Unique Venues

The concert hall at the Student's Palace is part of a university campus of Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi. The hall can host various caltural and entertainment events.

The Astana Arena stadium is primarily focused on football, but can be adapted for other sporting events, including wrestling, judo and Boxing. The Astana arena, with a capacity of 30,000 people, is designed as a large amphi theater with a two-level structure: a 16,000-seat lower terrace surrounding the playing field, and a 14,000-seat upper position overhanging the Western and Eastern sides. The stadium's sliding roof can be fully opened and closed in 20 minutes. One hundred Dion has high-quality artificial pitch and the infrastructure of all areas, adapted to carrying out of matches of world level sports and cultural events. A conference hall with an area of 137 square meters and a capacity of 70 people is provided for holding press conferences

Elegant Celebration Hall "Saukele", equipped with latest audio-video-lighting equipment, is located in the heart of Shymkent city. International conferences and presentations and gala dinners, innovative exhibitions and many other prestigious events are held in this hall. The hall is designed for 600 seats.

The hall is designed for 1400 people. Additionally, 54 seats have been prepared for VIPs. On the second floor there are separate VIP boxes and a small bar.

The area of the Youth Resource Center is around 2000 square meters. There is a large foyer on the first floor. The Center is located in the building of the former house of friendship of peoples. The hall of the Youth Resource Center hosts various cultural and entertainment events: concerts, stand-up shows, and performances.

The total area of the territory is 67 000 m2. The construction consists of three blocks: main arena for 3 000 viewers, training rink and the central block with the food court and administration offices. The hockey court can be transformed to the venue for volleyball, basketball, futsal, wrestling, boxing and etc. Mass skating are regularly carried out on weekends from October to April in the arena.

The multi-functional ice complex opened for Winter Universiade 2017 and managed to become the main sports venue of the city, also a major cultural and entertaining platform. Tournaments and the championships, games and forums, awards and concerts are held in the palace. The street space of a complex was chosen for car shows and festivals of food. Since opening more than 50 mass events were held.

The Sports Palace was built in 1967. The international and republican boxing, basketball, karate competitions were held in sports palace, also the ballet on ice, the international exhibitions and republican fairs were organized. The building of Sports palace is 4-storey construction with ice arena, lobby, group of rooms, the dining room, underground VIP parking, utility rooms, rooms for referees, security service, locker rooms, rooms for preparation of sports equipment, evacuation both stairs and elevators for VIP persons, administration and service spaces. Total area of the venue is 1,6216 hectares.

Legendary high-mountain Ice Skating Rink Medeu is located at the height of 1691,2 meters above sea level. It was built in 1972. The surface of ice occupies 10,5 t. sq.m that allows to hold speed skating, hockey and figure skating competitions. Soft climate in the gorge, optimum solar radiation level, low atmospheric pressure, a light breeze and clear glacial water provided wide popularity to a high-mountain ice skating rink. More than 120 world records were set here by the famous athletes. In recent years the skating rink was improved after the modernization. Medeu is famous as excellent concert venue. 13 years in a row the ice skating rink was the huge concert venue where the international festival of music «Voice of Asia» was held.

The theater was opened in 1926. It has a large auditorium with 1,000 seats and a 250 seat experimental theater.