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Population

Population
1959	1970	1979	1989	1991
30 046	↘ 29 846	↘ 28 536	↗ 31 428	↗ 32 200

1999	2004	2005	2006	2007
↘ 23 982	↘ 23 382	↗ 23 607	↗ 24 198	↗ 25 099

2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
↗ 26 180	↘ 26 062	↗ 26 500	↗ 27 086	↗ 27 895

The population was 26.2 thousand people in 2008, and 28.2 thousand in 2010.

Kazakhs - 13,723 people. (47.5%)
Russians - 12,964 people. (44.8%)
Tatars - 690 people. (2.4%)
Germans - 487 people. (1.7%)
Koreans - 369 people. (1.3%)
Ukrainians - 223 people. (0.8%)
others - 468 people. (1.5%)
Total - 28,924 people. (100.00%)

Geography

Located in the upper reaches of the Karatal River in the foothills of the Dzhungar Alatau, at the confluence of the Kora (Karoy, Karinka), Chazhi (Chizhi, Chizhinka) and Tekelinka rivers. The final station of the railway line from Koksu station on the Semey - Almaty line. The city is also home to the only electrified narrow-gauge railway in Kazakhstan.

The city of Tekeli was founded at the foot of the Dzungarian mountains in the late 1930s on the site of a large deposit of polymetals. During the Great Patriotic War, this deposit provided the country with lead for every eighth bullet.

The name of the city comes from the species of animals that once lived in abundance in the gorges of these rivers: teke - a mountain goat, elik - a small antelope. Hunting scenes of the Uysun tribes are depicted in rock paintings in the vicinity of the city.

Among the city's attractions is the street named after Dinmukhamed Akhmedovich Kunaev, about 35 km long.

The city was significantly damaged by the earthquake in June 2009.

In 1959, there was a severe flood in the city and many people died as a result.

The city is very polluted as it is surrounded on both sides by lead waste.

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Yurt in Tekeli

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Holy Trinity Church

Education

Tekeli will house one of three campuses of the University of Central Asia, founded in 2000 with the support of the governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as the Aga Khan IV. Currently, there is a School of Professional and Continuing Education in Tekeli. The part of the University located in Tekeli will prepare bachelors in the specialties “Business and Management” and “Engineering” and will open in 2019.

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Excerpt characterizing Tekeli

“Mais assez de bavardage comme cela. Je finis mon second feuillet, et maman me fait chercher pour aller diner chez les Apraksines. Lisez le livre mystique que je vous envoie et qui fait fureur chez nous. Quoiqu"il y ait des choses dans ce livre difficiles a atteindre avec la faible conception humaine, c"est un livre admirable dont la lecture calme et eleve l"ame. Adieu. Mes respects a monsieur votre pere et mes compliments a m elle Bourienne. "Je vous embrasse comme je vous aime. Julie."
“P.S. Donnez moi des nouvelles de votre frere et de sa charmante petite femme.”
[All of Moscow is talking about the war. One of my two brothers is already abroad, the other is with the guard, which is marching to the border. Our dear sovereign leaves St. Petersburg and, it is assumed, intends to expose his precious existence to the accidents of war. May God grant that the Corsican monster, which disturbs the tranquility of Europe, may be cast down by the angel whom the Almighty, in His goodness, has made sovereign over us. Not to mention my brothers, this war has deprived me of one of the relationships closest to my heart. I'm talking about young Nikolai Rostov; who, despite his enthusiasm, could not bear inaction and left the university to join the army. I confess to you, dear Marie, that, despite his extreme youth, his departure for the army was a great grief for me. In the young man I told you about last summer, there is so much nobility, true youth, which you see so rarely in our age among twenty-year-olds! He especially has so much candor and heart. He is so pure and full of poetry that my relationship with him, despite all its fleetingness, was one of the sweetest joys of my poor heart, which had already suffered so much. Someday I will tell you our farewell and everything that was said at parting. All this is still too fresh... Ah! dear friend, you are happy that you do not know these burning pleasures, these burning sorrows. You are happy because the latter are usually stronger than the former. I know very well that Count Nikolai is too young to become anything other than a friend to me. But this sweet friendship, this so poetic and so pure relationship was the need of my heart. But enough about that.
“The main news occupying all of Moscow is the death of old Count Bezukhy and his inheritance. Imagine, three princesses received some small amount, Prince Vasily received nothing, and Pierre is the heir to everything and, moreover, is recognized as the legitimate son and therefore Count Bezukhy and the owner of the largest fortune in Russia. They say that Prince Vasily played a very nasty role in this whole story, and that he left for St. Petersburg very embarrassed. I confess to you that I understand very poorly all these matters regarding spiritual wills; I only know that since the young man, whom we all knew under the name simply Pierre, became Count Bezukhy and the owner of one of the best fortunes in Russia, I am amused by observing the change in tone of the mothers who have brides’ daughters, and the young ladies themselves in attitude towards this gentleman, who (in parentheses it should be said) always seemed very insignificant to me. Since for two years now everyone has been amusing themselves with finding suitors for me, whom I mostly do not know, the marriage chronicle of Moscow makes me Countess Bezukhova. But you understand that I don’t want this at all. Speaking of marriages. Do you know that recently everyone’s aunt Anna Mikhailovna entrusted me, under the greatest secret, with the plan to arrange your marriage. This is nothing more or less than the son of Prince Vasily, Anatole, whom they want to settle down by marrying him to a rich and noble girl, and the parents’ choice fell on you. I don’t know how you look at this matter, but I considered it my duty to warn you. He is said to be very good and a big rake. That's all I could find out about him.
But he will talk. I’m finishing my second piece of paper, and my mother has sent for me to go to dinner with the Apraksins.
Read the mystical book I am sending you; it has been a huge success with us. Although there are things in it that are difficult for the weak human mind to understand, it is an excellent book; reading it calms and elevates the soul. Farewell. My respect to your father and my greetings to m lle Bourrienne. I hug you from the bottom of my heart. Julia.
PS. Let me know about your brother and his lovely wife.]
The princess thought, smiling thoughtfully (at which her face, illuminated by her radiant eyes, was completely transformed), and suddenly got up, walking heavily, and moved to the table. She took out the paper, and her hand quickly began to walk over it. This is what she wrote in response:
“Chere et excellente ami.” Votre lettre du 13 m"a cause une grande joie. Vous m"aimez donc toujours, ma poetique Julie.

The city of Tekeli is a small city located in the upper reaches of the Karatal River in the foothills of the Dzhungar Alatau, at the confluence of the Kora, Chazhi and Tekelinka rivers. The population is about 28 thousand people. It is located approximately 30 km from the city of Taldykorgan, 250 km from Almaty.

The city of Tekeli was founded at the foot of the Dzungarian mountains in the late 1930s on the site of a large deposit of polymetals; it acquired city status in 1952. The city is known for the fact that during the Great Patriotic War this deposit provided the country with lead for every eighth bullet. Among the city's attractions is a 28 km long street.

The name of the city comes from the species of animals that once lived in abundance in the gorges of these rivers: tek - a mountain goat, elik - a small antelope.

3. View of the city from the surrounding mountains.

The city is surrounded on all sides by a ring of mountains.

4. View of the Korin Gorge.

The city, as mentioned, has 4 rivers. Kora, Chazha, Tekelinka and Karatal, which flows into Lake Balkhash.

5. Kora River.

All these rivers are mountainous, very fast, the water is very cold even in summer. In winter, due to the fast flow and mild climate, they do not freeze.

6. The confluence of Kora, Chazhi and Tekelinka, then Karatal.

Despite the apparent shallowness of the local rivers, wading them is extremely dangerous due to the speed of the current and the abundance of stones.

7. There is a small hydroelectric dam on the river.

9. Everywhere there are large and small, extremely interesting pieces of rocks.

Houses higher than 5 floors are not found due to the seismic hazard of the region.

10.

The abundance of satellite dishes on houses immediately catches your eye when entering Kazakhstan.

As a trend of the commercial era, almost every house has a store (DUKEN in Kazakh). The assortment in these stores is almost the same, the prices are the same, there are no cash registers as a class. On what basis Tekelians choose this or that duken for shopping remains a mystery to me. Most likely on the principle of “whether I know the seller or the owner of the store or not.” :) The next house is simply a record holder for the number of duques. The entrepreneurs managed to cram as many as 4 dukens into the two-entrance house.

There are a LOT of shops in the city.

Since the city's population is small, almost everyone knows each other, rumors spread with cosmic speed. Everyone greets each other. This is probably typical for all small cities.

14. School No. 3, it is already more than 50 years old.

15. Interesting "Stalinist".

The favorite place for Tekelians to walk is the central square of the city.

A large number of roses and other flowers are traditionally planted on the square. Pine trees grow, which are not typical for these places. There are 2 huge chestnut trees and birch trees.

A dent is visible on the mountain, for its shape it is called a “bear’s paw”, or, for short, “bear”.

18. House of Culture.

In the city, as well as in Kazakhstan as a whole, there are many posters, slogans and other propaganda materials reminiscent of the USSR.

22. No one is going to demolish the Lenin monument.

23. And Lenin is not alone in the city. :)

Most of the city's streets were renamed after the collapse of the USSR. But the streets of Gagarin and Cosmonauts remained unchanged, Baikonur is still located in Kazakhstan, and Kazakhstanis are proud of their space achievements.

Also in Kazakhstan they honor the memory of the Great Patriotic War.

25. I don’t know what this WWII monument represents. When it was opened, back in the Soviet years, the closest building to it was a beer hall, so the people immediately dubbed the monument “2 fists near a tavern.” I also heard the version that these are carnations. The “eternal” flame is lit only on holidays.

26. Youth Sports School.

27. You can come here and drink the Kazakh national drink, kumys (Kazakh kymyz).

28. In the photo album of almost every Tekelian there is a photograph where he, at a young age, sits on this headless rooster. I have a photo of me when I was 2-3 years old with him, and even then he was already headless. Who and when abused this rooster is unknown. :)

Within the city limits there is an old and no longer working mine, an extremely picturesque place in the mountains. The road there is extremely bad, up and up.

The mountains there are already significantly higher, steeper, and covered with coniferous forest.

The deposit has been depleted and the mines have been abandoned.

33. Rusty water flows from the mines, since there is a lot of iron left there, but going there is very dangerous.

34. Descendants are happy to dismantle into bricks what was brought with such difficulty and built on these steep slopes by their ancestors.

35. The purpose of some passages in the mountains is difficult to guess. And there are enough of them, of different diameters and at different heights.

A narrow-gauge electrified railway was laid from the mine to the lead-zinc plant for the delivery of ore. There was NOTHING left of her. :(

36. Above the mine there is a complex of mudflow protection structures. These are several tall dams at some distance from each other. In the event of a mudflow, the space between the dams should be filled with mudflow mass, ideally to accommodate the entire mudflow, or to reduce its power.

Well, let's not talk about sad things! :)

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38. In Tekeli they value antiques and are willing to ride them. :)

The situation with the vehicle fleet is interesting. There are practically no right-handed cars, there are not enough Japanese, mainly the German auto industry. Audi, BMW, Opel, Mercedes of different years of manufacture. There are not many Japanese. There are many cars from the 80s and 90s. The Russian auto industry is very poorly represented. There are such rare wrecks that belong in a museum, and which, in general, it is unclear how they do not fall apart along the way. However, there are also a lot of good new expensive cars. Lots of Chinese motorcycles. One of the nice features on Kazakhstani roads is the maximum speed outside the city is 110 km/h. Fines for violations are much more serious than ours.

During the Soviet years, many outdoor swimming pools were built.

39. Main pool.

40. Children's pool "Eight". It hasn’t worked for a long time, but I spent a lot of time here as a child.

There is a whole complex of children's pools behind the House of Culture, but now for some reason they are no longer filled.

The climate is warm, winters are very mild, -15 is considered very cold, although it can reach -30. Summer is hot, southern latitudes, the sun is very hot. But the fact that the city is located in the mountains contributes to cool nights and allows you to take a break from the heat of the day. Mountains moderate the climate. For example, in neighboring Taldykorgan it is always hotter in summer and colder in winter than in Tekeli. Once upon a time, while still at school, I managed to swim on March 8th, and it wasn’t cold.

That’s why there are a lot of fruit trees in the city that don’t belong to anyone; anyone can take them. Only children pay attention to these trees, eating what grows in varying degrees of maturity, without suffering from stomach pain afterwards. :) It’s cool for peaches and apricots, mainly because frosts are possible in May (after all, there are mountains). There are especially many apple trees, pears, plums, apricots, cherries and cherries.

41. Uryuk.

42. Old apricot.

44. The road past the apricot trees is covered with apricots, which are crushed by cars and passing people, and no one needs them.

Apricot, contrary to popular belief, is not a real apricot at all. This is a relative of the apricot and is not inferior to it in taste. The differences are that apricots are much smaller than apricots and have a darker, bitter pit. Apricot also grows in Tekeli, but cannot boast of such gigantic harvests as apricots.

45. Prunes.

46. Red plum.

There are a lot of plums of different varieties growing, the situation is the same as with apricots - they fall to the ground, lie around, and choke. Cars arrive from Russia, park at their dachas and accept buckets of fruit. Price approximately 100 rubles. for a 10-liter bucket of plums. Considering that plums for transportation need to be removed by hand, climbing trees, since the fallen plum will not reach Russia, they donate it a little. Not so much to earn money, but out of pity that so much good is wasted. The situation is the same with apples and pears. They remove plums that are a little green so that they arrive properly before fruit-hungry Siberians, so the quality of the arriving product is very far behind the ideal.

48. Branches breaking under the weight of fruits are a common occurrence.

50. Pear “Forest Beauty”, still a month to ripeness.

51. Apple "Saltanat" (I shot it myself!). :)

With the varieties of apples here, even an experienced apple grower’s head will spin. The fact is that summer residents, wanting to get some varieties of apples (pears) suitable for themselves, cross varieties using the tinting method. That is, some branch of an apple tree of one variety is cut down, cuttings of an apple tree of another variety are inserted (colored) into the cuts in the bark, which take root, grow into branches, on which then apples of a mixture of these two varieties grow, without a name. Then a cutting of this mixture can be colored to a third tree, etc. :) I saw a tree on one half of which red round apples grew, and on the other half green oblong ones. :)

52. Different varieties of grapes grow...

53...walnut....

54...extremely tasty tender cherries that will not withstand the road for export and are consumed locally....

55...and exotic tomatoes. :)

56. This plant grows everywhere in abundance, and, believe me, there is some benefit from it. :)

The dacha plots are abundantly covered with fruit trees, through which it is quite problematic to see the neighboring plot.

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If fate brings you to Tekeli and you want to try fruits, do not rush to buy them at the market or pick them from numerous trees. You can go to your summer cottage and ask the summer residents to collect fruit under the trees. They won’t refuse you, moreover, they will even be glad that the harvest that was wasted in vain will be in demand by someone. Besides, the most delicious apples and pears are those that fell from the tree to the ground, and even lay there for a little while. Of course, this does not apply to cherries and cherries; they must be picked from the tree.

Thank you for your attention, come visit! ;)

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City profile

Tekeli- an industrial city. The city's enterprises produce marble flour, building bricks, malt, and extract and process marble, gabbro and shungite.

Year of foundation of the city: 1937
Square: 174 km²
Population: 29,960 people (2013)
Timezone: UTC+6
Telephone code: +7 (72835)
Postcode: 041700
Vehicle code: 05 (until 2012 - B)

Interesting Facts

The name of the city comes from the species of animals that once lived in abundance in the gorges of these rivers: tek - a mountain goat, elik - a small antelope. Hunting scenes of the Ussun tribes are depicted in rock paintings in the vicinity of the city. Among the city's attractions is a street more than 30 km long. The city was significantly damaged by the earthquake in June 2009.

At the end of the Great Patriotic War, a new region appeared on the map of Kazakhstan - Taldy-Kurgan, the center of which became the significant village of Taldy-Kurgan (formerly the village of Gavrilovka). But until the early 60s of the last century, Tekeli remained the largest settlement in the new region.

“Taldy-Kurgan is the only regional center of the Kazakh SSR, which is not the largest settlement and industrial center of its region. In terms of the number of residents, it is equal to the younger city of Tekeli, and in terms of the number of workers it is inferior to it and Ush-Tobe.”

This excerpt from a geographical description of Kazakhstan dates back to 1957. The scale of urbanization in the region is evidenced by the fact that in those years the record-breaking city had only 30,000 inhabitants.

Tekeli itself appeared before the Soviet regime, and its name speaks for itself: this remote gorge in the Dzungarian Alatau was ideal for the life of “teks” - cautious mountain goats. But everything here changed radically during the first five-year plans. Metamorphoses in the fate of Tekeli were caused by the discovery of a rich polymetallic deposit and the construction of a mining and processing plant on its basis. Construction began back in 1937.

But then no one thought that the Tekeli Lead-Zinc Plant in a few years would become an extremely important victory-forming facility, on which (along with other Kazakh enterprises in the industry) not only the successes of the Red Army fighting the Nazis, but also the fate of the entire USSR would directly depend . It is alleged that every eighth bullet fired at the Nazis was cast from Tekeli lead.

In planned Soviet times, a powerful city-forming enterprise like a local plant was the key to the success and dynamic development of cities. It is no coincidence that the city of miners (Tekeli acquired the status of a city only in 1952) was considered indicative in all areas. Here is an excerpt from the book “Attractions of Kazakhstan” published in 1959:

“Tekeli is a large cultural center of the Alma-Ata region. It has 10 secondary, seven-year and primary schools, a children’s music school, 3 evening schools for working youth, 6 libraries, 5 clubs with stationary film installations. There is a Miners’ Palace of Culture.”

Tekeli was a record-breaking city not only on a regional scale. Located at an altitude of 1000 meters above sea level, it was also the highest mountain city in Kazakhstan. But besides this, it was also considered the longest city not only in the republic, but, perhaps, in the USSR. The fact is that stretched along the river of the same name for almost 30 kilometers, Tekeli was the embodiment of a technological and urban chain. From Mount Aktobe to the Karatal River, from top to bottom there were: a mine, a mining village with a processing plant, a central village, a rest house "Gornyak" with a tuberculosis clinic and a large subsidiary agricultural enterprise.

The fact that all this was a single city is, of course, disingenuous. Between the individual components there were sections of mountains with virgin landscapes. However, the Tekelians themselves were still proud of their scale.

The collapse of the USSR coincided with the depletion of local polymetallic deposits. The city, which was built and lived off of these riches, by all indications was doomed to take its place on the list of “ghosts”. However, he didn’t take it. And the population has not even decreased. And why? Has the plant remained afloat? It is important. But that's not the main thing.

The main thing is that Tekeli initially had a powerful safety net, which other similar towns sticking out in the middle of the homeless steppe (the same Zhanatas) were deprived of. The same gorge in which mountain goats once felt so at ease, and where people settled so comfortably. In order to leave here, very compelling reasons were needed. Indeed, even in its current form, disfigured by workings, dumps and “tailings”, this place can still give a head start to many in its picturesqueness and vitality.

To be convinced of the truthfulness of this statement, it is enough to drive along the longest street of the “longest city.” It is no coincidence that it now bears the name of D. A. Kunaev and, of course, in terms of its length, lays claim to the book of records. The best time to visit Tekeli is in the spring, when everything is blooming and fragrant.

And it’s time to leave the ill-fated Kok-Zhailau alone. Because Tekeli is an ideal place for building an international ski resort of any level. And there will be more snow in winter in the Dzungarian Alatau compared to the Zailiysky Alatau! And one should not expect protests on such a scale as in Almaty.

In the foothills of the Dzhungar Alatau, above the city of Tekeli, the mine of the Tekeli Lead-Zinc Combine once operated.

Now all that remains of the mine are mine portals filled with concrete and destroyed buildings.

Remnants of an era.
Let's see what's left of the mine?

2. We enter Tekeli. A huge swimming pool is visible from the road.

3. The newest and brightest spots in the city are posters glorifying reality. The reality with these posters does not fight very well here, especially in the upper part of the city, at the cordons.

4. However, we are not yet entering the city itself, we are flying along the highway higher up. Although, what kind of route is this, this is Konaev Street. They say it is the longest in Kazakhstan. The private sector begins. The morals here are completely rustic. Self-walking pets.

5. We pass the second cordon. The sight is very sad. This grocery store was clearly out of business.

6. This is the same building when it was alive.

6a. And this is his twin brother, the grocery store Karatal at the first cordon. A long time ago.

(c) Photo from the group in OK - “Our favorite city is Tekeli!” Scanned and uploaded by Askar Mukhametkaliev. From the archive of Pavel Timofeevich Baranov, the first editor of the local newspaper "Gornyak". Published with permission.

7. Temporary bridge with barrier. Only for our own.

8. Residential buildings, once upon a time miners lived here. Someone lives now, in a literally falling apart building.

9. Here, the owners of one of the apartments even made renovations and replaced windows.

11. A tributary of the Tekelinka from the Cherkassy gorge (Cherkassy gorge), the river itself flows throughout the gorge. Here it flows straight out of the mountain.

12. Let's look into the past. In the 30s of the last century, people came to the gorge. By 1942, a lead-zinc plant was built here, as well as a workers’ village. The plant made a great contribution to the victory in the Great Patriotic War - every eighth bullet for the front was cast from Tekeli lead.

12s. This is the same place from the heyday of the mine. From the archives of Baranov P.T.

13. The construction of the plant and the new city was declared a “shock construction”; thousands of people from all over the USSR came here. However, they came here not only voluntarily - in 1944, Koreans, Germans and Chechens were deported here. After the war, even Japanese prisoners built the plant.

Since the plant, at that time, was one of the largest in the country, and was considered strategic, the city was supplied directly from Moscow. They say that getting a job assignment here was considered lucky. But by the beginning of the 90s, two factors hit the city hard. Firstly, lead ores have been depleted, according to the official version. Secondly, the USSR itself ordered a long life, and no one needed the dying plant. For some time it still stayed afloat, but then the mines were flooded with water (as some say, leaving a lot of equipment below), and in 1997 the plant also stopped.

UPD: Comment by Askar Mukhametkaliev:

By the end of the 90s, the price of lead and zinc fell sharply, the main processing enterprises were in the south and east of Kazakhstan, transportation was expensive, since railways, in my opinion, were already in private hands and in the period 1996-1999 the enterprise was on the verge bankruptcy, the government “forcibly” sold it to KAZZINK. And its leadership and main enterprises are located in the east of Kazakhstan, they also justified and made the decision to close the mines, although the resources were not completely exhausted. Soon, TSCC was reconfigured to process copper clinker from eastern Kazakhstan (there was simply no place to store it there anymore), after all the clinker was processed by 2009, they disbanded the enterprise and paid compensation to the company’s employees. And KAZZINK left Tekeli, now the plant belongs to the Mining Bureau.)

14. It looks like this is the same place many years ago. Photo caption: Tekeli mine. (author not identified).

15. And now it’s not difficult to get to the mine portals, generously scattered throughout the gorge. All of them are concreted, and in almost all of them the entrances were broken by looters. Handwritten inscriptions: POISON, GAS, radiation signs - do not scare anyone. People crawl underground in order to steal something metallic, preferably made of non-ferrous metal.

16. Excerpt from an interview with Vladimir Ignatievich Ganzyuk, full text - Central Asia:

“This is our second cordon,” says Vladimir Ignatievich Ganzyuk, a member of the Tekeli Veterans Council who has lived there all his life, showing a photograph yellowed with age. – Here are the houses, the boiler room, the children’s hospital, the clinic. The club had two foyers, an auditorium with 240 seats, a weightlifting section, a music club, a billiard room, and a library. My entire childhood passed there. A school for 1200 students, everything was there. And now there are only ruins and garbage, only the school with 64 students remains. Industrial facilities were built to last—by the hands of Japanese prisoners of war.
At the school on the second cordon, there were 42 people in each class, and classes from “A” to “E”. The school operated in three shifts: two during the day and one in the evening. There was a grocery store here. The meat department there was never empty. Every day, two tons of sausage arrived in city stores; it was produced by our sausage shop. The ton was transported to the station and hydroelectric power station, the ton remained in the city. Each of the 43 stores received sausage. Liver, lamb, Tallinn, amateur, Krakow, doctor's - there were so many varieties.
We lived wonderfully. We received apartments, imported furniture, carpets, refrigerators, televisions. One day Lomako himself arrived - the Minister of Non-ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR. I met with the miners and asked what they needed. They said nothing was needed, just cars. Literally immediately after this, 50 Zhiguli cars arrived in the city, then another 50, and so on. We had plenty of everything. In the eighties, however, things got worse. Then the Union collapsed and everything went to waste. At first the mines were still operational. And then, when Kazhegeldin arrived, after him everything was destroyed at once. The mines were immediately flooded, even the equipment was not dismantled - working equipment. The entrances to the adits were concreted. The miners were left without work.

17. People also live even higher.

18. Karaganda residents were noted here.

19. At this place there was a spring and steps to nowhere. Everything else is destroyed.

20. We approached the adits, as they are marked on the map. Several large buildings once stood here.

21. Concrete was not spared here, it was built to last!

22. The mines come out at different levels. It seems like a train even entered the lower shaft. If I'm not mistaken, this is the second horizon from the bottom.

23. So what about ore depletion? Word again, to SCS veteran Vladimir Ganzyuk (c):

– I remember that after Kazhegeldin’s arrival they said that the mines here were depleted, and supposedly that’s why they had to be closed.
- Not true. They were developed before the 11th horizon. And the 11th, 12th, 13th and further were just prepared for development. They broke through the adits, got everything ready, all that remained was to blow up, scrape and extract the ore further. The lifting machines were already at the ready, so they were cut up and taken away for metal, as were the substations, transformers - all the equipment. But everything was in working order, the plant produced 1 million 200 thousand tons of ore per year, with a very high lead content - 35%. Two bags are loaded into the back of the GAZ-53, and it can barely pull.
Closer to the 90s, volumes, however, decreased, and problems with transport appeared. And after Kazhegeldin, as the mines were closed, everything was stolen. 25 kilometers of power lines and railways disappeared in a short time. We had a wonderful knitting factory, women worked. As soon as the plant stopped working, the factory was also dispersed. In general, the city has come to its knees.

24. In the photo above are the remains of the mine's utility plant. I found a photo of him during his lifetime. Administrative and utility plant. (TSCK album 1974)

(c) Photo from the group in OK - “Our favorite city is Tekeli!” Scanned and uploaded by Askar Mukhametkaliev. Published with permission.

25. Administrative and utility plant. (TSCK album 1974). Disappeared along with SLAVA CPSU.

(c) Photo from the group in OK - “Our favorite city is Tekeli!” Scanned and uploaded by Askar Mukhametkaliev. Published with permission.

26. Radiation hazard sign and a broken hole in a concrete plug.

27. These same mines, many years ago. Photo caption: Album 1944-1949. Please note that there is a sentry with a PPSh at the mine. It's 1942, there's a war going on.

(c) Photo from the group in OK - “Our favorite city is Tekeli!” Scanned and uploaded by Askar Mukhametkaliev. Published with permission.

28. Capital adit.

(c) Photo from the group in OK - “Our favorite city is Tekeli!” Scanned and uploaded by Askar Mukhametkaliev. Published with permission.

29. The same utility plant, above are the remains of the boiler room.

30. This too will be sorted out, of course.

31. Now we are in this area, just above the public utility plant (second building from the bottom). If at least some traces remain of the first two buildings (so far), then everything above has been destroyed to the ground. The scale of vandalism is simply amazing! People destroy without a trace everything that was created by other people, here civilization absorbs itself, without any participation of nature! We shouldn’t be afraid of natural disasters; the worst disaster is man himself.

(c) Photo from the group in OK - “Our favorite city is Tekeli!” Scanned and uploaded by Askar Mukhametkaliev. Published with permission.

32. It’s hard to believe that 17 (!) horizons go down from here.

33. Perhaps there was some kind of mechanism here, for example a mine hoisting machine. Or installation of ventilation.

UPD This is a pile driver building.

34. Until recently, the building looked like this. Even concrete blocks were stolen using heavy equipment. Photo by Ivan Panov.

35. Here they broke it with tractors, but the concrete of the foundation resists to the last.

36. Monument to Strategy 2030 (at the time of the beginning of the end of the mine). Now we have a new goal - 2050; we can’t make it until 2030.

37. Meanwhile, it’s summer! The mountains are blooming.

38. The most beautiful places.

39. Maken left the fourth wall for dessert. He will definitely come for her.

40. Together with Katya.

41. Let's go higher. Once upon a time there was a concrete road here, which was covered with asphalt, which is peeling off in pieces, like shagreen leather.

42. The bridges here were made, it seems, by local craftsmen, and from narrow sleepers. You can drive through, but you need to be very careful.

43. This stone building reminds us that construction began in the distant 40s.

44. The gorge goes higher, but ends in a dead end, it is not passable.

45. Just 20 years ago, life here was in full swing. Now even the pipe of this boiler room has been stolen. The brutal mismanagement of the authorities, to say the least.

(c) Photo from the group in OK - “Our favorite city is Tekeli!” Scanned and uploaded by Askar Mukhametkaliev. Published with permission.

46. Tekeli mine. Concrete mixing unit for filling materials. (TSCK album 1974)

(c) Photo from the group in OK - “Our favorite city is Tekeli!” Scanned and uploaded by Askar Mukhametkaliev. Published with permission.

47. The mountains here are in dumps from mines; somewhere behind the nearest foothills there is a large quarry where ore was mined in an open pit. We haven't arrived yet.

48. And here, it seems, there was a camp recently.

49. The area is marked for tents, and paths are designated. It’s very strange, to be honest, to organize a children’s (?) camp near collapsing buildings and crowds of looters.

50. The mountain here, on the one hand, is well dug out.

51. Judging by old photographs, the entire gorge was completely built up. And there was probably something on this site. Now only the rotten tooth of the destroyed structure sticks out.

52. The apple harvest is good this year!

54. The gorge is not uniform in vegetation. The western slopes are covered with forest, while the eastern slopes are mostly covered with shrubs.

55. We arrived at the next object - the ruins of the building of the VGSO - Paramilitary Mountain Rescue Squad. The mountains remain, but there is no one to save.

56. There is a distinct smell of ozone in the air - a serious storm is approaching us.

57. Here water gushes out from under the ground. But this is not a spring; a pipe is laid to it from the upper reaches of the river.

61. Only the carefully planted trees of the park will remain.

62. The same building before - or during the war, seems to have served as a kindergarten.

Photo from the OK page of Vyacheslav Obukhov. Album TSCK 1939-1945

63. A narrow-gauge electrified railway was stretched from the plant to the mine. Now there is almost nothing left of it, everything has been dismantled. For some reason this bridge survived, but its days are numbered. Ferrous metal hunters will get to him too.

64. And this is what the piece of iron looked like during life. Electric locomotive IIKP2A drives the train along the stretch. 1950s.

Photo from the site http://infojd.ru/,

65. Electric locomotive IIKP2A at an unidentified station somewhere in the mine. 1950s. Most likely near the Kapitalnaya adit.

There's nothing here now.

Photo from the archives of the Tekeli plant, placed in the book
“Our narrow-gauge diesel locomotives and electric locomotives” (M., 2003).
Photo from the site http://infojd.ru/,

66. Along with the thunderstorm, a cold front came, and in a short time the temperature dropped from 30 to 11 degrees! We go down, making our way through a heavy downpour.

67. Railway workshop. Delivery of ore to the factory. (TSCK album 1974).

(c) Photo from the group in OK - “Our favorite city is Tekeli!” Scanned and uploaded by Askar Mukhametkaliev. Published with permission.

68. The house of the trackman and switchman at the former crossing in Kerimbek, opposite across the river is the Kerimbek gorge.

70. By the beginning of the nineties, Tekeli was considered one of the most equipped small towns in Kazakhstan. There were nine secondary schools, a music and art school, a vocational school, palaces of culture and sports, clubs and cinemas, an extensive retail network, a stadium, an outdoor swimming pool, a Children's Art Center, a city hospital, and specialized dispensaries. There were a number of large subsidiary farms and a greenhouse complex. (With)

Something, of course, is still working. There is a program for the development of single-industry towns, small production facilities are opening, and Tekeli beer is made here. The city is coming to life after years of devastation.

71. Even the plant, they say, has received a new lease of life. At its base, imported iron ore is now processed to produce cast iron.

What about the mine? And the mine was destroyed. Not mothballed, awaiting better times, but abandoned and barbarically plundered. Like thousands of similar objects throughout the territory of the former Union. In thirty years, there will be nothing in the gorge to remind of the powerful production that was built and operated for half a century. Man built, man destroyed.