SHYMKENT MAYOR CONGRATULATED THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR VETERAN

On the instructions of the President of the country, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, 40 veterans living in Shymkent have been awarded commemorative medals for the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory and congratulatory letters.
On the eve of the holiday, the city mayor Murat Aitenov visited the Great Patriotic war veteran Sarsen Abdinurov, handed him a commemorative medal and read a congratulatory letter from the President.
The veteran was born on December 22, 1922. During the war, he served in the 368th and then in the 823rd rifle regiment. Then he fought in the group of 1st Ukrainian front and reached Berlin. After the end of the war, he served in the Soviet army in Germany until 1947.
After returning home, he worked at the post office and managed the cultural sector. After graduating from the Kazakh State University in Almaty, from 1961 to 1971, he held responsible positions in the field of Internal Affairs of Shymkent region. From 1971 to retirement, he worked in a responsible position in the Employment Department.
During the war, Sarsen Abdinurov was awarded the order of the Patriotic war II degree, medals "For the victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945", Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov and other awards.
It should be noted that each of 40 veterans of GPW in Shymkent will receive one million tenge from the Shymkent city mayor's office for the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Press service of Shymkent city mayor