Tours in Ulytau.

"To endure the story of his own life, everyone adds a few legends to it"

Marcel Juandot.

Sacred monuments of Ulytau.

Kulan Ana Mausoleum is located at an altitude of 319 meters above sea level, is located between Syrasu and Kara-Kengir rivers, in northern part of vast Bolganon cemetery, 2.2 kilometers from right bank of Kara-Kengir River, 10.9 kilometers to north and slightly east of confluence of Syrasu River and Kara-Kengir River, 43.6 kilometers to southeast of towny of Zhezkazgan, 60.5 kilometers to northwest of village of Akkense, in Ulytau district of region of same name.
Here, in the cemetery, 25 meters northwest of the Kulan Ana mausoleum, there is the Bolgan Ana mausoleum. The estimated age of the monument belongs to the period of the XIV - XV centuries. Popular legends associate him with the name of the Merkit Kulan-Khatun, the second wife of Genghis Khan and the mother of Kulkan, the only son of Genghis Khan not from Borte, who had practically the same rights as his first four sons.
Kulan-Khatun, according to legend, is the same woman who was allegedly involved in the murder of Khan Jochi. Historical sources, however, differ about the data of her life and the moment of death. According to one version, she died even before Khan Jochi, long before the Ulytau lands came under the control of the Mongols.
According to another version, she accompanied Genghis Khan on his Khorezm campaigns and died during one of them, after which she was buried under thick ice.
Geographic coordinates of Kulan Ana mausoleum: N47°27'59 E68°00'31

Authority:
Tourist guide "Ulytau". Avalon Travel Guides. Karaganda, 2016. V. Shuptar.
Alexander Petrov.

Photos by:
Alexander Petrov.