As a part of preparation for celebration of a great holiday, the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, S. Beisembayev Scientific Library of S. Toraighyrov PSU held a session of the Inspiration club entirely devoted to Aliya Moldagulova, a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Aliya Moldagulova (1925 - 1944) was a Soviet sniper during the Great Patriotic War and served as a corporal in the 54th Infantry Brigade, 22th Army of the 2nd Baltic Front.

Aliya Moldagulova was awarded the title of a Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously on June 4, 1944. She was also awarded the Order of Lenin. There is a street named after her in Almaty, and many songs, books and films were dedicated to her.

“Aliya Moldagulova, or Liya as she usually signed her letters, was a young girl who became a symbol of unparalleled courage and unfading glory of our people,” says Gulzhan Ishimova, an undergraduate student of the Faculty of Agricultural Technology.

“Speaking of that war, we must also mention our fellow townsmen. Over 46,000 people from Pavlodar were called up, many of them went all the way from Stalingrad to Berlin. Nearly 22,000 of those brave people never returned back home. We are proud of them all, and especially those who was awarded the title of a Hero of the Soviet Union, e.g. I. Krivenko, K. Kairbayev, I. Sklyarov, I. Ledovskiy, S. Makovskiy, and many more,” said Yelena Likhanova, a librarian of the Imaginative Literature sector and the Library of the People of Kazakhstan.

There was also a declamation contest entitled “The War Reflected in Poetry”. It was held for students of the Department of Russian Philology. Natalya Kosenkova, Aygerim Kozkina, Tatyana Doroshenko, and Gaukhar Musa were among the participants.