Remembrance heartened with care: AlES JSC celebrates Victory Day
The employees of AlES JSC honoured their veterans on May 8, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory Day. 10 home front workers and 23 soldiers-internationalists and veterans of Chernobyl disaster mitigation are in the spotlight.
Solemn events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory were held on 8 May 2025 at CHPP-1 named after B.Orazbayev. Traditionally, employees of CHPP-1 laid flowers at the Victory obelisk on the territory of the station. Power engineers honored Malik Saidygulov, a machinist of the central thermal boiler control panel of the boiler shop, who performed tasks to protect the CIS border in the Tajikistan-Afghanistan area. The merits of Yuri Milyukhin, tractor driver of the motor transport section, who participated in liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986-1987, were also honoured. Veterans expressed their gratitude to the power engineers for their attention and memory. The station’s youth activists together with the trade union committee congratulated home front veterans Praskovya Aksenova and Alexey Korobkin.
CHPP-3 also honours traditions. The power engineers come in person every year to congratulate veterans of the home front. This year four soldiers-internationalists and four home front workers accepted congratulations. Valentina Semyonovna Maksimenko, who turned 94 years old, was among them. Despite her age, her cheerfulness inspires the staff.
The ZTС staff congratulated two soldiers-internationalists, honored pensioners Yerlan Urkenbaev and Yermek Abylkasymov.
Three veterans were honored at CHPP-2 named after A.Zhakutov: Serikbay Yekeybaev, a mechanic of the turbine shop and an internationalist, as well as machinists Yerzhan Alimzhanov and Bagdat Mametov, who once guarded the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border.
Special words of gratitude were also expressed at Kapshagai HPP named after Sh.Chokin. Nikolay Cherkasov, a mechanic on repair of hydroturbine equipment at the station, noted: ‘It warms my heart that we are remembered. Everyone who took part in those events did their best to protect the peaceful population. I was 20 years old, I served in the 70th separate motorised rifle brigade. This is a memory we must cherish.
Nurtai Karachayev, now retired, spent his working life as a plasterer and painter at the Kapshagai HPP. At the age of 18, he was drafted into the army, served in Germany, and then in 1979-1980 performed international duty in Afghanistan, being part of the first stream. “We were protecting civilians, and God bless us that there will always be a peaceful sky above us,” – says the internationalist warrior. Today, Nurtai Karachayev remains part of the Kunayev community of Afghan veterans, which numbers about 50 people. They gather annually on 15 February and 9 May to remember those who remained on the battlefields and to support each other.
Three home front veterans and ten soldiers-internationalists were congratulated at Energoremont. They were: locksmiths Idiris Jaksygeldiyev, Gennady Mokrishchev, Valery Senchenko, Victor Barbankov, and welders Victor Nikolenko, Victor Moskalchuk, Saktapbergen Bokhayev, who served in Afghanistan.
All veterans of AlES JSC express their sincere gratitude to the company’s staff for attention, care and memory, which unites the generations and inspires for further work for the benefit of peace and prosperity.