On March 15, a festive event called “Nauryz - a common holiday of the Iranian-Turkic peoples” was held at the Department of the Middle East and South Asia. The event was attended by the Consul General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Almaty, Muhsin Fagani, the newly appointed head of the cultural representation at the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Almaty, Hussein Agazade, the ethnographer Bolat Bopauly, representatives of “Otbassy Khrestomatiyasy” Publishing House, as well as guests from far abroad: doctoral student of the University of Warsaw Linda Masalski (Poland), professor of the Ritsumeikan University Kim Victoria (Japan), professor of the University of New South Wales James Edric Alan Webb (Australia). The cultural representation of Iran presented to the attention of the guests the traditional Iranian table “Seven Sin”. At the celebration, students showed prepared presentations and read poems in Persian. The evening ended with a festive table.