Museum of Victims of Political Repression

Small museum, big history

How else would you learn about the atrocities that happened during Soviet reign over Kazakhstan? It's a one-room museum, filled with names of some of the victims of the repression. However, you receiv...

Nice, small museum!

This is rather an interesting museum in Shymkent, especially if you are interested in the Kazakh history and political oppression during the Soviet era. The museum doesn't have an English translation...

Friendly staff, not in English

This is a small museum located across from Abai park near the corner of Ryskulbekov & N Torequlov streets. The staff person on duty was friendly and chatted with us at length about the museum as she s...

Small Museum, not in English

It might be pretty interesting if you are able to speak Kazakh or Russian. For me who's Russian is not that good I didn't have much idea what all the texts are about. The staff doesn't speak English...

Check address; well worth while

The museum covers a part of Kazakh history all too often ignored. Not just in Kazakhstan but the whole former Soviet Union. The events during the Stalinist era were all the more tragic for the Kazakh...