DOMBAUYL MAUSOELUM

BAUYL MAUSOLEUM is a tomb construction, monument of the medieval architecture in Karaganda oblast. It is located in 50 km to the north-east of Zhezkazgan town on the left bank of the Kengir River.

Dombauyl Mausoleum has a shape of a yurt. It is built of a flag-stone and represents a conic construction on a square-like foundation.

The total height of the building is 6 m. The author of the project is unknown.

The Dombauyl Mausoleum was mentioned for the first time in Shokan Ualikhanov's article On Kirgiz-Kaisak tombs and antiquities in general.

Scientists carry the Dombauyl Mausoleum back to the pre-Islamic period (VIII-IX centuries). Stone tomb constructions like Dombauyl were called uitasami, dynami by Kazakhs. They are widely spread in Central Kazakhstan, in particular in the Torgay river-valley.

Source: Kazakhstan, National Encyclopedia, Volume 2