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