Few elements of Kazak culture

While Baikonur street names widely remind the Russian heroes of the space conquest, 2 streets only (TBC) refer to Kakak figures:

• Аба́й Кунанба́ев, or Abai Kunanbaiev Avenue (one of the three largest avenues of Baikonur city with Gagarin and Korolev Avenues). A commemorative statue in front of a carved wall celebrates the "father" of the Kazakh literature (2nd half of the XIXth century).

• Zhankozha Batyr Avenue, along the Peace Park, reminds a warrior of the XIXth century from the North East of the Aral sea region who became a national Kazakh figure.
  

• There is no reference in Baikonur of a legendary Turkic artist of the 9th century who lived close to the Syr Daria river and known as Коркут Korkut . He was a kind of universal artist: composing songs, improvising singer (Акы́н, like our troubadours) writing poetry, inventor of the Kobyz (Кобы́з, may be the ancestor of our modern violin?), and promoter of Arts in general ... Therefore, his fame spread far beyond the borders of Kazakhstan to be present in almost all countries of central Asia. Korkyt-Ata is a Museum in the desert, 45 minutes drive from Baikonur city, which has been dedicated to the "epic artist" widely recnicognised by all turkic (oguz) tribes.
  

The most interesting exhibition of Kazak items and culture in Baikonur can be found in a dedicated room of the "City cultural Palace",
The beautiful carpets are not produced in the Baikonur area but more towards Alma Ata

Credits: Richard

...as well as the the traditional kazakh music instruments:

In the window above are displayed:

• 2 Домбра or dombras (guitar like, 2 strings, frets on the Kazakh but not on the Uzbekh one)
• 2 Jew's harps
• 1 castanets like
  
• 1 modern Kobyz with a contemporary bow (Kazakh violin, likely played like a cello, i.e holding the instrument between the legs?)
• 2 дауылпаз or Dauylpaz (drums)
• 1 Cыбызгы or Sybyszy (flute like instrument)
• 1 Syldyrmak (above the bottom drum; from the idiophone family; the sound is produced by shaking)
  
• 1 Zyther like instrument at the bottom (a Kazakh version of the chinese Guzheng?)
  

Ready now or a representation of Mozart's "Die Entführung aus dem Serail " performed on Kazakh epoch instruments at the Baikonur Saturn "KinoKontsertnyi Zal" ? :-)

Far from joking, this is may not a crazy idea as long as in November 2009, a South African troop performed in Paris (Théâtre du Châtelet) the Mozart's Magic flute with their traditional instruments... this was warmly welcome by the critics.