Information
- Location
- Atyrau Region, Inder District
- Period
- 1898 – 1995
- Category
- Historical and cultural monuments of republican significance
- Type
- Mausoleum
- Kind
- Buildings of monumental art
Sources
- Album of historical and cultural objects and places of general pilgrimage of Kazakhstan. - Astana: KazSRIC, 2018. - 496 pages.
Description
The famous steppe poet and batyr Makhambet Utemisov (1803-1846) is one of the most respected and revered folk heroes in Kazakhstan. Makhambet Utemisuly is an organizer, ideologist and an active participant in the anti–colonial, national liberation uprising of the Kazakh people. Together with his colleague and friend Isatay Taimanov, he fought for the freedom of his native land and the rights of the steppe people to choose their own path until the end of his life. The current mausoleum of Makhambet Utemisov was erected in 1995 in honor of his 190th anniversary. It is known that before that, there was a modest octagonal mazar with a tombstone over the grave of the hero, built in 1959 by the public of the Guryev region (author Novikov is an amateur sculptor from Aktobe).
In the period from the 60-70s, the real appearance of the batyr was recreated from the remains. In the 80s, the burial place of Makhambet Utemisov was scrupulously examined by the Ural expedition of the Minister of Culture of the Kazakh SSR.
Amateur architect Kopbol Demesin has created an interesting project by combining classical oriental forms of ritual buildings and unique architectural traditions of Mangystau. A twelve-sided majestic structure with a height of 12.2 m, the building is crowned with a massive but elegant helmet-shaped dome and decorated with overhead bas-reliefs. The building itself is concrete, but the outside and inside are lined with snow-white shell rock. The entrance to the mausoleum is marked by a classical arch decorated with carved ornaments.