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.
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 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 6 million rubles.
The Minister of Motor Transport informed Kunayev Dinmuhamed, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, about his intention to build the bus terminal and asked for assistance in including the construction in the title list of the USSR Gosplan.
The architects and designers were given a large territory, where due to the natural slope of the relief they managed to organize two-level boarding of the buses.
The project of the new Almaty bus station successfully passed the state expertise of the Gosstroy of the USSR and with the assistance of D. Kunayev was included in the all-union title list of the Gosplan.
It consists of a central two-story and built three-story "storeys", the basic architectural image of the building gives a powerful, 9 meters high, the console overhang of the canopy on the perimeter of the roof.
[5] In 2018, despite the legal prohibition to interfere in the activities of private businesses, the akimat of the city demanded the demolition of all boutiques selling food products attached to the outside of the bus station, possibly due to an attempt to redirect customers and passengers to the large Magnum store located on the opposite side.
At the same time, the akimat forcibly demolished at the expense of the budget public service facilities near the bus stop adjacent to Tolebi Street, the owner of which had all the documents of title.
In 2006, on the recommendation of foreign consultants, there was an idea to stop the operation of the Sairan bus terminal, which was actively lobbied by the then Akim of Almaty Imangali Tasmagambetov.
The Republican Scientific Production and Information Center "Kazecology" conducted an analysis of the environmental situation, in the course of which it was found out that "Sairan" "pollutes" the city by a negligible 0.1%.