The good History Museum has a natural history section with stuffed regional wildlife, including a snow leopard and a giant maral deer, and human history exhibits that reveal the huge number of ancient burial mounds in the region. Maps and documents trace Ust-Kamenogorsk's growth as a city and there's a large cluster of balbals (stone pagan deities) outside.
History Museum
Kazakhstan
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This branch of the ethnography museum is devoted to the many different ethnic groups in the region, with traditional embroidery, birch-bark craft and more.
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In the northern part of Park Zhastar, you can check out a number of historic log cabins, furnished and decorated in period style: early twentieth century…
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The Ethnography Museum is in two buildings facing opposite corners of Park Zhastar. This branch exhibits the traditional culture of the Kazakhs of east…
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This poignant memorial is inscribed with a poem, dedicated to the mothers of soldiers who never returned from Afghanistan.
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A pedestrian/cyclist promenade runs to the Strelka (Arrow), the point of land where the Irtysh and Ulba meet, marked by a large Heroes of the Soviet Union…