Tours in Astana.

“Some [arts] - to meet the necessary needs, others - to spend time; we always consider the inventors of the latter to be wiser than the inventors of the former, since their knowledge was not aimed at obtaining profit”

Aristotle.

Trip to Astana from Samarkand.

"Artist" is a sculpture installed on the central square of the city of Astana in 2005. She is part of a series of sculptures "Citizens", which appeared in the city with the assistance of Nursultan Nazarbayev - the president of Kazakhstan.
The statue made of bronze is a figure of a young girl in a baseball cap and jeans, who enthusiastically draws something on an easel. For young people, the artist’s bronze canvas serves as a kind of Aladdin’s lamp - they write their desires on it and claim that they are fulfilled.
City artists consider sculpture a symbol of their creative profession, and local residents and guests of Astana are happy to take pictures with an unusual monument.

Authority:
http://reactor.inform.kz/samye-interesnye-pamyatniki-astany-a3656

Photos
Alexander Petrov.