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City in Kyzylorda Region, Kazakhstan

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
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The place

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

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Gany 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Central City Park
  2. 02
    War Memorial and Eternal Flame

    A war memorial with an eternal flame and a large artillery piece, just north of the central park.

  3. 03
    Kyzylorda Regional Museum
  4. 04
    Aitbai Mosque

    An historic mosque dating from the late 19th century.

From Wikivoyage: Kyzylorda, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

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.

From Wikivoyage: Kyzylorda, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

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.

From Wikivoyage: Kyzylorda, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Kyzylorda

Airports
Korkyt Ata (KZO), 17 km · Baikonur Krayniy (BXY), 200 km · Hazrat Sultan (HSA), 297 km
  • Baikonur → Kyzylorda
    192 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · $20–28
  • Turkıstan → Kyzylorda
    280 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · $23–32
  • Zhezkazgan → Kyzylorda
    361 km · quickest by air, 6h 8m · $150–230
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inLong-distance buses and shared taxis serve destinations in the region.
  • Get inA second local marshrutka station is near Bokeykhan Street.

From Wikivoyage: Kyzylorda, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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