Photo-documentary exhibition “Ult maktanyshy zhane kosemi” dedicated to Myrzhakyp Dulatov

Employees of the Beimbet Mailin Museum of History and Local Lore organized a 
photo-documentary exhibition “Ult maktanyshy zhane kosemi” dedicated to Myrzhakyp Dulatov.
 The exhibition includes unique photographs and documents of Myrzhakyp Dulatov. 
Myrzhakyp Dulatov is a major representative of Kazakh culture and literature of the early 
20th century, poet, writer, public figure, one of the spiritual leaders of the national 
liberation movement “Alash”. He actively participated in the organization of the national 
movement and the Alash party, wrote the program of the Alash party.

In 1928 he was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activities and in 1930 he was 
sentenced to death. The death penalty was later replaced by 10 years in the camps. 
Myrzhakyp Dulatov was exiled to the Solovetsky special purpose camp. Here he died on October 
5, 1935. Only in November 1988, Myrzhakyp Dulatov was posthumously rehabilitated. In 1992,
 a mausoleum was built in the homeland of Myrzhakyp Dulatov and the remains of the great son 
of the Kazakh people were transported from the Sosnovets station of the Karelian Autonomous 
Soviet Socialist Republic by an expedition formed in Torgay and reburied with honors.