Today Kazakhstan celebrates Knowledge Day

ALMATY. September 1. KAZINFORM The 1st of September, aka Knowledge Day, is celebrated today across many CIS member countries and former Soviet republics: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.

It symbolizes the start of another school year for schoolchildren and teachers at schools and students and professors at universities.

This is the most anticipated holiday for Grade 1 students who will cross the threshold of their schools for the first time ever.

The first day of September also has a sweet tradition of the First Bell when a first grade girl rings the bell signalizing the beginning of the school year.