Incredibly informative website that addresses key topics about becoming familiar with Kazakhstan: geography, flora and fauna, government, economy, culture, history, people, national features, travel, food.
Created by Celia Emmelhainz, this is a list of Kazakh words and their roots with definitions in English provided by the Krippes and Nuralieva Kazakh-English dictionaries.
CESSI (Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) created "an extremely useful PDF...of free links to a number of important Kazakh language textbooks and grammars.
"This guide is designed for Kazakh language training of Peace Corps workers in Kazakhstan, and reflects daily communication needs in that context. It consists of an introductory chapter and a series of 10 theme-based competency-based language lessons. The introduction contains background information on the language, its alphabet, the Kazakh people, Kazakh phonology and morphology, some basic differences between Kazakh and English, and notes on terms of address...Lesson Topics include: greetings and introductions; family; food; shopping; clothing; invitations and social functions; getting and giving directions; using postal services; weather; and discussing work."
"Abilkhan Kasteev was a Soviet and Kazakhstani painter. He was highly decorated, being awarded the title of National Artist of the Kazakh SSR, and was a Laureate of the Shoqan Walikhanov State Prize of the Kazakh SSR."
"One of the oldest and largest museums not only in Kazakhstan, but also the entire Central Asian region. The collections of the museum include about 300,000 objects. Currently, the museum has seven main stationary halls. Diverse collection provides a good picture of the paleontological past, of the ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary history and cultural tradition of Kazakhstan."
"You can learn about the foundation of the cosmodrome, its present activities and plans for the future. You can get to know a lot about those people who created the history of the famous Baikonur cosmodrome: outstanding scientists and designers, military leaders and organizers of military-industrial complex of the country and also about thousands of engineers, workers and testers of space-rocket equipment, military builders who stayed in the history background. The museum fund contains 15,000 exhibits. The Museum has at its disposal a collection of films about space and Baikonur cosmodrome, educational and popular science films and a library with books on space subject."
"The collection contains copies of the archival records related to the evacuation of civilians to Kazakhstan during WWII that includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. This collection also includes records related to the special assistance given to foreign political immigrants (mostly members of the Communist Parties of the Nazi occupied countries) who were evacuated to Kazakhstan by the Soviet authorities."
"The museum has seven exposition halls, including:
hall of archaeology, percussion, and wind instruments, hall of memorial musical instruments, halls of string instruments, and halls of the world musical instruments."
This website serves as a companion to the print edition and e-book version of "The Music of Central Asia", edited by Theodore Levin, Saida Daukeyeva, and Elmira Köchümkulova (Indiana University Press, 2016). 189 audio and video tracks.