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Announcements of the Service: decisions on the State Register, permits, opening hours of the open-air museums and the annual report on declared finds.
2026
Thirty further entries of the State Register are now on this site: monuments of national and local importance in Talas, Nurzhan, Iyık Janyl and the districts, among them the Juma Mosque and the Church of St. Yuhanna in Talas, the…
From 1 November the Caravanserai of Rabat-i-Safed open-air museum is open daily 10:00–16:00. The ticket is 20 som.
The Kara-Suu I cave shelter has been entered in the Register under provisional protection (Reg. No. 26/101), and the rock art at the entrance to the Kara-Suu Canyon has been added to the group of rock-art shelters of the Talas…
The Service has issued excavation permit No. 07/2026 to Talas State University, Department of Archaeology, for a rescue excavation at the mouth of the Kara-Suu Canyon, where a cave shelter was found during the clearing of a…
Before the Feast of St. Janyl the Service reminds visitors that drones are prohibited over Cathedral Hill, Iyık Janyl, at all times, including during the feast. Photography is not permitted inside the church during services.
Under the World Heritage management plan the Service has paid for a survey and scan of the Church of St. Janyl for a virtual tour of the church. The work was done with the archeparchy outside the hours of services. The tour is…
In 2025 the Service received 31 declared finds under the 2010 amendment, 9 of them church property made before 1992. Applications for the 2026 excavation season closed on 1 March.
2025
The ruined chapel above Tegirmen in the Talas valley has been entered in the Register under provisional protection for two years (Reg. No. 25/097), while the site is studied. A silver chalice and paten found below the chapel this…
In 2024 the Service received 29 declared finds, 7 of them church property made before 1992. Applications for the 2025 excavation season closed on 1 March.
2024
Together with the Order of St. Janyl, the Service has completed a condition survey of the twelve ravine cells entered in the Register (Reg. No. 98/015). Two cells need their access steps repaired before next year's pilgrimage…
In 2023 the Service received 27 declared finds, 8 of them church property made before 1992. Finders were paid a quarter of the valuation in each case where the find was declared within ten days.
2023
New signs in Iradi, Russian and English have been put up along the visitors' path at the Caravanserai of Rabat-i-Safed, with a plan of the courtyard, the cells and the gate. The path has been relaid in gravel so that it can be…
2022
On 12 May 1997 the first entries were made in the State Register of Monuments of History and Culture: the Church of St. Janyl and the Ruins of Old Iyık Janyl, the Caravanserai of Rabat-i-Safed, the Kok-Tash Kariz, the Köhne Diz…
2021
The Service has issued Order No. 6 on works in the protection zone of the Köhne Diz citadel and the Old City of Talas (Reg. No. 97/005). It sets out which repairs owners may carry out without approval, and what needs drawings and…
2020
From today the Service receives citizens again on the usual days. Visitors are asked to come one at a time and to wear a mask in the office. Rabat-i-Safed is open daily 9:00–18:00.
Under the quarantine regime the Service's reception of citizens is suspended and the Caravanserai of Rabat-i-Safed open-air museum is closed until further notice. Applications and declarations of finds may be sent by post or fax…
2019
The Service held a seminar in Talas for Gendarmerie district officers on receiving finds under the 2010 amendment. Any find may be handed in at a Gendarmerie post, which gives the finder a receipt and passes the find to the…
Twenty-one years after the Old Juniper (Kart Archa, Reg. No. 98/014) was entered in the Register, the Service, the archeparchy and botanists of Talas State University inspected the tree and the iron crutch under its north limb…
2018
Conservators of the Service have finished this year's work on the carved terracotta portal of the Mausoleum of Kenizek-Khatun (Manas Kümbözü, Reg. No. 97/007): loose tiles were fixed and the joints of the portal arch were…
2016
At today's session on the State Register the Korgon of the Abdrai captains (Reg. No. 98/016), entered in 1998 as a monument of local importance, was raised to national importance. The Abdrai Heritage Foundation has completed the…
The Service's website, opened in 2009, has been renewed. Notices, the rules for visitors to monuments and the application forms HPS-1 to HPS-7 are now on the site; extracts from the State Register will be published online in…