, real museum objects of S. Seifullin, H. Dosmukhamedov from the funds of the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Within the framework of the exhibition, an international round table "On the rehabilitation of victims of political repression in Central Asian countries: results and common problems" will be held jointly with the scientific laboratory "Aitylgan Tarikh" of the Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University. The round table will be attended by the director of the State Museum of Memory of Victims of Repression under the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan, Chairman of the Public Foundation "Shahidlar khotirasy", Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Bakhtiyar Khasanov "Reforms in the new Uzbekistan to perpetuate the memory of intellectuals and educators who were repressed during the totalitarian Soviet regime", Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of KazNPU named after Abaya, academician of the National Academy of Sciences Mambet Koigeldiev "The cause and consequences of political repression in Kazakhstan", chief researcher of the State Museum of Memory of Victims of Repression under the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bahrom Irzaev "Prospects for joint research on the history of repressed Kazakhs, immigrants in Uzbekistan".
At 9.00 flowers will be laid at the monument to the victims political repression.
