The mausoleum of Kyzyl Tam (Akhmet)

(Zharkainsky district) 

Was built by order of merchant Akhmet Tankeev by builders Turabai and Rpai. According to legend, one day bai Akhmet fell asleep and did not wake up (apparently, he fell asleep in a lethargic sleep), his family thought that he was dead, and buried him in a mazar. But a few days later they heard some kind of noise in the crypt. When they opened it, they found Bai Akhmet alive, deciding that "Shaitan" had possessed him, they killed him.

During his lifetime, he began the construction of a mazar. The inscription on the mazar (Allah) has been preserved to our times.  Akhmet's descendants still live on the territory of the Zharkain district.

It was first surveyed in 1955 by the AAE exploration detachment (K.A. Akishev), in 1980 by the expedition of the RSNRP "Kazrestavratsiya" (J. Shaikenov), in 2006 by the department of the NIPF Code of the RSE "Kazrestavratsiya" (G.M. Kamalova). It was built by order of merchant Akhmet Tankeev by builders Turabai and Rapai. The walls are made of baked rectangular bricks on a raw mortar and lined on both sides with burnt brick, the base is made of flagstone. The front masonry collapsed at the four corners of the quadrangle from the base to a height of 2 m. The greatest destruction of masonry with a pattern of vertical cracks is observed along the course of the stairwell to the roof on the southeast facade. It characterizes the portal-domed type of the mausoleum with the dimensions of the quadrangle in terms of 6.3 x 6.7 m. The spheroconic dome on a cylindrical drum rises above the quadrangle to a height of 2.5 m. The total height of the mausoleum is 7.15 m. The main facade is from the south-west. The sides are solved in the form of a rectangular portal formed by the continuation of the main wall above the quadrangle. The arched opening of the entrance is flanked on both sides by narrow semi-columns united in the upper part by an arched lintel. The decorative design of the facades is based on a frame edging along the perimeter of the front walls with decorative rows of square bricks with a diamond-shaped pattern stamp and the Arabic spelling of the word "Allah" in alternation with the stripes of the interlocking layout. The central field of the facades is filled with a diamond-shaped pattern of masonry with dark-colored bricks with inserts of brick decorated with ornaments.

Inside, the transition from the quadrangle to the dome is carried out through cantilever sails and lancet niches to the height of the walls. In the southeast. in the corner of the chamber there is a narrow arched opening leading to a stairway to the roof. The tombstone and the brick floor covering are destroyed.