Ust-Kamenogorsk

Worth seeing in and around Ust-Kamenogorsk

4 places 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
   Vostok Stadium

   Vostok Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Vostok.

   2.6 km · stadium · Wikipedia
2. 02
   East Kazakhstan Technical University

   D. Serikbayev East Kazakhstan Technical University is located in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. Founded in 1958 as Ust-Kamenogorskij stroitelno-dorozhnyj institut, UKSDI, the university is named after the first rector Serikbayev Daulet Mirkasymovich, a public figure and social activist who ensured the status of a leading science and technology university.

   3.5 km · university in Oskemen, Kazakhstan · Wikipedia
3. 03
   East Kazakhstan State University

   The Sarsen Amanzholov East Kazakhstan University is a leading multidisciplinary higher educational institution in Oskemen, Kazakhstan.

   3.1 km · university in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Boris Alexandrov Sport Palace

   Boris Alexandrov Sports Palace is an ice hockey indoor arena in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. The sports palace was renamed after Soviet and Kazakhstani ice hockey player Boris Alexandrov in 2010.

   3 km · hockey arena in Kazakhstan · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

Стрелка (Strelka) Strelka is the arrow of land where the Irtysh and Ulba rivers meet. It is also the site of the Great Patriotic War Memorial. A nice place to stroll and have a "Limonad" on a warm evening, usually plenty of people hanging around.

1. 01
   Vostochno-Kazakhstanskiy "Museum of Art"

   Ulitsa Tokhtarova 56.

2. 02
   Museum of Local Lore

   Lots of natural history and stone sculptures/monuments.

3. 03
   Ethnography Museum

   Kirov St.

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Things to do

Naberezhna (Набережна) is the promenade along the Irtysch river leading up to Strelka. Have a beer, find a spot or stroll, and hang out by the water as the sun goes down. Ice hockey: Kazzinc-Torpedo plays in the Russian 2nd league. This is where NHL-players Nik Antropov and Evgeny Nabokov started their careers. Football: FC Altai were promoted in 2025 and now play soccer in Kazakh Premier League, the top tier.

1. 01
   Zhastar

   Prominent park with gardens and walkways among fairy tale sculptures.

2. 02
   Etno Park

   A semi-kitschy place with replicas of traditional homes and an enormous mosque, collections of former Soviet military equipment like tanks and planes, flowers galore and a zoo.

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Where to eat

Pizza Blues (Pizza Dostavka) (They have four locations in Ust-Kamenogorsk: Gorkiy Street 56 and 95, Abay Avenue 5 and Kazakhstan Street 64.). A chain of restaurants with good, reasonably priced pizza and beer. Great place to meet young people. Some hotels also have restaurants.

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Getting to Ust-Kamenogorsk

Airports

Oskemen (UKK), 10 km · Semei (PLX), 175 km

• Semey → Ust-Kamenogorsk

  175 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · $18–24
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• Pavlodar → Ust-Kamenogorsk

  469 km · quickest by air, 6h 24m · $160–240
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• Karaganda → Ust-Kamenogorsk

  681 km · quickest by air, 5h 20m · $210–310
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