Kyzylorda
Kyzylorda is a city in south-central Kazakhstan, capital of Kyzylorda Region and former capital of the Kazakh ASSR from 1925 to 1927.

Kyzylorda is a city in south-central Kazakhstan, capital of Kyzylorda Region and former capital of the Kazakh ASSR from 1925 to 1927.
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Worth seeing in and around Kyzylorda
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Gany Muratbayev Stadium
Gani Muratbayev Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Kaisar.
2.9 km · multi-use stadium · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Central City Park
- 02War Memorial and Eternal Flame
A war memorial with an eternal flame and a large artillery piece, just north of the central park.
- 03Kyzylorda Regional Museum
- 04Aitbai Mosque
An historic mosque dating from the late 19th century.
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Things to do
Walk through the central park and the streets around the railway station. Visit the Syr Darya riverfront. Use Kyzylorda as a base for trips toward the Aral Sea, Baikonur and historical sites in the Kyzylorda Region.
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Where to eat
Restaurants, cafés and small food shops are concentrated in the central area. The railway station area also has places to buy basic food and drinks.
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Getting to Kyzylorda
- Airports
- Korkyt Ata (KZO), 17 km · Baikonur Krayniy (BXY), 200 km · Hazrat Sultan (HSA), 297 km
- Baikonur → Kyzylorda192 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · $20–28
- Turkıstan → Kyzylorda280 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · $23–32
- Zhezkazgan → Kyzylorda361 km · quickest by air, 6h 8m · $150–230
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kyzylorda
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kyzylorda. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inLong-distance buses and shared taxis serve destinations in the region.
- Get inA second local marshrutka station is near Bokeykhan Street.
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