Articles by Miras Abykov

ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s national youth and student team finished in the top 20 at the July 6 through July 17 international Universiade competition in Kazan, Russia. The Universiade is an international multisport event for university students put on by the International University Sports Federation. More than 11,700 athletes from 160 countries participated in this year’s…

ASTANA – The Kazakhstan National Weightlifting Team won three gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the June 20 Asian Championship held in Astana. “The Asian continent dominates in the world, and the championship of Asia can be described as a very good competition,” said national team Head Coach Alexey Ni.“If you’ve taken part…

ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s first national sports channel KazSport will begin broadcasting sporting events and news on July 1. Minister of Culture and Information Mukhtar Kul-Mukhammed reported that the channel is completely ready for launch and will be broadcast by cable and satellite operators. It will be broadcast through cable operators Otau-TV, Alma-TV, Digital-TV and others,…

ASTANA – The designs of Aizhan Bokayeva and her brand Ayoko Bo were chosen on May 30 as the official uniforms for Kazakhstan athletes at the Sochi Olympics. Following the results of international voting, which began on May 28, Bokayeva’s designs received the maximum number of votes at 952. That was only two more votes…

ASTANA – The captain of the Astana Cycling Team, Italian Vincenzo Nibali won the cycle race Giro d’Italia on May 26. Nibali took the pink jersey after the eighth stage and never left it until the finish of the race. In the general classification, Italian beat Colombian Rigoberto Uran (Sky Team) by four minutes 43…

ASTANA – Nine-year-old Astana chess player Bibisara Assaubayeva recently won her fourth World Chess Championship in her category at the game’s world championships held in Greece May 6 to 15. Assaubayeva was one of 52 participants from Kazakhstan, but the only one to win her category, gaining 8.5 points out of nine. Since 2011, she…

ASTANA, May 21 – Astana Cycling Team Captain and Italian rider Vincenzo Nibali on May 18 finished in seventh place and 54 seconds behind the leader before the last day of rest in the Giro d’Italia. The winner of that stage of the super-cycle, multi-day race Giro d’Italia was Italian Giovanni Viskonti from the Movistar…

ASTANA – On May 10-11, through a remarkable combination of stamina, strength, prowess, and tactical cleverness by the coaches, the Astana Arlans boxing team beat the Ukraine Otamans 6-5 in the final match of the third season of the World Series of Boxing in Astana. At the end of ten bouts, held in Astana’s Sary-Arka…

ASTANA – Off Road Kazakhstan, a rally team consisting of Denis Berezovsky and Alexey Nikizhev, won the Аbu Dhabi Desert Сhallenge 2013 in the T2 class. The race took place from April 4 – 11 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and represented the second stage of the FIA World Cup (International Car Racing Federation)…

ASTANA – Andrey Gundarev is known as the first citizen of Kazakhstan to ascend the highest volcano in the world called Ojos del Salado (6,893m) as part of the Kazakh-Russian expedition. Thus, he is well on his way to achieving his goal of scaling the “seven highest volcanoes on the seven continents.” Recently, he became…

On March 30, Kazakhstan’s middleweight World Boxing champion Gennady Golovkin knocked out Japan’s Nobuhiro Ishida to retain his crown. Golovkin won the fight, which took place in Monaco, in the third round. It was his seventh successful defense of the World Boxing Association (WBA) title. Golovkin, 30, dominated the fight from the starting bell.Ishidф, 37,…

ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Denis Ten won the silver medal at the figure skating World Cup held in London, Canada from March 11-17. On his Facebook account, Ten thanked his fans for their support. “Thank you so much for your support. I am so proud to attain a new achievement for the figure skating history of…

ASTANA – The first championship tournament of the Kazakh traditional wrestling called Kazakh kures took place under hot South African skies from Feb. 26 to March 3. The host country plus Zimbabwe, Botswana, Swaziland, Gabon and Nigeria all competed in the tournament. In total, 30 athletes in four weight categories fought for medals. South African…

ASTANA – Ministers, government officials and deputies of the Mazhilis of Parliament of Kazakhstan, as well as guests from the United States, South Korea, China and Malaysia gathered Feb. 22 at the Lev Gumilyov Eurasian National University for the international scientific conference “Human Capital in Kazakhstan: Status and Growth Perspectives.” The conference was dedicated to…

ASTANA – At a town hall meeting at the end of February, Mayor of Astana Imangali Tasmagambetov reported on the progress of work that is planned to be conducted in the city prior to the international specialized exhibition EXPO 2017. “Astana was chosen as a venue for EXPO 2017. This is a big achievement for…

Kazakhstan’s champion skier Alexey Poltoranin won the silver medal in the 15 km (9 mile) race in the 13th stage of the World Cup which was held on March 9-10 in Lahti, Finland. Poltoranin had an almost perfect start into second place. Later, he fell back to sixth place but fought his way back to…

Kazakh boxers Birzhan Zhakypov and Merey Akshalov both won gold medals in the prestigious Chemistry Cup which was held on March 6-9 in the Sports Centre in Halle, Germany. Zhakypov fought in the light flyweight division (up to 49 kilograms, 107.8 pounds) and defeated LV Bin from China on points by a score of 18-12.…

ASTANA – Seven teams from across Kazakhstan took part in the World Special Olympics Winter Games, held from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5, in the South Korean city of Pyeongchang. Kazakhstan’s national team has participated in the Special Olympics12 times and has won550 medals. This year, Kazakhstan was represented by 45 athletes from all five…

ASTANA – Winter in Astana has its charms: fresh cold air, sun and deep blue skies, all of which call residents and visitors outdoors despite the cold. Now the capital is adding ice skating to its list of winter charms. New ice rinks and entertainment venues are being constructed all over the city. Astana doesn’t…

ASTANA – On Feb. 19-20, Kazakhstan will join nine of the world’s top national wrestling teams in the Iranian capital Tehran to determine who is king of the mat. The Kazakhstan team’s head coach, Tanat Sagyndykov, is taking the following promising wrestlers to Tehran: Zhanserik Sarsenbi and Nursultan Kalmyrzayev (up to 55 kg), Almat Kebispayev…

On February 3, Kazakhstan’s national bandy team won bronze medal in the Bandy World Championship which took place in Sweden and Norway over the previous week. In the rematch of last year’s bronze medal game, Kazakhstan yet again faced Finland on February 3, beating its opponents 6-3. It became the fourth bronze medal for Kazakhstan…

ASTANA – On February 1, the Astana Arlans boxing team continued their run of unbeaten tournaments and KO-ed the American Knockouts. In the first fight, Kazakhstan’s Ismail Akhunov beat American Braulio Avila Juarez, who failed to match his punching and lost all five rounds. In the lightweight division, 25-year-old Samat Bashenov defeated Juaquin Chavez who…

Photographer, artist and designer Veronica Preobrazhenskaya became world famous by creating fantastic collages. Within a short time, the 20-year-old girl from Kazakhstan entered the elite circle of the best photo-illustrators in the world and became the country’s blogger of the year. Preobrazhenskaya is an exponent of “dark art.” It is a style defined as being…

ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s national bandy team won its first victory in the World Cup on January 29. The team defeated Norway by a score of 10-1, winning its first victory in Group A of the World Cup. Vyacheslav Bronnikov, Rauan Issaliyev and Sergey Pochkunov were the stars of the game. The victory allowed Kazakhstan to…

ASTANA – Kazakhstan places great importance on the development of youth policy with a number of state programmes launched in order to support the young over the past few years. These programmes include “With the Diploma to The Village”, “Youth Practice” and “Zhasyl El” (Kazakh for “green country”). Today, in the Karaganda region in the…