Aktobe International Airport has been named after the famous sniper Aliya Moldagulova, VRK News reports.
As reported on the website of the akimat (regional administration) of Aktobe region, the corresponding resolution of the Government of Kazakhstan has been issued.
“In accordance with subparagraph 4-1) of Article 10 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 8 December 1993 ‘On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of the Republic of Kazakhstan’ and Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 281 of 5 March 1996 ‘On Approval of the Rules for Naming Airports, Ports, Railway Stations, Metro Stations, Bus Stations, Physical-Geographical and Other State-Owned Facilities in the Territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as for Renaming, Clarifying and Changing the Transcription of Their Names and Assigning the Personal Names of Individuals to State Legal Entities and Legal Entities with State Participation’, the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan decrees: to give Joint-Stock Company Aktobe International Airport the name of Aliya Moldagulova,” the resolution says.
The Kazakh girl Aliya Moldagulova was a famous Soviet sniper who served during the Great Patriotic War in the 54th Separate Rifle Brigade of the 22nd Army of the 2nd Baltic Front, with the rank of lance corporal. Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, posthumously). She killed 78 enemy soldiers and officers.
