The contribution of the National Archives of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the implementation of the ideas in the program article “Spiritual Revival”

Abstract

The article provides the analyses of the work of the National Archives of the Republic of Kazakhstan aimed at reviving the history of the country. The contribution of the country’s archives to the issues raised in the program article by President Nursultan Nazarbayev, “Focus on the Future: Spiritual Revival”, is studied. The implementation of programs adopted by the state in connection with the modernization of archives is described. The authors analyze the activities of the archives of Kazakhstan over the years of independence and classify them step by step. For example, between 1990 and 2000, the storage units in the republican archives focused on the status of received cases, during the celebration of these dates, a description of the work done by the collected country’s archives, exhibitions, documents. To consider the “white patches” of the history of Kazakhstan, the regional archives collected documents on Kazakhs who went abroad in the twentieth century, the tragedy of famine and repression, and submitted them to the General Archives. In 1995, the International Conference dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the country’s archives was examined. The conference was attended by representatives of archival departments of the CIS countries. In addition, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Great Victory, a large-scale event was held, which included a list of citizens from different regions of Kazakhstan who went to the front in search of soldiers killed and missing in the Great Patriotic War. As a result, The Book of Remembrance of each region was published. The authors tried to dwell on the issues of research work of archives in this direction. In 1997, in the “Year of National Reconciliation and Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions”, the country’s archives contributed significantly to this noble cause by raising documents on the dusty shelves of archives to justify innocent people who were shot during the political repressions of the 1930s. The adoption of the Law on the National Archives in 1998 made this year special for the country’s archivists. Since this year was declared the Year of Unity of Peoples and National History, scientific and theoretical conferences, fundamental works on the history of the country, scientific articles based on archival materials have been widely published. The authors tried to study the results of comprehensive research conducted based on state programs adopted in 2000, such as “Cultural Heritage”, “People in the flow of history”, “Archive–2025”.