The owners of this restaurant chose a 'Ukrainian peasant inside a windmill' theme and then decided to run with it a few miles. Expect hay wagons, pitchforks and a menu full of gut-busting Ukrainian favourites, such as deruny (potato fritters), golubtsy (stuffed cabbage leaves), vareniki (cherry dumplings) and salo (lard). Service sometimes moves at a glacial pace.
Melnitsa
Nur-Sultan (Astana)
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2.97 MILES
This huge blue-glass-and-white-marble museum covers the history and culture of Kazakhstan from ancient to modern times. Themed halls comprise interactive…
0.65 MILES
Nur-Sultan's most extraordinary building (so far), the Khan Shatyr is a 150m-high, translucent, tentlike structure made of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene …
Palace of Peace & Reconciliation
2.64 MILES
This beautiful glass-and-steel pyramid was opened in 2006 as the home for the triennial Congress of World and Traditional Religions, hosted by Kazakhstan…
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ALZhIR Museum-Memorial Complex
27.44 MILES
During the Stalin years, Akmol, 35km west of Nur-Sultan, housed ALZhIR, a notorious camp for wives and children of men who were interned elsewhere as …
1.26 MILES
Nurzhol bulvar's centrepiece is this 97m-high monument, a white latticed tower crowned by a large glass orb. This embodies a Kazakh legend in which the…
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1.39 MILES
The yurt-shaped museum showcases beautifully presented exhibitions on weaponry and warfare, with striking murals greeting visitors. On the ground floor,…
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3.53 MILES
This rare relic of the 1950s may be gone in a few years' time, banished by the relentless wrecking ball, but for now you can see this enormous, decaying…
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Ploshchad Poyushchykh Fontanov
1.45 MILES
The eastern half of Nurzhol bulvar starts with this plaza, which springs to life with music-and-water shows at 9pm on summer evenings. Further east stand…
Nearby Nur-Sultan (Astana) attractions
0.55 MILES
Duman is a modern leisure centre most worth visiting for its oceanarium, which has over 3000 creatures from the world’s oceans and a 70m shark tunnel…
0.65 MILES
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0.67 MILES
The Atameken – a 200m-long, walk-around country map with models of major buildings – is quite fun.
0.7 MILES
East of Khan Shatyr, across a park, stand the grand headquarters of the state energy company, KazMunayGaz.
5. Transport & Communications Ministry
0.74 MILES
The tall, gleaming, copper Transport & Communications Ministry, has been dubbed the ‘Lighter’ by irreverent locals. Ironically, there was a fire inside…
0.95 MILES
Striking office blocks whose tops splay outward like the pages of opening books.
0.98 MILES
The large, somewhat-untidy city park abuts the south side of the Ishim river. On its southern edge you'll find the Atameken, a 200m-long, walk-around…
1.03 MILES
A block south of the western part of Nurzhol bulvar stands the beautiful four-minaret Nur Astana mosque, opened in 2005. Its prayer hall (for men only –…