Each era gives birth to its heroes – people who leave their mark in the life of the country. Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev was one of those people, the first Kazakh railway engineer, author of the Great line - the Turkestan-Siberian railway.
The opening of Turksib in 1930 played a huge role in the development of Almaty infrastructure. In the first years of construction of Turksib the station building was located on Red Army highway (currently Suyunbay avenue).
Almaty-2 railway station is located in a dead-end branch. The trains with final destination points of Almaty arrive at this station. The railway station was built in 1938 according to the project of architects A.P. Galkin and M. Kudryavtsev, artist I.B. Vahek on Stalin Avenue (now Abylaikhan Street). The building of the station fully corresponded to the status of the capital of the country (from 1929 til 1997 Almaty was the capital of Kazakhstan). The building is built in classic style and has a symmetrical composition. In the lobby of the station, there are newsstands, a pharmacy, souvenir shops, post office, and information desk. In the eastern hall, there are ticket windows, a restaurant, and a waiting room; in the western pavilion there is a ticket office, and a luggage storage facility. After the reconstruction in the 70s, the station has become more comfortable, and today it is one of the monuments of history and culture of Almaty.
