Language development

The main purpose of The "law on the state language" in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the State program for the development and functioning of languages in the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2011-2020 is to organize work on the introduction of mechanisms for proficiency and assessment of the level of proficiency in the state language.

Along with this, systematic monitoring is carried out on the quality of proper proficiency in the state language in the presence of other languages, in the need of the state language in all spheres of public life, as well as on the level of proficiency in the state language. Monthly monitoring of document flow in the state language is carried out in state institutions subordinate to the city akimat. The turnover of outgoing documents in the state language for the IV quarter of 2019 was 100%.

During the reporting period, 52 different events were held to implement the state language policy with the support and organization of the city Department of culture and language development.

Including: 1-Republican competition; 5-regional competition; 14-city competition; 18-round tables and 14 events of various directions (book exhibition, bibliographic review).

About onomastics

One of the most important tasks of the city Department of culture and language development is to organize the work of the onomastic Commission.

When improving the work in the field of onomastics, the work on naming administrative-territorial units, constituent parts of settlements is carried out in accordance with the decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated February 24, 2014 No. 138.

Of the 760 streets of the city, 430 streets are named after people, 263 streets are named after historical locations, and 107 names are called conditional.

In accordance with the order of Administration of the President of Kazakhstan, during the second half of 2018 to late 2019 in the regions temporarily suspended meetings of the working group on onomastics.

During this period, the meeting of the city working group on onomastics received 73 proposals from individuals and legal entities for the assignment of street names, 6 proposals for the name of objects, 21 proposals for the name of people from rural districts.

However, the administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan allowed to consider proposals for the assignment of names of administrative-territorial units and their constituent parts in the period from October 1 to November 15, 2019. From rural districts of the city, 21 proposals were considered, 9 proposals for naming the street after veterans of the great Patriotic war and Labor received positive conclusions.

Among the proposals submitted to the Regional Commission on onomastics in 2018, by the end of 2019, proposals were supported to rename 21 conventionally named st