Today the country honors the memory of heroes who died during the Great Patriotic War. In Minsk"s Commonwealth Square they commemorated the Kazakhstani soldiers.Yergali Bulegenov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Belarus:"This is the story of our people. Therefore it is very important to keep all this and pass it to other countries."During the Great Patriotic dozens of thousands of soldiers from Kazakhstan were killed. 83 warriors were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for deeds committed in the battles for Belarus.