If a nation does not know its history, if the country loses its history, then its citizens have nowhere to go.
Mirzhakyp Dulatuly

Today in history

In 1984, N. Nazarbayev was appointed as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR

In 2006 in Moscow was opened a monument dedicated to Abay Kunanbayev

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Adopted the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstab "On Universal Military Duty and Military Service"

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Adopted the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstab "On Universal Military Duty and Military Service" - e-history.kz
The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Universal Military Duty and Military Service" was adopted on January 19. This law defined the military ranks in the newly created Armed Forces of the country. They repeated the system ranks of the USSR Armed Forces. The rank of the Marshall became the highest in the ground forces while the rank of Admiral in the navy forces (which did not exist at that time). In Kazakhstan, the rank of the Marshall has not been previously assigned. The rank of the General of the Army was first assigned in the same year of 1993 to the first Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan, S.K. Nurmagambetov. The second person who received this rank was the actual Minister of Defense, M.K. Altynbaev.