On October 30, 2015 an international scientific-theoretical conference “The Kazakh khanate – the Republic of Kazakstan: the problems of formation, succession and statehood development” dedicated to the 550th anniversary of the Kazakh khanate was held at S. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University.

“Today, it has been once again emphasized that Kazakhstan has the history, which has formed the character and soul of the nation. We are the country of a Great Steppe, having its rich history and inseparable bond between past, present and future. Cohesion and unity are the main values of our nation. Patriotism and service to the Motherland based on knowledge of the historical past have always been considered as a core of an invincible spirit of any nation. It is said that a state is unwinnable if its citizens know its history and are proud of it,” said the vice-rector for development strategy, educational and social affairs of S. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor Arman Akishev.

One of honorary guests of the event was Bereket Karibayev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the faculty of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

In his welcome address to the participants of the conference, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, the head of the Department of Archeology, Ethnology and Museology of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Amanzhol Kalysh noted that “Kazakhs are the descendants of twenty five state formations, which existed in the territory of Kazakhstan”. Professor Kalysh also emphasized that the present-day territory of Kazakhstan is the ancestral domain of Protokazakhs.

The official part of the program included the speech delivered by Ziyabek Kabuldinov, the academic secretary of the National Congress of Historians, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. In his speech, he told about a several thousand years long history of statehood on the territory of Kazakhstan and about the beginning of its liquidation governed by the Russian Empire, he put forward a proposal to establish a PhD program in history at S. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University. Moreover, recommendations on creating a scientific-research institute of humanities, which would be named after an outstanding encyclopedist, folklorist, scholar and philosopher Mashkhur Zhussyp Kopeyev, in Pavlodar were proposed during the event.

Also S. Toraighyrov PSU’s library resources were supplemented by rare books that would be a useful aid for young scholars and students interested in studying the history of Kazakhstan.