OREANDA-NEWS. On August 11, 2008 The President Nursultan Nazarbayev returned from Beijing where he took part in the Opening Ceremony of Olympic Games. He arrived in Almaty and visited several objects of the southern capital, reported the Official website www.akorda.kz.

The Head of the state surveyed a road junction being constructed at the intersection of Abai and Dzhandosov streets, and a newly built junction at the crossroad of Ryskulov and Rozybakiyev streets.

The Mayor of the city Akmetzhan Yessimov acquainted the President with projects on construction of such road junctions at the crossroad of Satpayev-Zhandosov, Al-Farabi - Zharokov, Raimbek – Suyunbai, Sain – Tole-bi streets.

As is known, 52 similar road objects will be constructed in Almaty to ease road traffic circulation.

Then Nursultan Nazarbayev visited the wholesale market "Arzan" that belongs to “Raimbek Group” LLC. The word “arzan” in Russian means "cheap". The main feature of the market is the low price for food and consumer goods. The market where goods are sold by the piece and wholesale has already become popular among Almaty residents.

As the Director General of “Raimbek Group” Yerlan Shinturinov told the President of the country, “Arzan” market can keep prices down due to direct contracts with producers and own processing base. As a rule, owing to intermediaries and high cost of retail service the price for food in Almaty shops grows up to 51 percent. As to "Arzan" wholesale market, the price for goods is only 12 percent higher than producers’ price. The price for goods in “Arzan” market is 45 percent lower on the average than price for goods in “Ramstore” supermarkets.

“Raimbek Group” company has two such wholesale markets, but plans to open similar ones in all regional centers of Kazakhstan. As a result “Arzan” trading network will consist of 15 such markets.

The President Nursultan Nazarbayev highly estimated this business project as an effective way of inflation lowering. He charged Mayor of Almaty Akhmetzhan Yessimov to render the company assistance to open such markets in other areas of the city.

- It will be fine, if such wholesale markets will appear in all the cities of Kazakhstan. I support the undertaking of "Raimbek" Company, Nursultan Nazarbayev stressed.

The Head of the state also visited "Orbita Boiler-House”. It will be launched in the nearest future. Three new modern thermal generating units with 100 gigocalories capacity each one are set here. Totally the boiler-house will produce 410 gigocalories and provide heating of the whole southern part of the city, from Orbita microdistrict to Dostyk Avenue. It is especially important, as there are a lot of new buildings in this area.

Today in Almaty residence the President received the rector of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov. The rector of the leading higher education institution of the country presented the Head of the state university development program for the next three years to come and shared the ways of higher education development in Kazakhstan.