28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
Battlefield archaeology activities of the Military Historical Museum of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan
30.01.2020
The battlefield archaeology department of the Military Historical Museum of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan conducts the search and archival work of search information about Kazakhstan soldiers who were missing or killed in action upon the Great Patriotic War.
In 2020, we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Over a number of years, information about the exact location of the military graves of their ancestors remained unavailable to most Kazakh families, and so far more than 100 thousand Kazakhstan soldiers have been reported dead or missing in action.
To achieve battlefield archaeology goals, we’re using databases with the information about soldiers missing and killed in action, internet resources and previously confidential sources from CIS and foreign countries. Including foreign archives and unclassified reports on irreplaceable combat losses of the Red Army in 1941 – 1945 years.
In addition, joint work is being conducted with regional historical and local historical museums, archives, research scientists, archivists, battlefield archaeologists non-governmental organization “Atamnyn Amanaty” and local military administrative bodies.
As of January 2020, the Military Historical Museum of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan received 556 applications from relatives of the war veterans. According to 48 applications, the information on the location of the primary burials has been established.
38 of them are located in the Russian Federation (Rostov Region, Matveevo-Kurgan District; Oryol Region, Ulyanovsk Region; Karelo-Finnish SSR, Petrovsky District, etc.);
4 - on the territory of Hungary (v. Mike-Perch, western outskirts);
2 - in Latvia (Karsaevsky county);
2 - in Germany (Brandenburg, the village of Neu-Levin, mass grave);
1 - in Poland (Masovian settlement);
1 - Belarus (Polesie region);
From 3 to 5 applications are received daily.
According to an experienced battlefield archaeologist with forty years of experience, the commander of the search squad “Memorial Zone”, Maidan Kusainov, there are numerous methods for searching for missing soldiers: from archive-field works to Internet search. Now various groups and communities in social networks are becoming a powerful resource in resolving the issue of finding fallen warriors.
The department plans include improvement of battlefield archaeology activities and perpetuating the memory of returned names by organizing trips to the burial places in the CIS and European countries, giving tribute to honored dead and conducting the last military ceremonies for heroes, who had won the Great Victory for all of us.
https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mod/press/news/details/poiskovo-ekspedicionnaya-deyatelnost-voenno-istoricheskogo-muzeya-vs-rk?lang=ru
