A moun­tain, the height of which at a peak point reach­es 287 meters. Penary “fangs” are pre­ced­ed by the entrance to th…

The first and one of the largest nuclear test­ing grounds in the USSR, Offi­cial name: 2nd State Cen­tral Sci­en­tif­ic Res…

Its name Altyn-Emel trans­lates as “gold­en sad­dle”. From a dis­tance, the park’s land­scape real­ly looks like a sad­dle s…

The inte­ri­or dec­o­ra­tion of the muse­um is made by the hands of folk crafts­men and done with great skill. Upon enter­ing…

The largest Taras Shevchenko muse­um out­side of Ukraine is locat­ed in Kaza­khstan on the Mangysh­lak penin­su­la in the sm…

Area: 222,21001 sq. km., vol­ume: 651,76001 cubic meters, depth avg: 2,9000001 m, shore length: 180,34 m, res time: 15…

Hon­ors the men and women from Kaza­khstan who died on the bat­tle­fields of the WWII against the Nazis. There is an eter…

You will not be allowed to go inside. Nonethe­less, the scenery and archi­tec­ture is breath­tak­ing. If the guards are ou…

For­mer admin­is­tra­tive cen­ter. Since the cap­i­tal was moved to Astana, this square has been ren­o­vat­ed. TV sta­tions occu…

Blue-roofed. Fea­tures dis­plays on Kaza­kh his­to­ry, from pre­his­toric times through the Mon­gol peri­ods to the present. G…

Gor­geous red and orange sand­stone lay­ers. The Singing Dunes are also not too far. A day trip.

The nation­al muse­um moved to this new loca­tion in 2014. The muse­um is huge and very mod­ern with inter­ac­tive dis­plays …

Built like a yurt with a dome resem­bling a mosque. It con­tains exhi­bi­tions about the his­to­ry of the mil­i­tary of Kazak…

Com­plet­ed in 2012, it’s the largest mosque in Kaza­khstan and the sec­ond largest in Cen­tral Asia. A vast calm soar­ing …

The sec­ond largest mosque in Astana and the third largest in Cen­tral Asia, com­plet­ed in 2008. The dome area con­tains …

This is sit­u­at­ed north of the riv­er on the junc­tion of Abai Street and Bebeishe­lik Street. This mag­nif­i­cent build­ing …

The Mau­soleum of Kho­ja Ahmed Yasawi, in the town of Yasi, now Turkestan, was built at the time of Timur (Tamer­lane), …

Mount Sherkala (height 308 meters) is a large rem­nant of unusu­al shape that arose dur­ing the for­ma­tion of the Karatau…

The mon­u­ment is a domed sin­gle-cham­ber build­ing square in plan, sym­met­ri­cal with respect to the lon­gi­tu­di­nal axis pas…

The necrop­o­lis of Ush­tam, Ush­tam, an ensem­ble of the 10th–16th cen­turies, is locat­ed in Mangis­tau, 55 km north­east of…

The ear­li­est struc­tures here date back to the sec­ond half of the 17th cen­tu­ry. The necrop­o­lis devel­oped in time and s…