Today, the draft Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On the special status of the city of Turkestan" has been adopted in the first reading by the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The bill was developed in accordance with the instruction of the Head of State on giving the city a special status as a spiritual and historical center. The basis for the development of an important document was the recognition of the city of Turkestan by the Organization of Turkic States as the spiritual capital of the Turkic world and the need to preserve the historical appearance of the city and the historical and cultural heritage sites located on it. We discussed this issue on our territory. Residents of Turkestan also enthusiastically supported this initiative of the Head of State.
The draft law was presented by the Vice Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Minister of Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Vice Prime Minister, the Minister of National Economy. Republic of Kazakhstan Nurlan Baybazarov. At the same time, Temir Kyrykbayev, a deputy of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a member of the Committee on Economic Reform and Regional Development, made an additional report. 15 deputies sent their questions and expressed their opinions. Deputy Akim of the Turkestan region Beysenbai Tazhibayev answered questions related to the socio-economic development of the city of Turkestan.
When developing this bill, the experience of preserving historical monuments of Great Britain, Italy, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and other countries was studied. . The law consists of 4 chapters and 15 articles, establishes the legal basis for determining the special status of the city of Turkestan as the spiritual, cultural and historical center of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Reimbursement of part of the cost of craftsmen from the budget; It is planned to limit construction around the mausoleum of Khoja Akhmet Yasawi in order to exclude the appearance of extraneous structural elements and preserve its uniqueness. In particular, at a distance of 100 meters adjacent to the border, it is not allowed to build buildings with a height of more than 7 meters, as well as incompatible with historical monuments in scale, color and building materials. the protected area of the mausoleum. At the same time, the city administration may decide to acquire and grant temporary land use rights to private developers for the construction of public social facilities. The Turkestan city administration and the city maslikhat will be provided with 34 additional competencies.
It should be noted that the population of the city of Turkestan has increased by 31.5% over the past three years and reached 236,333 people as of November 1, 2024. Thanks to the center of the region, the total regional product increased 4.5 times last year and reached $370.8 billion. It has reached KZT. 413.7 billion for 2024. It is assumed that it will be tenge. In the city of Turkestan, the volume of revenues to the state budget increased 2.8 times last year and reached 66.2 billion. For 10 months of the current year – 62.3 billion tenge. received tenge. The city's budget has increased 3-fold since it became the center of the region, reaching $141.3 billion. It reached KZT (41.9 billion tenge in 2018). The amount of capital investments in the city over the past three years has amounted to 915.7 billion dollars. amounted to tenge. Of these, private investments amount to 458.1 billion rubles. Tenge. 390 billion this year. It is planned to attract tenge.
Over the past three years, 1.2 million tenge. square meters of housing were put into operation, including 200 apartment buildings (10,020 apartments) with a total area of 807.3 thousand square meters. The number of active small and medium-sized businesses has doubled over the past three years and reached 22,000. This year, Turkestan was awarded the official status of "Turkestan – the tourist capital of the Turkic world", and a number of tourist and cultural events were held. The number of day visitors and tourists to Turkestan has increased by 165% over the past three years and reached 1015.2 thousand people in 2023. Also, the number of foreign one-day visitors and tourists has increased 60 times in three years to 12.2 thousand people. In January-October 2024, the number of one-day visitors and tourists to Turkestan amounted to 953.9 thousand people, which increased by 39.2% compared to the corresponding period last year. Also, the number of foreign one-day visitors and tourists reached 22.3 thousand people, which is 2 times more than in the first 10 months of last year.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/ontustik/press/news/details/905217