Things to do in Semey, KZ

National Museum of Abai is located in Semey. Make National Museum of Abai a centerpiece of your Semey vacation itinerary, and find what else is worth visiting using our Semey day trip planner. The Museum is dedicated to the life and the life of the famous all over Kazakhstan, Abai-thinker who helped ...

Along with displays about Abay’s life and work, the museum has many 19th-century artefacts, and sections on the Kazakh nomadic tradition and Abay’s literary successors, including Mukhtar Auezov (1897–1961), author of the epic novel Abay Zholy (The Path of Abay).

Semey is a city found in East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan. It is located 50.43 latitude and 80.27 longitude and it is situated at 211 meters above sea level

ASTANA – The offspring recently born to Shetland ponies and European fallow deer in the Children’s Biological Centre of Semey are healthy and thriving. The Bio Centre is a wonderful oasis of nature in the city which involves children and teenagers in environmental protection.

It was in Semey that Dostoevsky made friends with the extraordinary Shokan Ualikhanov (Chokan Valikhanov), a prince of the Kazakh Middle Horde, explorer, intellectual, and spy in the Russian army. A statue of both men stands outside the museum.

According to the results of the national business rating of Kazakhstan, the reserve-museum of Abai in Semey became the "Industry leader of 2013".

Semey (Kazakh: Semeı, Russian: Семей), until 2007 known as Semipalatinsk (Kazakh: Semıpalatinsk, Russian: Семипалатинск) and in 1917–1920 as Alash-kala (Kazakh: Алаш-қала, Alash-qala), is a city in Kazakhstan, in East Kazakhstan Region, and in the Kazakhstani part of Siberia, near the border with Russia, around 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) north of Almaty, and 700 kilometers (430 mi) southeast of the Russian city of Omsk, along the Irtysh River.

Not associated with the nuclear history of Semey, at least not directly, but also of interest to those dark tourists with a taste for the old communist cult of personality in the form of socialist realist statuary: you can find one of the best collections of such statues anywhere in Kazakhstan (IMHO even better than that at Aksu) hidden in a small park just beyond Hotel Semey, to the left off the northern end of Lenin Street.

Semey (Kazakh: Semeı, Russian: Семей), until 2007 known as Semipalatinsk (Kazakh: Semıpalatinsk, Russian: Семипалатинск) and in 1917–1920 as Alash-kala (Kazakh: Алаш-қала, Alash-qala), is a city in Kazakhstan, in East Kazakhstan Region, and in the Kazakhstani part of Siberia, near the border with Russia, around 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) north of Almaty, and 700 kilometers (430 mi) southeast of the Russian city of Omsk, along the Irtysh River.