Sports 

All sports facilities in the district by order of the district akim in the evening and at weekends are provided free of charge to residents of villages and youth for systematic sports. Including: in 30 gymnasiums of schools, in 3 gymnasiums of a sports school in the evening, on weekends and after school hours, rural youth can play sports for free. In all gyms, a schedule for the October-April months is drawn up and responsible persons are appointed. In the children’s and youth sports school, daily from 19.00-21.00 hours, trainers - responsible on a schedule, conduct classes with the population and youth.

For 2019, 483 sports events were held in the district. The work on conducting competitions among youth and adolescents in such sports as soccer, futsal, futsal, mini-football, basketball, arm wrestling, weight-lifting, ice hockey, table tennis, billiards, chess, checkers, kokpar, audi-spack, track and field athletics, freestyle wrestling, Cossack kures, skiing. In the region, work is underway to implement the tasks set by the President of the country to promote a healthy lifestyle. Much attention is paid to the education of youth and adolescents in the spirit of patriotism and love for the motherland.

As a result of work to promote a healthy lifestyle, holding sports events in the region, the number of people systematically involved in sports amounted to 7521 people, which is 31.7 percent.

At regional and republican competitions, the youth of the region achieved significant success. At republican-1, regional competitions -58 students took the first place, 26 students the second place, 30 students the third place. The national team consisted of 118 students.

In the past championship of East Kazakhstan region in the presidential all-around Oleg Lysev and Vlad Samauilov took 2 places. In the championship of East Kazakhstan skiing, which took place in the city of Ridder, Rayanova Takhmina took 2nd place, in the regional boxing tournament Artem Inshakov took 1st place, Iliyas Karimov took 2nd place, in the winter championship of East Kazakhstan region volleyball among youth 2002-2003, the youth sports school took 2nd place, 2005-2006 took 2nd place. In the championship of East Kazakhstan free-style wrestling, which took place in the city of Zaysan, two pupils of the Youth Sports School took 2nd place.

At the RK arm wrestling championship, which was held in the city of Taldykorgan, Kalkanova Moldir became the champion, and Nazerke Erlykova and Asylbek Bekov took 2nd place. These 3 athletes confirmed their achievements in the Asian Cup, which was held in Kyrgyzstan. Moldir Kalikanova became the champion among women at the championship of the Republic of Kazakhstan among adults on May 7-9 in Almaty and fulfilled the norm of the master of sports in arm wrestling of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In the tournament "Zhas Barys", which was held in the city of Ayagoz - How Kuandyk took 3rd place.

At the FKD Futsal Championship among amateur teams of the Kurchum region, took 1st place in the second league. In the Volleyball Championship of East Kazakhstan Volleyball among women's teams, our volleyball women's team took 2nd place.

Tourism 

In the Kurchum region, a number of conditions are created for the development of rural tourism. To date, to improve the welfare of the rural population, preserve natural, historical, cultural heritage, develop the tourism industry, create conditions for entrepreneurs working in this field, a number of necessary works are being carried out.

In 2019, 2908 people (residents) were serviced by tourism facilities, the volume of services provided amounted to 37 million 554.5 thousand tenge or an increase of 2.3%.