Traditional winter trip around Karkaraly
Members of the local history
club of the Department of History of Kazakhstan and Social and Political
Sciences visited Karkaraly on the weekend of January 19-21. L.V. Kovalenko, the head of Physical Education
Center of NCJSC "KMU", kindly provided our group of students,
residents, and teachers with sports equipment, including skis and ski boots. The
minibus brought us to Karkaraly, where we spent the late afternoon of Friday
admiring the sights of the snow-covered mountain slopes around the town, which
is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year!
In fact, the goal of such visits is to encourage a healthy lifestyle among our university's students, residents, and faculty members, as well as to familiarize them with the sights of our region, the history, and geography of Eurasia! Following a walk and dinner at the Orman Guest House, we listened to interesting speeches and presentations by members of our club.
My colleague's speech was met with applause. It is remarkable that new, young members of our little community, including one of the best students of Karaganda's gymnasium No. 1 and 6 "A" grade student Gaufler Arkady, participated in the trip to Karkaraly. Also there was the youngest participant, Aldiyar, who is just one and a half years old and the son of two young doctors who are residents of our university and have been long-time members of the club, Assel and Shakhmadiyar. He took part in hiking with his parents in the nearby mountains and woodlands and attended club meetings in the evenings.
According to Lev Bazilev, a third-year student, skiing in the winter in Karkaraly woods and club meetings in the evenings sparked his interest. Other regular members of our group, including teachers Evgeny Kotov, Assistant Professor of the Department of Morphology, and A.S. Lamanova, Assistant Professor of our department, shared the same opinion. It should be noted that new members of our club were awarded badges with the symbols of the local history club (which were prepared and ordered by our club's monitor, Adel Abenova in Astana), and all speakers were awarded special certificates from the department signed by the head of the department, Svetlana Nikiforova.
Head of the local history club, A.B. Dolgopolov