According to historians, in just two years from 1937 to 1938, about one hundred thousand residents were repressed in the Republic, and a quarter of this list was physically destroyed.
Among them are famous politicians, military men and writers Saken Seifullin, Turar Ryskulov, Beimbet Mailin, Magazi Masanchi, Sanzhar Asfendiyarov, Magzhan Zhumabayev, Abdulla Rozybakiev, Ilyas Zhansugurov and a number of other best people of the republic.
In 1997, the First President of Kazakhstan signed a decree recognizing May 31 as the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Repression. Since then, every year the inhabitants of our great country commemorate their relatives and friends who did not return from the camps, or died of starvation.
