The opening ceremony of a series of events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory was held

A solemn opening ceremony of a series of events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War was held at the Kh. Dosmukhamedov Atyrau University.
The gathering, which was attended by home front veterans, representatives of local executive and representative authorities, public activists, and student youth, began with the performance of the song "Den Pobedy", difficult times and heroic feats on the way to the Great Victory were heard and a video was also shown.
The main goal of the thematic events organized by the Nation’s Party of Kazakhstan is to educate and strengthen the love for the Motherland among the younger generation.
"I would like to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who attended today's ceremony, as well as to all those who will take part in the upcoming events." Let us all work together to make this year meaningful and memorable for the people of Kazakhstan. In the Atyrau region, 51,013 people went to the front of the Great Patriotic War, including 6,503 who returned, 3,365 went missing, 6,917 died. According to data on home front veterans, there are 2,487 of them in the Atyrau region, the number of deaths at the moment is 1,807 people, and the total number of cases at the moment is only 680 people. "During the Great Patriotic War, 14 people from the Atyrau region became "Nation's Heroes", Heroes of the Soviet Union and full holders of the Order of Glory," said the Chairman of the Atyrau Regional Branch of the Nation's Party of Kazakhstan Balzhan Ibatkyzy, calling on participants to take an active part in all events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.
During the meeting, the Chairman of the Regional Council of Veterans Murat Uteshov, the Representative of the Maslikhat Gulnafiya Tanbayeva, who supports important initiatives of the Nation's Party of Kazakhstan, Professor Kadyr Zhusip, an honorary citizen of the Atyrau region, Academician of the Caspian Academy Shakhman Nagimov spoke and shared their thoughts.
"The Great Patriotic War, in which Nazi Germany attacked and tore the globe into two parts, was a terrible war that no one will ever forget." I was a child who saw the other side of that terrible war at the time... I am one of those who was born before the war. At the beginning of the war, more than 500 German planes flew reconnaissance missions from the front in Stalingrad to Western Kazakhstan, Mangystau, Aktobe and Guryev (Atyrau). The questions behind this visit were: "Is it worth conquering this region of Kazakhstan?" and "What is its future?" "There were big questions: "What happened?"," shared the memories of the difficult years doctor of philological sciences, professor Kadyr Otegenuly.
The granddaughter of Suleimen Iskakuly, who died in the Great Patriotic War, Aliya Mustafakyzy, as well as the grandchildren of the Hero of the Soviet Union Kairgali Smagulov, Raul Ismagulov and Kuanysh Ismagulov, who shared warm memories of their grandfathers, attended the ceremonial meeting.
At the end of the event, the participants honored the memory of our heroes with a minute of silence and paid tribute to their souls.