Kazakh National Academy of Arts

KazNAA) is the main theatre, film, drama, and fine arts and design school in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

[6] The history of the Academy goes back to 1955, when the People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR, A.T. Tokpanov, opened the Theater Department at the Kurmangazy State Conservatory of Alma-Ata.

[8] On January 28, 1989 the institute was named after the first People's Commissar for Education of Kazakhstan, Temirbek Karayevich Zhurgenov [ru].

[10] After the transfer of the capital of the Kazakh SSR from Kyzylorda to Alma-Ata, it became necessary to build a new administrative center for state institutions.

[12] In 1941 the building was reconstructed by architects B. Dergachev, G. Kushnarenko and engineer N. Orazmybetov, as a result of which the wings were completed and the roof was replaced.