Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Europa. Visit. Borovoe Kazakhstan



Designer: Danijar Mukhamedjanov
Paper: chalky
Printing process: offset
Perforation: comb 13 1/2 : 13 3/4
Miniature Sheet composition: 8 (2 x 5) stamps
Printing run: 150.000 stamps or 15.000 Miniature Sheets.
Michel catalogue number: 744

Natural Oasis of Kazakhstan
When the God created the world, – as a legend has it, – one people was bestowed large woods, green fields and wide rivers, another people got beautiful mountains and blue lakes. But the Kazakh people got only steppes. It hurt the Kazakh; feelings and they began to ask the creator to give them a particle of the wonderful nature.
And the God scratched from the bottom of his bag and threw in the middle of lifeless steppe the remnants of the picturesque mounting cliffs and lakes with crystal-clear bluish water, distributed with his generous hand emerald meadows covered with flowers, springs with icy-cold water and merrily murmuring brooks. He covered the mountains with a colorful carpet of different trees and bushes abounded the forests with animals and birds, lakes with fish and meadows with insects and butterflies, which cannot be found in the steppes one hundred miles around. Thus Borovoye came to light.
In the north of Kazakhstan, between Astana and Kokchetav cities there is a wonderful district, a real oasis – Borovoye. Geographically this nook is called as Kokchetav highs and the local guides gave it a name of Kazakhstani Switzerland.
The highs of Borovoye are very low: 500-600 m. at the marks of the cuts in the waters, in the lakes are 300-400 m. and the Kokchetau Cliff riches 947 m. The highest point of Kokchetau mountain (Blue Mountain). To the south is situated Burabai Mountain (690 m.) a fine panoramic point. Burabai is a camel. Still to the south there are Shychinskiye deeps, the largest of them is called Zheke-Batur – a lonesome fighter (826 m.)
One can not be help mentioning about the lakes of Borovoye. There are many. Lakes Shychie, Borovoye, Big and Small Chebachie, Koturkul glitter on the green atlas of the forest.
Small lakes Svetloye, Karasye, Gornoye, Lebedinoye can be seen from Kokchetau Cliff. The visiting card of Borovoye is the Blue Bay on the same named lake. Right from the waters of the bay Mount Zhumbaktas (Mystery, Sphinx) soars.
Every name here has its own legend. For example Sphinx is interesting when one looks at him from different points, for then one can see the face of young lady with waving hair, then that of a woman and in the end that of an old woman.

Borovoye is more beautiful than a fairy tale. The harmony of the mountains and the woods and lakes creates not only unique beauty of the landscape, but also a special medical climate.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

20th Anniversary of the First Stamp of Kazakhstan


Designer: G. Komlev
Paper: chalky
Printing process: offset
Perforation: comb 12 : 12 1/4
Size of a stamp: 30 x 42 mm.
Sheet composition: 36 (6 x 6) stamps.
Printing run: 162.000
Michel catalogue number: 743

50 (T) on 0.50 (R). multicoloured. Gold surchange on stamp No 7. "Golden Warrior" (from 5th-century b.c. Issyk tomb).

National Natural Park "Katynkaragay"




Designer: Danijar Mukhamedjanov
Paper: chalky
Printing process: offset
Perforation: comb 13 1/2 : 13 3/4
Size of a stamp: 37 x 26 mm.
Size of the Miniature Sheet: 109 x 128 mm.
Miniature Sheet composition: 8 (2 x 4) stamps
Printing run: 30.000 stamps or 3.750 Miniature Sheets.
Michel catalogue number: 742

110 (T). multicoloured. National natural park "Katynkaragay".

National park Katynkaragay - the largest in Kazakhstan specially protected naturalarea of 643,477 hectares of area. The reserve is rich in species diversity is concentrated flora and fauna, preserved species included in the Red Book of Kazakhstan. The park grows over 1,000 species of vascular plants, 30 of them are listed as endangered. Forests - the main asset of the park, they occupy 34% of thearea, and consist mainly of coniferous species.





Birth Centenary of Dinmukhamed Konayev



Designer: D. Mukhamedjanov
Paper: chalky
Printing process: offset
Perforation: comb 14 1/4 : 14
Size of a stamp: 28 x 40 mm.
Size of the Miniature Sheet: 166 x 118 mm.
Miniature Sheet composition: 10 (5 x 2) stamps
Printing run: 50.000 stamps or 5.000 Miniature Sheets.
Michel catalogue number: 741

100 (T). multicoloured. Portrait of scientist and public figure Dinmukhamed Konaev.


Dinmukhamed (Dimash) Akhmetuly Konayev born 12 January 1912 [O.S. 31 December 1911] in Verny, now Almaty, died 22 August 1993, was a Kazakh Soviet communist politician.


Konayev graduated in 1936 from the Moscow Institute of Non-ferrous Metals and Gold and worked at the Pribalkhashstroi (Balkhash Copper-smelting) combine as a machinist, shop foreman, and chief engineer of a mine. In 1939 he served as deputy chief engineer at the Altaipolimetall combine and then as director of the Ridder mine administration. Vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR from April 1942 to April 1952, Kunaev was president of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR from April 1952 to April 1955, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR from April 1955 to January 1960, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan from January 1960 to December 1962, and chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR from December 1962. He was reelected first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in December 1964.
Konayev was elected a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU at the Twentieth through Twenty-fourth Congresses of the CPSU, a candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU in April 1966, and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU in April 1971. He was a deputy to the third through ninth convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and has been a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR since 1962.
Kunaev combines government and party work with scientific activity. His works are devoted to the theory and practice of open-pit exploitation of deposits. He investigated and introduced efficient methods of cutting ore at mines in Kazakhstan. Kunaev has been awarded three Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and medals.