Taldykorgan starts celebration of the Year of People’s Assembly of Kazakhstan (PHOTO)

The event has been attended by the Mayor of Almaty region Amandyk Batalov, Mayor of Taldykorgan Yermek Alpysov, veterans of the Great Patriotic War and labor, as well as cultural figures, writers and poets of the region. The event began with raising of the flag of the Year of People's Assembly. Then the head of the region congratulated the residents of the area with the beginning of the Year of People's Assembly and read greetings of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The organizers of the event staged a theatrical performance about the formation of the Kazakh Khanate, and the Great Patriotic War. It is noteworthy that the Governor of the region Amandyk Batalov handed jubilee medals "70th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders" to veterans Peter Yeshchenko, Shamsudin Ismailov and Altynai Yesbolatova.