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Sacred places of the East Kazakhstan » Mausoleum of Yrgyzbay Doskanauy
This sacred place of the East Kazakhstan is put on a par with Turkestan. The simple, unremarkable stone burial ground was built in the mid-19th century and has been rebuilt several times.
The history of the construction of the grave begins in 1924, when one of Yrgyzbay’s descendants, Shynybay, roamed near these places. He had a dream in which his ancestor asked to build a monument to him, and as a reward he promised that three sons would be born to Shynybay. Shynybay built a stone fence, and everything happened as the healer predicted. Thus begins the fame of the magical power of the grave, its healing properties.
Doskanauly Yrgyzbay was born in 1787 and died in 1850. He became famous for his medical gift, was a herbalist, a chiropractor, and determined diagnoses by pulse. The healer treated people from smallpox, a skin disease so popular in nomadic environments. According to rumors, he used surgical instruments during treatment.
Yrgyzbay gained great fame in the steppe. Among his patients was the father of the great Abay Kunanbay, who, in gratitude for the healing, gave him a mare with a foal, saying: “If Allah allows, then with this horse you will not know the need.” The fame of the healing power of Yrgyzbay has survived centuries.
In 1990, local residents erected a mausoleum over Yrgyzbay’s grave. The last time the grave was restored was in 2014.
To this day, sufferers make a pilgrimage to his grave to spend the night there and receive healing that occurs during sleep, so one should leave the grave before the first rays of the sun.
The mausoleum of Yrgyzbay Doskanauy is located in Tarbagatay district, 63 kilometers northwest of Aksuat.
From the regional center of Ust-Kamenogorsk city to the mausoleum of Yrgyzbay Doskanauly – 420 km (through Kalbatau, Kokpekty along the Zaisan highway, turn right at the Bogas picket, turn right along the Ayaguz highway, then follow the sign to the mausoleum).
A mosque, a guest house, a museum with more than 600 exhibits from all over the world and a library containing more than two thousand ancient books, including medical treatises by ibn-Sina, written in the XVII-XVIII centuries, were built at the mausoleum.
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