The unique two-volume book ‘Otanyna Oralgan Kuzhattyk Kazyna’ presented in Astana contains letters written by Kenessary Khan to the Russian authorities, correspondence of Mustafa Shokai from abroad with his supporters in the homeland, as well as other important historical documents. It also features previously unpublished verses and poems by well-known Kazakh poets, along with the rare photographs reflecting the life of the Kazakh people during the past century. The book includes over 100 original archival materials, collected by researchers during their expeditions to Russia, Turkey, Romania, the Czech Republic and Poland.
“We visited many countries this year as part of the ‘Archive 2025’ program. The work of collecting valuable heritage abroad involved the employees not only of our National Archive, but also the staff of all the archives across the country. We plan to study these materials and publish them in the third and fourth volumes of the collection in the near future,” Abu-Askar Mekesh, spokesperson for the National Archive of Kazakhstan, said.
Another book is dedicated to the 150th birth anniversary of the famous public figure, scientist, turkologist and literary scholar Akhmet Baitursynuly. The unique 12-volume publication includes the materials gathered by domestic researchers from the Archives of a number of foreign states. And most importantly, the book presents almost all the literary heritage of the Kazakh enlightener arranged in chronological order. These are his poems, articles, correspondence, reviews, translations and notes.
“This 12-volume book includes previously unpublished works written by Akhmet Baitursynuly, such as the work about farmers. The manuscripts were stored in the central archive, as well as in the Almaty City Library. The archives of the present-day Kostanai region preserved a few articles by Baitursynuly published in 1895 and 1896 in the Torgai newspaper, as well as his and Mirzhakyp Dulatuly’s ‘Our Response’ article in defense of the Alash members, which was published in 1917,” Sultan Khan Akkuly, book author and Alash expert, informed.
