December 10. Kazinform's timeline of major events
Kazinform's Timeline is the one-stop shop where you can learn about historical events for the 10th of December. See what notable events happened throughout Kazakhstan's history on December 10.
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1930 – The first Kazakh State Medical Institute is founded in Kazakhstan. In 1963 it is renamed as the Alma-Ata State Medical Institute. It is renamed after Sanzhar Asfendiyarov in 1989. The President of Kazakhstan decrees to grant it the status of a national university in 2001.
1991 – The Supreme Council of the Kazakh SSR decrees to rename the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic as the Republic of Kazakhstan.
1991 – The inauguration ceremony of the first elected President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, takes place in Almaty where the Head of State swears into office.
1991 – President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev decrees to set up the Diamond Fund.
1996 – The Republic of Kazakhstan established diplomatic relations with Serbia. The Serbian Embassy is inaugurated in Astana in 2011. The Kazakh Embassy is unveiled in Serbia in 2019.
1997 – Akmola is declared the capital city of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Prior to that Almaty city was the capital city of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2010 – A monument to Hero of the Soviet Union and participation of the World War II Bauyrzhan Momyshuly is unveiled in Almaty.
2013 – The OIC Council of Foreign Ministers establishes the Islamic Organization for Food Security with headquarters in Astana.
2014 – ‘Kazakhstan is the center of Eurasia’ book is published in the Italian language by one of the biggest local publishing houses. The book is dedicated to history, culture, literature, and philology of Kazakhstan.
2016 – The unveiling ceremony of the Astana Ballet Theater takes place in Astana.
2019 – The memorial plate honoring victims and veterans of the Semipalatinsk testing site is unveiled in Shymkent.
2021 – 'Continuous statehood of Kazakhstan in the flow of history. Kazakh state in the European and American maps of XVI-XIX centuries’ book by M. Sydyknazarov in presented in Brussels.
