This is already unclassified

On the eve of the Day of Remembrance of Political Repression, an exhibition of grief was decorated in the library of the Kostanay Higher College of Kazpotrebsoyuz Institution: «This is already unclassified.» The number of those repressed in Kostanay region is enormous.This figure reaches 7 thousand people, of whom 3 thousand were shot. And this list is not final. Kostanay employees are still searching for new names, including in the Almaty archives.

Criminal cases in which 4,349 persons were illegally convicted and subsequently rehabilitated are kept in the special state archive of the department. 1,251 people, or more than 30% of the total number of those repressed, were sentenced to capital punishment in Kostanay region. “Women were also convicted and shot. 24 female nuns were shot in two group cases of so-called “Churchmen” alone.Kostanay Region was one of the places of settlement of deported Germans, Koreans, Ingush, Chechens, etc. On May 31, the city’s public, relatives of the deported and repressed gather in Victory Park at the monument to victims of political repression to honor their memory. The college library contains data on deportees in the Kostanay region, the book of sorrow, Alashardins, Alash kozgalys, Pages of tragic fates compiled by Gribanova E.M., About my time by Tufik Kurdaev, This should not happen again by Dick Valda, collections of works by Akhmet Baitursynov and Beimbet Mailin.

Head of the library Kurmangalieva Kulbarshin Umurzakovna