For­mer admin­is­tra­tive cen­ter. Since the cap­i­tal was moved to Astana, this square has been ren­o­vat­ed. TV sta­tions occu­py some build­ings. There are flower gar­dens. There is also a Kaza­kh memo­r­i­al, con­sist­ing of a tall stat­ue of the gold­en boy, an ear­ly Kaza­kh fig­ure, whose name is Altyn Adam, and cir­cled by met­al bas relief pan­els recount­ing the his­to­ry of Kaza­khstan, from the time of the fierce Ama­­zon-like queen, to inde­pen­dence 10 years ago.