Almaty is celebrating the Day of the City

In his speech Almaty’s governor Bauyrzhan Baibek noted that Almaty’s a cultural, scientific, educational, sports, financial and business center. All this makes the metropolis attractive to life, work and recreation place.

"Guided by the principle of" City for people ", we are striving to turn Almaty into one of the best megalopolises in the world, a developed tourist center. For this purpose, for the first time after a open public discussion, the Almaty Development Program until 2020 was launched. Consistently implementing the Program in life, we began to form comfortable public spaces. So, reconstruction was carried out with priority for pedestrians on the 8 most popular streets. Thank you to our citizens for your patience and understanding of temporary inconveniences," said B. Baibek.

The head of the city noted that the comfortable urban environment is also the quality, transparency and efficiency of the services provided to the citizens. So, the public reception "Open Almaty", which united all city services was launched. Appeals are considered immediately, without reference to instances, are accepted online. Almaty "Portal KSK" operates, for the dissemination of reliable information on the expenditures of state institutions, the "Open Budget" project is being implemented, etc.

In the course of the solemn ceremony of the title of "Honorary Citizen of Almaty", the state politician of Kazakhstan, diplomat, Doctor of Economics, President of the Volleyball Federation Abykaev Nurtay Abykayevich, former deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the KazSSR Zhanibek Zhangerei Zhanibekovich and participant in the Battle of Stalingrad, retired colonel, poet , chairman of the Almaty Council of the Society for the Conservation of Nature Girsh Leonid Yuzefovich.

Within the framework of the City Day in Almaty Arena at 17:00 the Eurasian music award EMA-2017 will take place, where the stars of domestic and foreign stage Kairat Nurtas, Kental, Keshyu, Diaz Ablaev, Luina, Ademi, Dinara Sultan, Ziruza, Alisher Karimov, Rakhat Lukum, Ringo, etc. The headliners of the festival will be Soso Pavliashvili and the band "Ninetty one".

The celebration of the City Day at 21:00 on the square "Astana", where the festive fireworks will be held.

It should be noted that international festivals Star of Asia and Kok-Tobe Opera, Open Air "Gakku Dausy", etc. were held in the city in the framework of the City Day celebration. The opening of the reconstructed "Astana" square, a new administrative building - the business center of the Nauryzbaysky district, the public reception of the city "Open Almaty", etc.