A thematic exhibition celebrating
People’s Unity Day has kicked off in Astana. It features Tajik wall carpets
suzani, Turkmen national headwear papakha, and Russian traditional rushnik
embroidered with bright colors. The exhibits reveal the historical
relationships between different ethnic groups in the country, their
cooperation, and cultural development. Visitors can get acquainted with the
history of national clothing, as well as household items such as utensils,
carpets, felt products, souvenirs, and fine art pieces of Turkmen, Uzbek,
Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Russian, Korean, and other peoples. The exhibition
showcases over 200 museum items from the Presidential Center’s collections.
“The exhibition is primarily
aimed at strengthening unity and peace in the country based on the Kazakh model
of interethnic and interfaith harmony. The exposition features gifts from various
states, reflecting diplomatic relations that align with Kazakhstan’s
multi-vector foreign policy. Among them is the Tajik carpet suzani, traditionally
sewn by mothers for their daughters as dowry,” said Gulim Rakhimzhanova, senior
expert of the excursion service at Kazakhstan’s Presidential Center.
