The authorities of Kazakhstan should stop assigning the names of Soviet figures to the country’s objects and create a list of their own “outstanding figures”, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said during a meeting of the National Kurultai in Turkestan.
According to him, onomastics (a branch of linguistics that studies proper names) is “the most important ideological tool of great importance for strengthening historical self-awareness.” “It is necessary to stop the practice of naming various objects of the figures of the Soviet period, whose biographies are deliberately mythologized for the sake of someone’s personal interests and preferences,” RBC quotes Tokayev’s statement.
According to the Kazakh leader, instead of them, “a single series of outstanding figures in the history of the people of the country” should be used, which will become one of the key “markers of national identity within the country and abroad.”
Tokayev also called for the regulation of onomastic procedures, taking into account national priorities.
Source: Rosbalt
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