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

Sar­yarka — Steppe and Lakes of North­ern Kaza­khstan com­pris­es two pro­tect­ed areas: Nau­rzum State N…

Set around the lush Tan­baly Gorge, amidst the vast, arid Chu-Ili moun­tains, is a remark­able conce…

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

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

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

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

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

The deep­est point of the USSR.

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

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

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

Blue-roofed. Fea­tures dis­plays on Kaza­kh his­to­ry, from pre­his­toric times through the Mon­gol perio…

XIV-XV cen­turies. Among the peo­ple there are such ref­er­ences to the mosque — in the Oguz-Kipchak …