05.08.2016 The exhibition "Almaty through the centuries", dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the Almaty city.
On 5th August, 2016 at 21:00 Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan jointly with the Akimat of Almaty opens the exhibition "Almaty through the centuries", dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the Almaty city.
In 2015 by UNESCO International Organization it was decided to include in the anniversaries of 2016 celebrating of the 1000th anniversary of the Almaty city.
In the history of Kazakhstan Almaty and Almaty region (Zhetysu in the broad sense of the word) has a special place. Talking about the age and Almaty, defining it in a thousand years, archaeologists emphasize not so much time human habitation of Almaty region in the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age, as well as the time of the settlement formation, corresponding to the concept of the city, characterized by administrative centers, centers of crafts and trade.
The purpose of the exhibition is to show the history of Almaty from antiquity to the present, as one of the oldest and biggest cities in the country having a historical, cultural and financial value. The exhibition presents items from the Bronze Age - Early Iron Age - Middle Ages - Verny (19thcentury) and the Soviet (20th century) periods, a small part of the exhibition presents the modern Kazakhstan.
The Bronze Age part represented by numerous monuments of the Bronze Age housed in the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Artifacts in the Zhetysu region, where historically located Almaty: burial mounds, settlements and petroglyphs are found. The period of the Bronze Age are the earliest artifacts from the treasures as "Kamensky treasure", "Turksib treasure", which date from the XIV-XII centuries BC, and late - X-VIII centuries BC, as well as artifacts from the Terenkara settlement dated IX-VIII centuries BC (located on the northern outskirts of the Almaty), from the Maibulak burial X-VIII centuries BC and accidental finds from the territory of Almaty.
The Early Iron Age by unique finds of the Early Saka era - Kargaly treasure, gold products of Zhalauly treasure and reconstruction of Besshatyr kurgan and the tomb (VIII century BC), formed on the basis of the materials of CSM RK are represented.
Complex "Archeological monuments of the Middle Ages VI-XIV centuries" is reconstruction made on the basis of the archaeological collections of the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan demonstrating the recreated interior of the dwelling on the basis of materials of the medieval settlement Shengeldy; forge shop, made on the basis of the discovered in 1978, remnants of the blacksmith shop, as well as the urban water supply system of the identified residues of irrigation systems, as well as fragments of pottery vessels, millstones, metal objects, etc.
The Verny period of the city (1854-1921) by the construction of the city, planting of greenery, development of production and trade is characterized which presented by documentary photographs from the collections of the CSM RK.
The Soviet period of development of the Alma-Ata covers the period from 1921, when the city was renamed to Alma-Ata to 1990 inclusively.
The modern period of the city starts from the 1991 after the country achieved its independence. In 1997, Alma-Ata was renamed to Almaty. This period in the history by photographs of the modern city of Almaty as a financial, economic and cultural life center which has a modern infrastructure of the city is represented.
In general, the exhibition "Almaty through the centuries", based on the rich collections of the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the history and culture of the country from ancient times to the present day represents all historically significant economic, political and ethno-cultural processes with the formation and development of Almaty.
Venue: Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Samal-1, 44.
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