Kazakhstan People's Unity Day
Kazakhstan People's Unity Day, also known as Unity Day, is a Public holiday in Kazakhstan which celebrates the Kazakh people and the Kazakh nation alongside inter-ethnic relations between ethnic Kazakhs and ethnic Russians. It is celebrated annually on May 1.
The holiday was first celebrated in 1996, due to the holiday being signed into law on October 18, 1995 by President Nursultan Nazarbayev, by which it also cancelled the Soviet era celebration of Labor Day.
Unity Day is a public holiday, so therefore most schools and businesses are closed for the day. In the capital, Nur-Sultan, numerous ethnic groups and will share cultural foods and the history of each culture.
