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Station Alma-Ata 1 under reconstruction. 2005-09-07 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Platform at station Alma-Ata 1 under reconstruction. 2005-09-07 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Morning at Alma-Ata 1. 2005-09-07 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Morning at Alma-Ata 1. 2005-09-07 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Train 13 from Urumchi arriving at it's destination Alma-Ata 2. 2005-09-07 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Train no. 13 from Urumchi just arrived at it's destination Alma-Ata 2. 2005-09-07 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Station Alma-Ata 2. 2005-09-07 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Travel agency in Alma-Ata with railway ticket office selling also international tickets to Warszawa, Berlin and Urumchi (travel to other former Soviet countries is still considered as "domestic"). 2005-09-12 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Travel agency in Alma-Ata with railway ticket office selling also international tickets to Warszawa, Berlin and Urumchi (travel to other former Soviet countries is still considered as "domestic"). 2005-09-12 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Inside Alma-Ata 1 station. 2005-09-15 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Alma-Ata 1 station. 2005-09-15 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Reconstruction works are atking place at Alma-Ata 1 station. 2005-09-15 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Reconstruction work at Alma Ata 1 station. 2005-09-15 Helmut Uttenthaler helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Reconstruction work at the platform at Alma Ata 1 station. 2005-09-15 Helmut Uttenthaler helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Train 23KH to Aktjubinsk leaving Alma-Ata 1 station. 2005-09-15 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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Interior of the station Almaty-1, early morning, 2008-08-11. tobias b köhler

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Interior of a building of station Alma-Ata-1. USSR, Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata, May 1986. Photo by Mikhail Utkin, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, pechnik@yandex.ru. Scan from slide by "KonicaDigital", Moscow, www.photocenter.ru.

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Kind of a building of station Alma-Ata-2 before reconstruction - it now is reveted with a light grey marble. USSR, Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata, July 1985. Photo by Mikhail Utkin, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, pechnik@yandex.ru. Scan from slide by "KonicaDigital", Moscow, www.photocenter.ru.

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ala1: Реконструкция пассажирского здания Алма-Ата 1. Перрон второго и третьего путей уже почти полностью разобран. "Турксиб", станция Алма-Ата 1, 24 апреля 2005. / Reconstruction of Alma-Ata-1 railway terminal. The platform of the second and third ways already almost is completely disassembled. "Turksib" (Turkestan-Siberia) railway, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, April 24 2005. Photo by Mikhail Utkin. pechnik@yandex.ru

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Almaty2 (Kazakhstan) main railway station, july 2000 many direct trains to different countries (Russia, Uzbekistan, China ...) Photo by Radek Pohl radekp@mail.ru