Teachers and students of KSIU, as well as representatives of several Temirtau  ethno-cultural associations expressed their gratitude to Kazakhstan and the Kazakh people for the support of different peoples during the hard years of repression.

On January 14, 2016, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, by his decree, established a new holiday in the country – the Day of Gratitude, which is now celebrated on March 1, the day of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan. The celebration of the Day of Gratitude was proposed by the Head of State at the jubilee session of the Assembly devoted to the 20th anniversary of its creation. Day of gratitude is a holiday of friendship, understanding and consent, which are so necessary for a peaceful life in a country where more than 130 nations and nationalities live

In the 30 years of the last century during the collectivization in Kazakhstan, 250 thousand dekulakized peasants were exiled. Under the Stalin regime, entire nations were deported in different years: 800,000 Germans, 102,000 Poles, 550,000 people from the North Caucasus and about 100,000 Korean families from the Far East.

The Day of Gratitude represents the preservation and development of the unity of the multinational Kazakhstan on the basis of a common history, the memory of the joint difficulties experienced through the support of the Kazakhs and all ethnic groups to each other and to the Kazakhs. The main idea of ​​the round table held at the KSIU is to show the tragedy of the destiny of the people expelled to Kazakhstan. After the welcome speech of the deputy akim of the city of Temirtau, Dauren Yesimkhanov, and the speeches of Oksana Humenchuk, head of the department “HK and SHD”, whose family was deported to Kazakhstan many years ago, students of the KSIU Tatyana Silaeva, Saveliy Elefteriadi, Lamara Sultaeva, Zemfira Atakulova and Leonid Kim made speeches. They, not hiding emotions, and sometimes even with tears in their eyes, told about the department of different peoples in Kazakhstan, based on the stories of their families.

“Day of gratitude is first and foremost the day of the triumph of the presidential policy of peace and accord, thanks to which peace and harmony, mutual trust and respect of the people of our country reign supreme in Kazakhstan, who has lived all difficult times shoulder to shoulder,” said the event moderator, the head of the department “The Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan”, PhD in Philosophy, Professor Tatyana Semenova. – Within a short period of time, we built an independent prosperous Kazakhstan under the leadership of our President. It is a day of spiritual traditions of charity and readiness to share with one’s open soul, to help each other, as our people did in the years of repression and deportation.

In the final of the event, each participant wrote words of gratitude and wishes to his native Kazakhstan on a white banner specially installed in the lobby of the KSIU. And then all the guests went out into the street and launched balloons of the same color into the blue clear sky, a symbol of peace and mutual understanding of the peoples living under a single shanyrak.

Press-service of KSIU