Traveling in the Ulytau mountains.

“An ancient burial site will always hold clues as to who the people were, and to who we are” 

Anthony T. Hincks.

Architectural sights of Ulytau.

The XIXth century Ayranbay Mausoleum (Beskumbez) ​​is located in the Ulytau district of the Karaganda region, 110 kilometers northeast of the city of Zhezkazgan and 35 kilometers south of the village of Algabas, on the right bank of the Sary-Kengir River.
The Ayranbay Mausoleum is a monument of history and architecture of republican significance (Post. Sov. Min. KazSSR No. 133 of 02.17.1949). The author, builder and history of creation are not known. In 1974 he was examined by the Central Kazakhstan expedition of the Ministry of Culture of the Kazakh SSR (MA Mamanbaev, MK Sembin, MS Nurkabaev).
In 1982, it was examined by the expedition of the Dzhezkazgan Museum of History and Local Lore of the Central Statistical Bureau for the Protection of Monuments of History and Culture of the Kazakh SSR. The necropolis consists of two main structures - the Ayranbay mausoleum and the portal-domed mazar and small destroyed saganatams made of mud bricks and stone.
The two main buildings of the necropolis are of great value in the study of the history of architecture of Kazakhstan of the XIX century. Five domes of the mausoleum with a cruciform plan. Built of burnt bricks lining the inner masonry.
The facades are decorated with “rhombuses” made up of light and dark burnt bricks. Dimensions 9.75 x 8.25 meters, height 6.25 meters. One of the best mausoleums of the five dome type in Central Kazakhstan.

Authority:
M.K. Sembin, “Report on the work of the Central Kazakhstan expedition of the Ministry of Culture of Kaz. SSR ", archive NIPM" Kazrestavratsii ". "Materials of the expedition of the Dzhezkazgan Museum of History and Local Lore and the Central Organ of the Society for the Protection of Monuments of 1982", archive of the Dzhezkazgan Museum of History and Local Lore.

Photos
Alexander Petrov.