On June 25 in Smolny Cathedral concert and exhibition hall took place the opening of the exhibition “Kazakhstan way” from the funds of the Museum of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The exhibition is organized within the limits of the international partner project of the Museum “Dialogue through culture”.
The Museum of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan is the museum of the contemporary political history of the country, covering the most important stages of making of the sovereign Kazakhstan through the prism of activity of the First President – the Leader of the Nation N.A. Nazarbayev. It was established on the 28 of August, 2004 according to the Decree of the President. The museum has a historical-memorial meaning because it is situated in the building of the first Residence of the President of RK (1997-2004) in the new capital of Kazakhstan – Astana.
Kazakhstan passed a serious way: from chaos of consequences of disintegration of the Soviet Union – until definition of strategy of independent forward development. The key reforms and events that defined the future of Kazakhstan, caused logic and vector of development of the country are reflected in photo materials of the exhibition. Among them are: closing of Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, transition to national currency tenge, adoption of the Constitution, moving of the capital from Almaty to Astana and many others. The exposition includes five sections: “Creation of future”, “From independence to globalization”, “Embodied dream”, “Territory of peace and accord”, “Sides of Personality”, which successively tell about the history of the contemporary Kazakhstan.
A special place in the exposition has a subject of keeping of interfaith peace and consent by Kazakhstan society. The Assembly of the people of Kazakhstan established according to the initiative of the Head of state in 1995 became a unique institute of the interethnic consent. Astana is the capital of the republic, which became an effective international dialogue platform, the meeting place of leaders of world and traditional religions.
Kazakhstan adheres to multivector foreign policy and it is the active participant and the member of many integration associations of regional and international level. The Eurasian idea of the President Nazarbayev for the first time had been said in 1994 in Moscow State University and received an embodiment in the Treaty of the establishment of the Eurasian economic union that began its work since January 1, 2015.
The materials of the exhibition “Kazakhstan way” get acquaint with various sides of N.A.Nazarbayev’s personality who defined its especial “Kazakhstan way” of development in drama years of formation of the state’s sovereignty.
Exhibition will last until July 27, 2015. “Smolny Cathedral” concert and exhibition hall 3/1, Rastrelli square