The development of a new humanitarian education in Kazakhstan and Italy, and the study of little-known pages of history were discussed at the Institute of State History with the participation of Maria Teresa Giusti, PhD, Professor of the Gabriele d’Annuzio State University (Kieti Pescara, Italy). M. T. Giusti is the author of 18 articles and 8 monographs in publications belonging to the international group “A-rated journal” (Q1), including the work “Italian military in the USSR, 1941-1954”, translated into Russian. At the meeting, the Director of the Institute, PhD N.Pusyrmanov noted: “Kazakhstan and Italy have rich historical traditions, despite the geographical gap, their history has been intertwined for many centuries. In the Middle Ages, famous Italians such as Marco Polo and Giovanni de Plano Carpini toured Jochi ulus, marking the beginning of cultural and educational exchange between our peoples. However, it is important to remember that our history is not limited to famous names only. Your works reveal the history of thousands of Italian prisoners of war who visited the former USSR, including Kazakhstan, in the 1940s.” After the meeting, Giusti, an Italian historian and researcher, gave a professorial lecture on the political, cultural and economic ties between the two countries in the last century, and Italians in Kazakhstan in the 1940s. A bilateral agreement was reached that the mutually reliable collaboration would be continued with new interdisciplinary research.