We are faithful to this memory

 

Film documents give

opportunity to feel

the taste and color of a bygone era.

S. Eisenstein

On the eve of the celebration of the 77th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications named after Gumarbek Daukeyev and the Central State Archive of Film Documents and Sound Recording of the Republic of Kazakhstan held a joint meeting of students with the staff of the archive "We are faithful to this memory."

The Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan is a unique and one of a kind archive of the visual memory of the country. Film documents dating back to the 20s of the last century are stored here: about 50 thousand items; 200 thousand photo storage units and 17 thousand audio document storage units.

The meeting began with a lecture by the Deputy Director of the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan S.A. Satayeva "Film documents during the Great Patriotic War". She spoke about the work of the Central United Film Studio. It was formed after the evacuation of Lenfilm and Mosfilm during the war years (1941-1944) in Almaty. S.A. Sataeva spoke about the service of cameramen on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Thanks to their dedication and heroism, we now have the opportunity to get in touch with living history and “feel the taste and color” of those fiery years.

The lecture was for 20 minutes. Then the students watched a film based on newsreel footage, starting with a rally in the park. M. Gorky. There, the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Zh. Shayakhmetov announced the beginning of the war. The students watched footage of military operations near Moscow, besieged Leningrad and ending with footage of the hoisting of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag by a group of Soviet soldiers, which included our fellow countryman Rakhimzhan Koshkarbaev.

The participants honored the memory of the victims with a minute of silence. Demonstrating the connecting thread of times and the continuity of generations against the background of a screen with military newsreel, students of AUPET Bakytbek Perizat (EAEMk 21-3), Abdigaliev Yerlan (SISk-21-8), Aldungarov Abulkhair (SIS 21-11), Kadyrkhan Elzhas (EEa 21-1), Boranbaev Azamat (EEa 21-5), Amantai Sayazhan (SISk 21-5), Aptoreeva Shapagat (EAEMk-21-1), Shubai Ramazan (SISk-21-4) spoke to the audience. The chants of the war years, the songs "Cranes", "The Blue Handkerchief", poems by K. Simonov "Wait for me", Zh. Zhabaev "Leningraders, my children" sounded from the stage, kui were performed. The popular "Darkie" was sung along with the audience.

Head of the Department for Language Studies M.M. Tuleup and head of the department “Social Disciplines” B.Zh. Kabdushevs spoke to students and archive staff. They emphasized the importance of this meeting, talked about the contribution made by the people of Kazakhstan to the Great Victory. The materials that are so carefully stored in the Central State Archive of Film, Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan are the documentary memory of the country. Without the memory of the past, there is no future. On this foundation our future must be built. Students visited an exhibition dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. There they saw front-line photographs of a veteran of the AUPET, a well-known statesman and public figure, Professor K.G. Akhmetov. They studied the work of the archive, the process of digitizing film documents on film editing and sound editing tables purchased in 2012 in France. Restoration of the film is carried out on this equipment. Restoration of the film of the film "Soldier of Victory" by A. Alpiev, which tells about Kazakhstani Rakhimzhan Koshkarbaev, and the film "The Last Film Frames of the War" by director I. Savin about newsreel Ya.K. Smirnov was demonstrated. The staff of the archive showed the conditions for storing film and negatives in the funds. They spoke about the importance of preventive work and the creation of a digital database of the archive. Access to the archive's digital database is open through the website of the Central State Archive of Film, Photo, Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan. There you can get information about the availability of the document and even see its digital copy.

The meeting marked the beginning of cooperation between the archive and the university. The students expressed their desire to visit the archive again and get to know it better. Employees of the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan offered students after graduation to come to work in the only and largest technical archive of audiovisual documents in Central Asia. Here they need young professionals who own modern digital technologies.

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