July 15. Kazinform's timeline of major events
DATES
World Youth Skills Day declared by the United Nations General Assembly is marked annually on July 15 to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.
EVENTS
1992 – Kazakhstan and Romania establish diplomatic relations.
2009 – The international technical and environmental standard Euro-2 is introduced in Kazakhstan.
2010 – The signing of the agreement between the shareholders of Kazakhstan’s KazMunayGas and Shell Kazakhstan Development B.V. as part of the Northern Caspian project takes place according to which KazMunayGas joined NC Production Operations Company B.V. (NCPOC) on a basis of parity with Shell.
2018 – Nazarbayev Intellectual School student Nurdaulet Taumergenov’s project for synthetizing oral speech from sign language with the use of GloveSpeaker wins the Grand Prix of the Yakutsk International Science Fair.
2018 – Nine-year old Atyrau native Zarina Nurgaliyeva claims gold medals in rapid and blitz chess at the 14th Asian Chess Championships for students of 7-17 years old.
2019 – Kazakhstani Adilkhan Makin wins the Grand Prix of the 18th International Art Festival Contest Slavic Bazaar in Vitebsk, Belarus after scoring 178 points.
2021 – Kazakhstan claims total 18 medals, including five gold, six silver, and seven bronze ones, at the para athletics competition Czech Open in Olomouc.
