Address: Akmola region, tselinograd district, akmol village, str. Building 2b
Operating mode: from tuesday to sunday from 09:00 to 18:00. the day off is monday.
Opening hours of the ticket office: from 09:00 to 17:00
Duration: 45 minutes
Age limit: no
Visiting rules: visiting the museum in compliance with all sanitary standards
Excursion program:
- meeting guests
- conducting an excursion
- seeing off guests
The museum and memorial complex of victims of political repression and totalitarianism «algiers», a unique monument to the victims of mass terror of the 30-50s of the twentieth century, the only one in the territory of the post-soviet space, was opened on the initiative of the first president of the republic of kazakhstan -elbasy n. A. Nazarbayev on may 31, 2007 in the village of akmol tselinograd district of akmola region on the territory of the former akmola camps of wives of traitors to the motherland. The opening of the museum was timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the adoption in 1997 of the «decree on the establishment of the day of remembrance of victims of political repression — may 31», the 70th anniversary of the beginning of mass political repression that claimed millions of lives.
The museum complex consists of the «Stalin wagon», the monument of the arch of sorrow, the sculptural compositions «Struggle and hope», «Despair and impotence», the guard tower and the fence of the camp with barbed wire, the stele «Tears», the wall of memory, a barrack with a diorama «the removal of children from the prisoners of the camp «Algeria», the park «Alash», memorials and museum buildings.
the museum’s exposition is presented on two floors. The exposition of the hall «alash» presents the history of kazakhstan since the entry of kazakhstan into the tsarist empire, as well as the soviet period, the mass repressions of 1937.
More than 18 thousand women passed through the gulag camps, they were constantly transferred from one camp to another. About 8 thousand women served time in «algeria» from beginning to end. They were mostly wives of well-known state, political and public figures whose names are widely known throughout the post-soviet space: aziza ryskulova and her mother arifa yesengulova, damesh zhurgeneva, rabiga asfendiyarova, singer lydia ruslanova, writer galina serebryakova, women from the family of the executed marshal tukhachevsky, the wife of writer boris pilnyak kira andronnikoshvili, yuri trifonov evgenia lurie, mother of bulat okudzhava and maya Plisetskaya.