July 15, 2001 was completed on the left bank of the Ishim River, the monument "Astana - Baiterek" monument lay the foundation .In the legend of Baytureke - fairy tree growing on Mount Kok - Tobe, washed by the boundless ocean. Every year, it leaves the sacred bird Samruk lays the golden egg - the sun. Each year, the dragon eats a light that symbolically means day and night, summer and winter, Good and Evil, Light and Darkness. The metal structure 105 meters high, weighing over 1,000 tonnes and is based on 500 piles. Ball diameter 22 meters and weighing 300 tons of glass - a chameleon, changing light depending on the sunlight, is raised to a height of 97 meters - a reminder that the new capital of Kazakhstan appeared in 1997.
