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Taraz city – is the administrative centre of Zhambyl region. The population is – 352 500 people. The territory of the city is 120 square kilometers. Taraz is one of the most ancient cities on the land of our state; its age is over two thousand years.

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The rare and very interesting birds inhabit in the territory of the region. There is the snow leopard in the high mountains; the wild ram, goat and Tien Shan’s brown bear inhabit in the low mountains. There are Persian gazelles in the desert and the onagers, saigas in Betpakdala. It is possible to observe some of the rare, protected birds in the desert zone of Betpakdala: the black-bellied and white–bellied sandgrouse, pallas's sandgrouse, houbara bustard, the little bustard, demoiselle crane, sociable lapwing, the Eurasian stone-curlew. There is a big variety of the representatives of the predatory birds, there also the owl, marsh owl, little owl. It is interesting to see the blue-whistling thrush, the white-browed tit-warbler, the Asian Paradise-flycatcher, the southern nightingale and a lot of other birds.

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“Zhasulan and Co” was found in 1993 in Taraz. Nowadays it is the firm of many sectors, which occupies with the pharmaceutical activity and flower business. In 2009 “Zhasulan-Flora” the new firm was created, in order to improve the management and marketing of the produced production. It is consists of: -“Zimniy sad” the super modern hothouse in Taraz, its total area is 2500 km square, the house plants are cultivated in accordance with the Dutch technology there; -“Zhetybay” the agro complex in Bayzak district, its total area is 47 hectares. There are 21 winter and 35 summery greenhouses and the nursery–garden for the decorative shrubberies, which are adapted to the planting. The capacity of the agro complex is almost 10 million flowers and herbs, which are cultivated per the season.

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The ruins of Akyrtas are situated in the distance of 40 km to the east of the modern Taraz. There are the enormous boulders of the red sand, which jut out the ground and group in the separate lines, the experienced eyes of the scientists can link the premises, columns, towers into the contours. They astonished the devotees of the antiquity, who had seen the big amount of the wonderful views. The spacious territiory, on which the red stone blocks are scattered, is the evidence of the construction’s grand size. The imagination draws the castle, the walls of which rise high into the air.

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