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Jun 15, 2025

　　The central bazaar is now somewhat diminished after the conversion of its outlying sprawl into parks and the removal of many traders to markets on the city's outskirts, but it still bustles and is a reminder of Shymkent’s long trading history.

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Central or Upper Bazaar

　　The central bazaar is now somewhat diminished after the conversion of its outlying sprawl into parks and the removal of many traders to markets on the city's outskirts, but it still bustles and is a reminder of Shymkent’s long trading history. ...

Regional Museum of Southern Kazakhstan

　　In its shiny new quarters on the northern outskirts of the city, this regional museum has well-presented, trilingual displays on local geology, Iron Age burial mounds (check out the human bones buried in a large clay pot) and archaeological finds from famous sites such as Otrar (silver jewellery) and Sayran...

Museum of Victims of Political Repression

　　This small museum documents Soviet oppression in Kazakhstan, from the dekulakisation (Soviet campaign of political repression from 1929 to 1932) and Stalinist repressions of the 1930s to the victims of Zheltoksan in Almaty in 1986. There are some heartbreaking personal effects of ALZhIR inmates in the small room adjoining the...

Independence Monument

　　This monument consists of a tall, red granite column topped with the figure of Mother Earth. ...

　　Of several new markets around the city fringes, Bazar Samal, next to Samal bus station, is the biggest and most interesting, with a particularly colourful array of rugs and textiles, as well as food and millions of items of clothing. ...

　　In Abay Park, two tall concrete pillars lean on each other above an eternal flame, and the alley is lined with plaques bearing the names of the more than 140,000 people from the south Kazakhstan region who lost their lives during WWII. A small, simple memorial consisting of an army...

Tauelsizdik sayabagy

　　Tauelsizdik sayabagy, accessed by footbridge from the tall, Mother Earth–topped Independence Monument, was inaugurated in 2011 for the 20th anniversary of Kazakhstan's independence. It focuses on Ramizder alany (Symbols Sq) which contains assorted national and ethnic-Kazakh symbols designed to inspire feelings of national unity, dominated by the tall Altyn Shanyrak...

　　The tall Altyn Shanyrak monument in the middle of Independence Park – a sort of tall, metallic funnel – represents the central roof opening of a yurt. ...

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