Almaty is the largest financial, economic and cultural city of Kazakhstan

the world’s top skaters. Medeo is a popular skating area for residents and guests of Almaty. Almaty Central Stadium accommodates 32,000 people. Nearby is a venue for track and field athletes and a perfectly equipped winter swimming pool.
Mountainous areas the visiting card of Almaty. You can begin your acquaintance with them on a ride by cable car to the city’s highest point, Kok-Tyobe (Blue Hill), 1130 m above sea level.

Residents and guests of the southern capital have at their disposal 5 stadiums, a hippodrome, and the high-altitude Medeo sport complex, featuring a unique ice skating rink located at 1700 m above sea level.

ranges and the city. It is especially beautiful at night when Almaty is illuminated by glimmering lights. The cableway soars over the old part of the city, buried in gardens called Compote by locals. This area is so called because of the fruit names of streets located here: Cherry, Pear, Grape, etc. While riding the cablecar up the hill you can watch the lifestyle of local people almost as in an ethnographic museum. The Kok-Tyube hillside is topped by a350 m TV tower. It’s built in a seismically active area.

the world’s top skaters. Medeo is a popular skating area for residents and guests of Almaty. Almaty Central Stadium accommodates 32,000 people. Nearby is a venue for track and field athletes and a perfectly equipped winter swimming pool.

Mountainous areas the visiting card of Almaty. You can begin your acquaintance with them on a ride by cable car to the city’s highest point, Kok-Tyobe (Blue Hill), 1130 m above sea level.

ranges and the city. It is especially beautiful at night when Almaty is illuminated by glimmering lights. The cableway soars over the old part of the city, buried in gardens called Compote by locals. This area is so called because of the fruit names of streets located here: Cherry, Pear, Grape, etc. While riding the cablecar up the hill you can watch the lifestyle of local people almost as in an ethnographic museum. The Kok-Tyube hillside is topped by a350 m TV tower. It’s built in a seismically active area. The new 2030 General Plan of Almaty was developed in 1998 and aims at forming ecologically safe, secure and socially comfortable living conditions. The main objective is to promote Almaty’s image as a garden-city. One of the components of the General Plan is to continue multi-stored and individual construction, reorganize industrial territories, improve transport infrastructure and launch Almaty Metro (Almaty Subway). At the same time, some officials and Almaty city dwellers actively opposed metropolitan construction in seismically active zone. Some scientists said that in case of strong earthquake, the city will immediately fall under ground. However, constructors state that metropolitan is constructed taking in consideration Almaty city seismic situation. In fact, metropolitan construction started in 1989, hardly any of the project initiators could suppose that construction time would have lasted for 20 years.  The total length of Almaty metropolitan is planned to be equal to 45 kilometers.

Zenkov, was built without the use of any nails in 1940 and is one of the nine most unique wooden buildings in the world. Its wall paintings and interior decoration boggle the imagination of the visitors with its beauty and magnificence. The remarkable fact is that the Cathedral outstood a very strong earthquake of 9 points by Richter scale in 1911.

Almaty’s biggest recreational area (admission 25T; 24hr), at the eastern end of Gogol, is still known as Gorky Park. It has lakes, funfair rides, an Aquapark (Jun-Sep), a zoo, and several cafés, and shashlyk stands.