Ancient monuments of history of Western Kazakhstan

Monuments of Kazakhstan

Museum «Otrar» in village Shaulder

In settlement Shaulder which Arystan-Baba is near to site of ancient settlement Otrar and the mausoleum, there is a museum «Otrar» in which the ceramic utensils is presented, candlesticks, subjects of a life, house utensils, clothes, instruments of work. Very interesting diopama «Otrar siege». 
The museum stores archeological finds in village Shaulder from site of ancient settlement Otrar and tells about a life of city in IX - XVIII c.c. 
In October, 2001 in village Shaulder of area Otrar of the South-Kazakhstan area there was the international scientifically-practical conference devoted 1130 - years from the date of a birth of the great scientific Middle Ages Abu Nasr Mohammed Al-Farabi (870 - 950). 

The Kazakhstan scientific and known scientists have taken part in conference Farabist from Iran, Turkey, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and other countries. 
Abu Nasr Ibn Mohammed Al-Farabi - the philosopher, the scientific-encyclopaedist, main representative east Aristotelian: a nickname «The Second teacher» - i.e. after Aristotel which Farabi made comments. 
Live in Bagdad, Aleppo, Damascus. 

The basic compositions: «Gemma knowledges», «The Treatise about sights of inhabitants of virtuous city», the treatise about classification of sciences, «The Greater book about music». 
On a way to village Shaulder are: Saks a barrow (V a century up to B. C. - I a century B.C.) in village Temirlanovka (it is based in the end of XIV century) where there is a regional museum of name Khadjimukana Munaitpasova; Bugun a water basin; a monument of the end of XIX century - Kyzyl-Kopir (The Red bridge) in settlement Ekpindi.

Source of information:
«Monuments of the Central Asia». The author of M. Khahsimov. Publishing house, Saga, 2001 Samarkand.
«Masterpieces of the Central Asia», Tashkent, Publishing house Sanat, 2004. www.farsah.kz

Tractor of times of Soviet Union


In halls of museum Otrar of a
museum


Exhibits of a museum made of a
decorative pumpkin


Furniture of a bedroom of rich people


Musical instruments in halls of a
museum


Ancient copper boiler in a museum