DOI: https://doi.org/10.54944/kzbsd891zj28

UDC: 57.075

Nazymbetova G.Sh. Tleuberdina P.A.

RMK "Gylym Ordasy" RK MES, Shevchenko street, 28, Almaty, 050010, Kazakhstan,

E-mail: g.nazymbetova@mail.ru

Abstract:

2021 is a jubilee year for the Museum of Nature of the RSE “Gylym Ordasy” of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, April 15 marks the 60th anniversary of its foundation. Since the creation of the zoology sector from 1932 to 1958, scientists of the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR have collected and studied a variety of scientific material about the fauna of Kazakhstan. These collections of the remains of ancient prehistoric animals, collected by paleontologists and geologists in the Turgai, Zaisan depressions and in Central Kazakhstan in 1948-1957, gave the idea for the creation of the museum. The first president of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, academician K.I.Satpayev, timely supported this initiative. Since 1959, the museum began to receive its first visitors and gradually gained wide popularity far beyond the borders of the republic. The official opening of the museum, in accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR dated April 29, 1961, No. 44, was timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Kazakh SSR. The main goal of the museum is to popularize the fauna of Kazakhstan from the simplest to highly organized creatures, from the most ancient geological eras to the present day. After a long break (2006 - 2010) associated with the renovation of the building of the Academy of Sciences and the dismantling of all expositions, in 2010 the Museum of Nature returned to its former place as part of the museum complex of the RSE “Gylym Ordasy” of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The exposition has been restored, updated and replenished with new unique exhibits.

Key words: Gylym Ordasy, Museum of Nature, Turgai, Zaisan depressions, the fauna of Kazakhstan.

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Introduction:

Each of the museums of Almaty has a history of creation, formation and development. This year is the sixtieth anniversary of the creation of the nature museum of the republican state enterprise "Ғylyym ordasy" - fundamental institution of cultural and educational activity for the general public.

The basis of the exhibition was the scientific saving fund of the Zoological Institute, part of which does not exist anywhere else in the world.