Astana translated into Russian, oddly enough trite, namely the "capital". Just, but with taste. The city was founded in 1830 as a Cossack outpost. The founder of Astana is nobody, and Colonel Fedor Kuzmich Shubin himself is the second who took the most active part in the Borodino battle. In the entire history of existence, the city has been renamed many times, but he did not become less outstanding from this. In Astana, many interesting places and attractions that are of great value for local residents and cause genuine interest among tourists. In order for you to have a clearer idea of local interests, I will try to describe the most remarkable attractions of the city of Astana.
Baiterek . This is not just one of the many attractions of the city, this is a symbol of Astana. The monument was opened in 2002 and it became a kind of symbol on the way to new accomplishments and a new stage in the life of each of the citizens. The initiative in the development of the monument was shown by the President of Kazakhstan. Over the creation of the project, worked, the famous and very famous architect Norman Foster. The pure height of the structure is ninety-seven meters, and if we take into account the ball that matches the structure, then in this case the height of the monument will be equal to one hundred and five meters. The lower level of construction, almost five meters lowered under the ground and is maximally involved in the cafe and aquariums, there is also a small gallery with the same name. Right from here, you can climb the ball on the elevator, that is, the highest point of the structure in which there are a panoramic hall with a stunning view of Astana and an excellent bar for those who are not afraid of heights (I, for example, I am afraid of her). Around the monument, beautiful park areas are broken, which are actively used to carry out a variety of festive events held in the city. So, for example, in 2010, the Berlin exhibition "Junaytid Buddy Bears" was organized here and successfully carried out, on which one hundred and twenty-five adultery works were demonstrated, which created the best masters from a variety of corners of our planet.
Khan Shatyr . The building is built in the form of a tent and is nothing more than a shopping and entertainment complex. Han Shatyr was opened in 2010 and since then it enjoys great popularity not only in the city itself, but throughout the world. The architecture of the building is unique in its kind, since it is not just a box usual for all of us, this is a transparent tent, and huge. The total area of the entertainment complex is one hundred and twenty-seven thousand square meters. In Khan Shatyr, there is everything and even more. Do not believe? See yourself. There are supermarkets, cinemas, family park, sports halls, office and office space, entertainment and shopping complexes, a parking lot on seven hundred places, but the most important thing is a water park with an artificial beach and several pools. On the beach resort, which is located in this entertainment complex, a tropical microclimate with exotic plants and a constant temperature of thirty-five degrees of heat is specially created. The beaches of the resort covers the sand brought from the Maldives, and for the maximum comfort of vacationers, it is constantly heated to a realistic temperature. Want to be among the winter to be in the Maldives, albeit artificial? Then Khan Shatyr is waiting for you!
Astana's oceanarium . Continuing the resort and entertainment topics, let's visit the Oceanarium, which is also listed in the world-famous book of Guinness Records as the only Oceanarium all over the world located at a distance of three thousand kilometers from the nearest ocean. The volume of the water area of the oceanarium is three million liters of water, to prepare which it is necessary to use one hundred and twenty tons of sea salt. In the oceanarium, they found their permanent residence and comfortable shelter more than two thousand marine inhabitants, who are representatives of more than a hundred species of sea fauna from all over the planet.
Open-air Museum "Mini Astana" . This historical - the ethnographic park was opened in 2001 and he is nothing but the most real open-air museum. The peculiarity of the park is that it completely recreates the whole country, but the biggest attention is still paid to two cities such as Almaty and Astana. Wonderful miniature with all the details, and all Kazakhstan in this park can be destroyed in just one hour. At the moment, the exposition of this unique museum is presented in the form of two hundred mockups, but it is constantly expanding with the emergence of new buildings in the country.
Fountain "Circus" . The name of the fountain, fully corresponds to its location. It is located on the square, right in front of the city circus building. Circus itself, who loves adults and children, has a kind of flying saucer. The building of the circus, relatively young, since it was openly fourteenth of December two thousand of the fifth year. Fountain, is an element of a circus building and therefore he appeared with him at the same time. The main decoration of the fountain, there is a clown that rides the ball on a single bike. If we consider the fountain as a whole, then in the center of it is a six-meter clown sculpture, which the capital of sculptors and architects from the Karaganda region presented the capital. A musical fountain is splashing around the sculpture and ten two-dimensional figures were installed in a circle. Each of these ten figures, displays different circus genres and is not surprising, why the clown was put in the center, because mostly circuses are visited to raise the mood and look at the main humorists - clowns.
Locals assure that this fountain is only freezing, a good mood begins to appear, because the circus love not only children. I do not know how you have, and everything is lifted in me and the throat rolls when I get into the circus and the loud music begins to sound the beginning of the presentation. So, probably also at the locals of Astana, this fountain is associated with a fabulous circus presentation.