The history of the creation of the museum-reserve «Bozok»

In 2018, a decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the establishment of the State Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve «Bozok» in the structure of the Ministry of Culture and Sports was issued. The road to this event took 20 years. The idea of preserving the archaeological site and creating a Museum-Reserve on its basis came from its first researcher K.A. Akishev. Bozok is a unique monument of historical and cultural heritage on the territory of Central Kazakhstan. The history of its discovery and exploration involved a chain of significant circumstances. It could not have been opened earlier, although it has existed for more than a thousand years. Bozok is a kind of message received at a special symbolic moment of the turn of the millennium, which coincided with remarkable events: independence, the transition to a new phase of state building, the establishment of the capital in a new place. All these significant circumstances were confirmed by the discovery of the deep historicity and significance of the Kazakh steppe as the center of the Eurasian continent. It turns out that historical events of a political and creative nature took place here, that there was an accumulation and development of new cultural and technological achievements that influenced the ethno-genesis of the Kazakhs, which formed the genetic code and mentality of the Kazakh ethnos. In ancient times, in the history of the steppe space, there were significant periods of awakening, invention and spread of innovations in the vast areas of the ecosystem of the Ancient East, Central Asia. The article deals with a brief history of the discovery and exploration of the mediaeval settlement of Bozok. The first results of archaeological research have shown the importance of this historical monument. Its origin dates back to the ancient Turkic era of the 7th – 8th century. The archaeological site of Bozok serves as a confirmation of the ethno-genetic memory of the ancient Turkic-speaking population in choosing a site for urban space and shaping it in the tradition of the steppe mentality

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