Seven Margins of the Great Steppe. President’s instructions
Following the article, we have identified twelve tasks set by the Head of State:
1. To create a seven-year program “Archive-2025”;
2. To create an educational Park-Encyclopedia “The Great Names of the Great Steppe” in the open air, where sculptural monuments will be displayed;
3. To initiate the formation of a gallery of images of great thinkers, poets and rulers of the past in contemporary literature, music, theater, and visual arts;
4. To create and distribute a popular science series “Outstanding persons of the Great Steppe”;
5. To launch a project “Turkic civilization: from the beginnings to the present”;
6. It is also important to create a single online library of common Turkic works following the example of Wikipedia, of which Kazakhstan can act as a moderator;
7. As part of the promotion of Turkestan as a new regional center, it is necessary to strengthen its positioning on the international arena;
8. To create a Museum of ancient art and technology of the Great Steppe “Uly Dala”;
9. To create a National Club of historical reconstructions "The Great Civilizations of the Great Steppe” and to hold on its basis festivals in Astana and the regions of Kazakhstan;
10. A tourist project for the partial restoration of the ancient city of Otyrar with the reconstruction of urban objects;
11. In the framework of a project “A Thousand Years of Steppe Folklore and Music” to create an “Anthology of Steppe Folklore”. To publish the collection “Ancient motifs of the Great Steppe”. It is necessary to organize a series of research expeditions to various regions of Kazakhstan and other countries to search for common historical foundations of the folklore tradition.
12. To launch into production a special cycle of documentary-production films, television series and full-length art films demonstrating the continuity of the civilizational history of Kazakhstan.
