Kazakhstan Economy

PEOPLE OF KAZAKHSTAN

The population of Kazakhstan is constituted with several ethnic groups mainly:

The Kazakhs, covering about 53% of the inhabitants, while

The Russians covering 30% of the residents.

Several other groups reside within the region of Kazakhstan like the Ukrainians, Uzbeks, Germans, Chechens, and Uyghurs - belonging to the Russian authority.

Among the minority cluster, the Russian Germans, Poles, Romanians, Ukrainians and Russian political opponents were expelled to the region of Kazakhstan during the reign of Stalin.


The chief religious beliefs allocated here are Sunni Islam, Russian Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism. Being a bilingual country: the Kazakh language, known as the state language is spoken widely. But, the Russian dialect is used for any kind of official purpose.

ARTS, CULTURE AND MUSIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

Art: Silk painting emerged within the region as the most attractive art form where painters depicted Kazakh family, their love legends, their yurt, their cultural life, Kazakh women and men along with other aspects relating to the region.

Culture: The Kazak natives dwell within a tent carved out with willow wood and felt which are popularly known as yurt. The local natives resort to animal husbandry and follow a nomadic customary method of living. The guests are treated with great honor and are served with delicacy made of freshly killed lamb.

Music: Kazaks has a formulated ethnicity that is based upon the nomadic rustic culture. Kazakhstan is known to possess musical hubs like the Kazakh State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazakh National Opera, Kazakh State Kurmangazy Orchestra of Folk Instruments, and Kazakh State Chamber Orchestra. Get a rustic musical culture, which shares common similarities with the Uzbek and Kyrgyz folk music where one may come across wandering lyric poet, bards, healers and spiritualist those who are called as akyn within the region. The akyn are known to carry musical instruments like qobuz or dombra along with them.

The other native musical instruments are kylkobyz, sherter, sybyzgy, saszyrnay, shankobyz along with kobizovaia, sibiz-govaia, and dombrovaia. These folk music are based on the prehistoric folklore and spiritual beliefs.

FLAG OF KAZAKHSTAN

The flag of Kazakhstan was officially accepted during the month of June 4, 1992. It is designed with a steppe eagle that lies underneath a golden sun emitting 32 rays from the central location, lying just behind a sky blue colored background. The hoist side of the flag is inscribed with a striking gold-ornamented pattern that defines the cultural inclination of the old khanate and the Kazakh community. The blue background denotes the Turkic peoples where the color blue carry a religious connotation relating to the sky deity named as Gök-Tanry. The sky carries a feeling of freedom with it. The golden eagle denotes the Genghis Khan Empire that makes the natives proud about their history and heritage.

ECONOMY OF KAZAKHSTAN

Kazakhstan has in store massive reserves of fossil fuels with country largely depending on the agricultural industry whereby the major contributions were made by livestock and grains.

Kazakhstan economic growth mainly relies on the industrial division where extraction and processing of natural resources takes place. The machine-building sector of Kazakhstan focuses mainly on the manufacturing of equipments, tractors, agricultural equipment, and defense related substance.

Kazakhstan witnessed a major growth during the year 2000-01 when the country's economy went through an improvisation stage mainly in the energy sector along with reforms made in the economic sector, with a boom in good harvests, and overseas investment.

The export within the country considerably rose up with the introduction of the Caspian Consortium pipeline, especially with the support of China that stretched along the region of western Kazakhstan's Tengiz oilfield to the Black Sea during the year 2001.

An industrial policy was designed to broadened the horizon of the economy along with it several policies were issued in order to diminish the effects of foreign investment and foreign workforce within the country.