August 29, 2021 marks exactly 30 years since the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, an event that played an important role in the history of the development of the entire world community and the global anti-nuclear movement.

At least 456 nuclear tests were carried out at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, which affected more than one and a half million people. On August 29, 1991, the President of the Kazakh SSR N.A. Nazarbayev signed the Decree "On the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site."

Kazakhstan deserved recognition in the world for the unprecedented act of closing a nuclear test site. Kazakhstan's peacekeeping example inspired on December 2, 2009 the UN General Assembly to proclaim August 29 as the International Day against Nuclear Tests.

For the memorable date, the Library of Elbasy prepared a video dedicated to the humanistic mission of Kazakhstan - the liberation of the planet from weapons of mass destruction and building a world free of nuclear weapons.