Museum and memorial complex Algeria

Museum and memorial complex of victims of political repressions and totalitarianism "Algeria" was opened on the site of the infamous Akmolinsk camp of wives of traitors - "Algeria", which over the years contained more than 18 thousand women. Women whose only fault was that they were just wives arrested, executed "enemies of the people." Museum, whose building is in the shape of a truncated cone - is a kind of box with mysteries, keeper of sadness. The building has no windows, the light falls on the exhibits from above, as if lifting the veil of secrecy. Entrance to the museum is through the tunnel, the walls of which the painting, reflecting a difficult period of life of Kazakh people during mass political repressions. Exposition of the museum is located on two floors. In the hall "Alash" presents the history of Kazakhstan from the moment of entry into the Russian Empire and the Soviet period.Ekspozitsiya "Deportation" reflects the political repression against entire peoples. More than 1.3 million. People were deported to Kazakhstan, were subjected to forced resettlement Germans, Turks, Koreans, Poles, Chechens, Crimean Tatars. Not on their own people came to Kazakhstan, but most of them stayed here, considering it as their homeland.