The meeting was attended by the Deputy Chairman of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg Andrei Khlutkov, a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Kazakh society of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region "Ata-Meken".
Nikolai Linchenko congratulated the Kazakhstani side on the upcoming spring holiday "Navruz" and noted that the meeting was taking place at an important moment for Kazakhstan: the day before the long-term leader of the people of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev resigned. The gratitude to Nazarbayev for his great personal contribution to the development of bilateral allied relations between Kazakhstan and Russia and the successful implementation of the Eurasian integration project was expressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
During the conversation, the parties discussed the current status and prospects of bilateral cooperation between St. Petersburg and the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Particular attention was paid to the installation of the monument in St. Petersburg to the Hero of the Soviet Union, Aliya Moldagulova, which is scheduled on May of this year.
"I am grateful to all the executive authorities that have helped us in implementing our plans all this time and appreciated the artistic and aesthetic value of this monument," said Bolat Imanbaev, Consul General of the Republic of Kazakhstan in St. Petersburg.
Reference: Aliya Moldagulova was born on October 25, 1925 in the village of Bulak, Khobdinsky district, Aktobe region. In the autumn of 1939, the 14-year-old Aliya got into the orphanage No. 46. All the pupils of this orphanage studied at the Leningrad school No. 9 (now No. 140).
In June 1941, with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Aliya Moldagulova remained in Leningrad. September 8, 1941 the Siege of Leningrad began. In March 1942, together with the orphanage, she was transported from besieged Leningrad to the village of Vyatskoye, Yaroslavl Region. At the end of the 7th grade of the Vyatka secondary school, on October 1, 1942, Aliya entered the Rybinsk Aviation Technical School, but after three months applied for the Red Army with a request to send her to the front.
In May 1943, the Central Women's School of Sniper Training was created in Moscow, where Aliya Moldagulova got to the first intake.
In July 1943, Aliya, along with several of her fellow classmates, was sent to the 54th Infantry Brigade (22nd Army, 2nd Baltic Front) as a sniper. By the official account she destroyed 78 enemy soldiers and officers.
She was mortally wounded and died in battle on January 14, 1944 north of the city of Novosokolniki; being wounded in a hand by a mine shard, she participated in hand-to-hand combat with German soldiers, was again wounded by a German officer, whom she also destroyed, the second wound was fatal.
On June 4, 1944, Aliya Nurmukhambetovna Moldagulova was posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. She was also awarded the Order of Lenin.