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Chronicle, records and everything that has happened

The Association is 12 years old. This is where everything that has already happened is collected: conferences and decisions, classes year by year, publications about the Lyceum.

Participants of the Arystan Lyceum graduates’ meeting, 27 September 2026, Almaty
Association Chronicle27 September 2026

A family that must live forever

On 27 September, graduates of the Arystan Specialized Lyceum came together for the first time in four years. Around 150 people in a hall in Almaty and online from other cities, the first head of the Lyceum, parents and teachers, more than twenty proposals and one shared idea: it is time to stop waiting and act ourselves.

The twelfth graduation of the Arystan Lyceum in the Park of 28 Panfilov Guardsmen, 12 June 2024
Class Records12 June 2024

The twelfth class, 2024

The graduation took place in Almaty, in the Park of 28 Panfilov Guardsmen. Over thirteen years, more than 900 students have studied at the Lyceum.

Arystan Lyceum class of 2023
Class Records23 June 2023

Class of 2023

80 graduates, 45 of whom chose military universities of the security and defence agencies. Average UNT score: 98.55.

Conference of the Graduates Association, 16 October 2022
Association Chronicle16 October 2022

The 2022 Conference. An Honorary Member of the Association

At the 2022 Conference, Major General (Ret.) Sabit Taulanov, the first head of the Lyceum, was elected an Honorary Member of the Graduates Association.

Awarding Arystan Lyceum graduates for 2021
Association Chronicle1 March 2022

Association report for 2021

The Association’s first year as a Public Association: eight Conferences in seven years, new governing bodies and the first payments to graduates.

Meeting of the Graduates Association, 3 October 2021
Association Chronicle3 October 2021

The Association’s 2021 meeting

More than 300 graduates in person and online, classes from 2013 to 2021. The best-attended meeting in the Association’s history.

The Arystan Lyceum in a Kazakhstanskaya Pravda article, June 2021
In the Press29 June 2021

“A School for Leaders”. Kazakhstanskaya Pravda on the Lyceum

For the Lyceum’s tenth anniversary, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda took stock of its first ten years: 717 students, 35 honours certificates, 16 “Altyn Belgi” badges.

Extraordinary Conference of the Graduates Association, 14 February 2021
Association Chronicle14 February 2021

New status, new opportunities

At an extraordinary Conference on 14 February 2021, the Association announced its status as a Public Association and approved the Regulations on financial rewards and assistance for graduates.

Class Records12 June 2019

480 Arystan graduates in eight years

By 2019 the Lyceum had produced six classes. And it named a figure found nowhere else: sixteen families of brothers.

Meeting of the Graduates Association at the Arystan Lyceum, 24 September 2017
Association Chronicle24 September 2017

Back home. The first lieutenants

The 2017 meeting was a special one: by then the first Arystan graduates had completed military universities and received officer ranks.

Meeting of Arystan Lyceum graduates, 27 September 2015
Association Chronicle27 September 2015

Our warm home with a big heart

A year after the Association was founded, 103 graduates from the first three years came to the Lyceum. That was also when the tradition took hold: meeting on the last Sunday of September.

Founding meeting of graduates at the Arystan Lyceum, 28 September 2014
Association Chronicle28 September 2014

28 September 2014. How the Association began

The history of the Graduates Association starts with this meeting at the Lyceum. It adopted the Regulations and elected the first Coordination Council.

Class Records10 June 2014

Where the class of 2014 went

An average UNT score of 99.1, with 61% of the class scoring over 100. The only complete breakdown of admissions by institution in the archive.

The first graduating class of the Arystan Lyceum, 11 June 2013
Class Records11 June 2013

The first class, 2013

79 lyceum students and an average UNT score of 92.57. The starting point of the whole Arystan chronicle.