Sayran Bus Station
Sayran bus terminal (, Sayran avtobeketı, Russian: автовокзал Сайран, tr. avtovokzal Sayran), also "New Bus Station" or "Central Bus Station", is a major long distance bus station in Almaty on the North West corner of the Sayran Reservoir. It is the opposite side of the lake from Sayran metro station on the South East corner of the lake. History In 1978, the Minister of Road Transport of the Kazakh SSR, Anuar Zhakupov, instructed the Institute "KazNIPIAT" to develop a project of a new bus station in the city of Almaty. According to the feasibility study the city needed a very large bus station for 25 thousand passengers per day. The construction of the station was promoted by the fact that there were no electric trains in Almaty, and the entire out-of-town passenger traffic was carried by buses. The then existing Sayakhat bus station was no longer able to cope with the flow of passengers. A group of designers with V.V. Nerovnya, V.D. Tyagovsky, O.E. Burgumbaev, and A.A. Bem developed pre-project materials (PPM). The ministry liked the layout and drawings of the future bus station, but the question arose with the necessary financing of construction, the estimated cost of which was 6 million rubles. At that time, the republic was responsible for construction projects worth up to 3 million rubles, and the construction of more expensive facilities required funding from the USSR State Planning Committee. The Minister of Motor Transport informed Kunayev Dinmuhamed, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, about his intention to build the bus terminal and asked for assistance in including the construction in the title list of the USSR Gosplan. Kunayev promised to help and instructed the chief architect of the city to find a convenient site. The State Architecture Committee proposed the territory of two adjacent operating bus depots No. 6 and No. 7 located at the corner of Komsomolskaya Street and Mate Zalka Street, next to the artificial Sairan Lake. The architects and designers were given a large territory, where due to the natural slope of the relief they managed to organize two-level boarding of the buses. The new bus station was also intended to become the central object of the urban center, along with nearby buildings of "Soyuzdruk" and the district administration. The project of the new Almaty bus station successfully passed the state expertise of the Gosstroy of the USSR and with the assistance of D. Kunayev was included in the all-union title list of the Gosplan. Architecture The building was erected in 1983 according to the project "KazNIIPIAT" (head of the creative group of the project Tyagovsky V. D., chief engineer Burgumbaev O. E., chief architect Nerovnya V. V., chief designer Bam A.A. and others). It consists of a central two-story and built three-story "storeys", the basic architectural image of the building gives a powerful, 9 meters high, the console overhang of the canopy on the perimeter of the roof. The central parts of the facade of