DUSHANBE, October 26, Asia-Plus  -- A ceremony of official opening of Kazakh National Cultural Center Bayterek (Tree of Life) was held in Dushanbe on October 25.

According to the Kazakh Embassy in Dushanbe, the opening of the Center was timed to coincide with Kazakhstan’s Day, which is marked on October 25.    

Kazakh Ambassador to Tajikistan Yerlan Abildayev inaugurating the Center said, “We have systemized all information about our Diaspora in Tajikistan, which now numbers some 900 people and provided them assistance with opening of the national cultural center.”  

“Before that, all meetings and events of the Kazakh Diaspora were being held in a regular city apartment; while now they have in their disposal a spacious house with training class and rehearsal hall that were equipped with necessary equipment due to assistance of Kazakh entrepreneurs,” the source at the Kazakh Embassy said.  

The Center chairwoman Zaure Saminova said that the Center will organize training courses on the Kazakh language, traditions and rituals for ethnic Kazakh living in Tajikistan.