On February 6, at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Faculty of Philology, was held an open curatorial hour under the guidance of PhD Burkitbayeva Shynaray Dubirovna with the title “Past and present of Kazakhstan” for 1st year students from Turkmenistan. The teachers of department Turkology and the theory of language - Burkitbayeva Shynaray and deputy director on educational, methodical and educational work Eshmetova Balzhan also took part in the curatorial hour. The purpose of the curatorial hour was to inform foreign students about the culture of our country. The participants were informed about origin of the ethnonym "Kazakh", about the importance of Kazakh people on the historical stage, also about ancient and modern culture of our nation. Through the curatorial hour were asked questions and were a discussions about the process of formation and division of spiritual culture of the Turkic people as a whole. As the all students are Turks, we discussed Nauryz, our common traditions and dishes from milk inherited from our ancestors. We shared information about well known arts and educational institutions of Kazakhstan, Almaty's museums, theatres and libraries, which will provide academic and spiritual knowledge for our international students. The curatorial lesson was led by 1st year masters from the Turkic Philology Department Almakhan Aksunkar, Kutlymuratova Aziza and Ibragim Aina as practical lessons. In conclusion, I can say that we have given a lot of information about our country and language to students who came from Turkmenistan in search of education, information about our culture, the current path of development and contribution that we can make to the Turkic people as philologists. As we exchanged views, indeed, we once again realised how close and open to innovation our peoples are.

Ibragim Aina 

1st year master student of Turkic philology

Department of Turkology and Theory of Language