August 29, 2021 marks exactly 30 years since the establishment of STS closure date

August 29, 2021 marks exactly 30 years since the Semipalatinsk Test Site closure date – the event that played an important role in the history of the global community and the global anti-nuclear movement development.

At the Semipalatinsk Test Site, not less 456 nuclear tests were carried out affecting more than one and a half million people. On August 29, 1991, the President of the Kazakh SSR, N.A. Nazarbayev, signed a Decree on “Closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site”.

Kazakhstan became an internationally recognized around the world for the unprecedented act of closing a nuclear test site. On December 2, 2009, the peacekeeping example of Kazakhstan inspired the UN General Assembly to declare 29th of August as the International Day against Nuclear Tests.

For the commemorative date, the Library of Yelbasy prepared a video dedicated to the humanist mission of Kazakhstan – to free the planet from weapons of mass destruction and to build a Nuclear-Weapon-Free world.