1) Kazakhstan is a large, sparsely populated country with a diverse population of over 120 nationalities. It has a rich cultural heritage that includes important architectural and archaeological sites recognized by UNESCO. 2) Traditional Kazakh culture is demonstrated through clothing like koylek dresses, saukele gowns, and kupe fur coats, as well as dishes like beshbarmak, kuyrdak, shelpek, and manti made with horsemeat, lamb, and flatbread. 3) Kazakhstan's natural beauty and historic figures like Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly, and Genghis Khan are also an important part of the country's

1. IE Business School Express Yourself:
If all of the world´s cultural heritage was contained in a
time capsule, what would you include to demonstrate
the legacy of your country?
Rakhima Gazizova
01.02.16

2. Outline
• My Country: Kazakhstan
• World & Cultural Heritage
• Architecture: Yesterday and Today
• Our Nature
• Heroes of Kazakhstan
• Expo 2017: Future Energy

3. My Country: Kazakhstan
• KZ is the 9th largest country by size in the world
• It’s a huge place with a very small population:17 million people
• KZ translates as “Land of the Wanderers”
• The people who live in KZ represent more than 120 nationalities

4. My Country KZ: Constitution
• Proud to became a independent country:
 Highest law of Kazakhstan: The Constitution was
approved by referendum on 30 August 1995

5. My Country KZ: Proud to be independent…
Freedom, Equality & Concord
We, the people of Kazakhstan, united by a common historic fate, creating a state on the
indigenous Kazakh land, considering ourselves a peace-loving and civil society,
dedicated to the ideals of freedom, equality and concord (…)
accept this Constitution.

6. World & Cultural Heritage of KZ:
World Heritage List
 The Mausoleum of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi is an
unfinished mausoleum in the city of Turkestan, in southern
Kazakhstan from 1405
 Tamgaly is a petroglyph site in the Semirechye, KZ
 The petroglyphs are from the Bronze Age, b the Iron Age &
the Medieval
 Saryarka — Steppe and Lakes of Northern KZ is a part of
the Uplands
 The two reserves contain wetlands, which serve as
important stop-over points for migrating birds from Africa,
Europe, and South Asia

7. World & Cultural Heritage of KZ:
Koylek, Saukele & Kupe
1. Koylek: made by folding an integral piece of fabric in half and sewing the sides laterally
from the armpits to the bottom hem
2. Saukele: wide dressing gown with long sleeves while a wedding gown is often a saukele
made of expensive red fabric
3. Kupe: is warm women's clothing typically made of fox fur, and is rarely made from goat
skin

8. World & Cultural Heritage of KZ:
… and the men
Head: Aiyr Kalpak
Overcoat: Shapan
decorated high boots: Taptauryn

9. World & Cultural Heritage of KZ:
Our traditional Food
Did you know…?
KZ People have one big love:
• Beşbarmaq which is our national dish
No time capsule without it!
• Horsemeat is so essential to Kazakh cuisine that the Kazakh athletes
begged the International Olympic Committee to be able to bring it to the
2012 Games in London

10. World & Cultural Heritage of KZ:
Our traditional Food
1. Kuurdak is one of the main and oldest dishes in Central Asian Cuisine. It is is usually
made from mutton
2. Shelpek is a traditional Kazakh flatbread commonly consumed all over the country
3. The main ingredients are: flour, milk, sugar, butter, sour cream, baking soda, salt and
vegetable oil
4. Kazakh Manti is normally ground lamb (sometimes beef or horse meat), spiced with
black pepper, sometimes with the addition of chopped pumpkin or squash

11. Architecture: Yesterday
• In the past our homes looked like this…
oNothing is more cosy
than a kazakh Yurt!!!

12. Architecture: Today
• On the other side, I also don’t want to miss the architecture of our modern
cities Astana & Almaty…

13. Kazakhstan: Our Nature
• But what would be a time capsule of my country without
our stunning nature…

14. Kazakhstan: Our Heroes
• Maybe you don’t know it…
But he does not belong to them!

15. Kazakhstan: Our Heroes
• A time capsule without the literature of Abai Qunanbaiuli & the music
of Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly would be worthless
Abay was a Kazakh poet, composer and philosopher
He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis
of enlightened Islam
Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev was a Kazakh composer, instrumentalist, & folk artist
His famous Kazakh instrument was the dombra

16. Kazakhstan: Our Heroes
• One of our biggest heroes is the famous warlord Genghis Khan…
• Kazakh people love him so much that in the past thousands of Kazakhs are
competing to prove their descent
• However, every country has his heroes that is our:

17. From the past to the future:
Expo 2017
• Even it did not appeared today…
• We are very proud that we can host the world in 2017…
• I won’t misst this event in my time capsule

18. Thank you for attention!
• There would have been much more for a time capsule…
• But I hope you got now an impression about my country
& where I am originated!
Gracias por su atención
&
Hope to see you in Madrid!