Ethnic Park in Ust-Kamenogorsk How Kazakhs lived in the former Soviet Union?

On the edge of Ust-Kamenogorsk's National Park, meet the largest Kazakh region. Kazakh folk architecture is best represented in the "center of the most Russian region of the country", although this is natural in its own way.

The brick house is a replica of a rich Kazakh residence, I'm not sure. City dwellers or steppe whites. In the yard there are a bunch of sleds and carts, these are not Central Asian carts, but Russian ones.

The whimsicality of the interior is impressive, like a carpet pattern, where elements of the Russian city and Turkic steppe are intertwined. Let's say toshala - a summer kitchen, made in the form of a small yurt with a fireplace and ceiling windows:

The separate rooms, alas, are not contracted, but there is an as-uy (winter kitchen), a guest room (konak-uy), a bedroom (demalys bolmesi), an office (zhumys bolmesi), an office (zhumys bolmesi) and a ladies' room (ayel bolmesi) ). This could be a winter kitchen:

The trunks and carpets are obviously authentic, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were brought from the Mongolian Kazakhs, who preserved their nomadic life on the other side of the border:

The city furniture, the clocks and watches, the Dutch stoves - and the felt on the floor! rugs and pillows near the dastarkhan:

The traditional (i.e. from pre-Russian times) fixed dwellings of the Kazakhs are basically the same yurts: the stone toshala and the wooden dukkha.The interior view of the toshala can be seen in a couple of photos high up - and on the larger estates it can be used as a summer kitchen.

In modern Kazakh, the word "duken" means "store". But similarly, the Russian word "booth" means "stall", and the dwellings of some Siberian peoples were called "booths". What is a dukedom, a booth is nothing "residential cabinet":

But tas-uy ("stone house"), the information station called Erzhest Kazakh peculiarities. It is arranged in almost the same way as the Uighur manor - a covered courtyard and places from housing to barn. Only he looks almost like a bunker - from the raids of Junggar and gusts of 50 degrees of frost.

For some reason, the interior of tas-uya is not equipped, so it looks abandoned:

But korzhyn-uy is a wooden house. It is determined not by the material (in the south, near oases, they are built of adobe), but by the layout - a foyer and two rooms on either side: turgyn-ui for the host and konak-ui for the guests, and occasionally a tunek - a storeroom. Korzhyn is the same as khurdzhum, through a saddlebag, so the name literally means "two-room house with a lintel". Here, even from the outside, there is a small dukedom in the yard, a bit like an Altai village:

Korzhyn-uy room. I saw the same carpet on the Kazakhs in Mongolia, where we spent the night with the shepherds, not in yurts, but in wooden huts.

But there are no pristine, traditional felt yurts to be found here or in Zhastar - apparently it is believed that everyone in Kazakhstan already knows what it looks like. A huge yurt on the same square is a conference hall, and the Central Asian Avon, which, on closer inspection, is also wooden, turns out to be just a stage for a summer theater.