One of the most famous press photographers in Almaty Maxim Zolotukhin is a real fan of his home city. His works collect dozens of likes on Facebook, but you can see a series of his photographs dedicated to Almaty and shot from above in different seasons only on Vox Populi. The largest city of Kazakhstan is impossible to fit into one picture, but each of its parts looks incredibly beautiful.

Officially skateboarding is not considered to be a sport in Kazakhstan, but the guys prove it wrong demonstrating decent results in competitions. However, the conditions for developing skateboarding are minimal in the country.

On April 15 a huge crowd of people gathered in The First Kazakhstani President park in Almaty. A traffic jam formed on Al-Farabi avenue, where people were shouting "Hurray!" and everywhere one by one paper hearts were flying up into the air. This way a new Kazakhstani holiday, Lovers Day, was unofficially announced.

There are several signs of approaching New Year. The prices of tangerines are twice higher than usually. Suddenly you have been given a bonus at work. In the North of the country the cars engines cannot be started. However, for those who failed to notice these signs city authorities obliged all the institutions to adorn the facades of their buildings for New Year. Voxpopuli.kz decided to show the brightest and most beautifully decorated places in Almaty and Astana. To those who can guess the exact addresses of where these pictures were taken will get two tickets to the cinema in either of the two cities. P.S. The next photoreport will be published on the website on the 5th of January. The results of this competition will be announced then. Happy New Year!


And our winners are:
baigaliyev
alijandro

Congratulations!

Clean streets, coolness, pure mountain air and traffic jam-free roads... It seems that Almaty is never going to be the same as in our childhood. However, during morning hours (approximately from 5 till 7 am) the city looks like itself several years ago. Probably, sometimes we had better wake up a couple of hours earlier to get the feeling of morning Almaty.