Welcome to The city of Karaganda!!!

The city of Karaganda is an industrial center, an important railway and air routes, the city of high science and culture, a lively point of many tourist routes. The city was founded on February 10, 1934. In Karaganda coal mining, machine building, metalworking and food industries are enterprised. In the city there is a large number of enterprises of transport and communications. It is believed that the city got its name from the common in these places bush Karagan (yellow acacia). Even in the XIX century there was nothing. A legend says that in 1833 a shepherd boy Appak Baizhanov found coal.

 

Cultural life of the city is very interesting and diverse. In the town of connoisseurs of art visitors are waiting for the concert hall "Shalkyma", where recitals of classical music are the composers, conductors and musicians.

All residents and visitors welcome to Kazakh Drama Theatre which was named after S.Seyfullin, Russian Drama Theatre which was named after K.Stanislavskii and Academic Theater of Musical Comedy.

 

Within the city there are about 50 monuments of history and culture: Culture Palace of the miners, Sports Palace named after N.Abdirov, hotel "Chaika", the circus, monuments for Bukhar zhyrau, G.Mustafin, A.Baizhanov "Miner's Glory", military glory monument "Eternal Flame", architectural memorial ensemble in honor of the war-Karaganda, who died in Afghanistan, and others.