The grand opening of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic took place on June 1, 1946. The great scientists such as: Vernadsky V., Berg L., Gumilev L., Mandelshtam N., Fesenko V., Tihov G.A., contributed to its organization. They moved to Kazakhstan during World War II. The first president of the Academy Kanysh Satpayev was the prominent geologist. He has developed the map of mineral resources of the country; Kanysh Satpayev was the first Kazakh academician. The building is located on 28, Shevchenko street, and it was built in 1957. Now it is a historical and architectural monument. The author of the project was the architect Chusev A.V. (one of his famous works is Lenin's mausoleum in Moscow). The great building of the Academy is a center of city complex, located at the intersection of Valikhanov and Shevchenko Streets. It has three main elements in its composition: the monument, the portal and the adjacent housing. There are rows of fountains and vegetation along the axis of the central building (designed by the architects Ripinsky N., Tolmachev V.). There is a monument of Valikhanov Ch. (made by the sculptor Nauryzbaev K.) near the building. There is a bust of Pushkin A. (made by the sculptor Bichugov A.) and the fountain called "Zodiac" (designed by the architect Katsev V., sculptors Tverdohlebov V., Tatarinov A.) on the east side of the building. There is a complex "Gylym Ordasy" inside the building. The complex includes a Central Scientific Library and 18 research organizations and museums devoted to Nature, Archaeology, History of Kazakhstan science, and to rare manuscripts.
