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Salburyn Hunting Festival in Almaty Region
A multi-day Kazakh hunting tradition combining eagles, falcons, and tazy sighthounds, structured as a winter apprenticeship camp where elder hunters mentor younger participants before hunting begins under a formal blessing. Revived in the Almaty region as both a practical skill and a heritage-recognition effort tied to UNESCO documentation.
Long before rifles arrived on the steppe, Kazakh hunters tracked foxes, wolves, and other game using golden eagles, falcons, and tazy sighthounds working in coordinated teams, and salburyn preserves that combined-method hunting tradition as a living, multi-day ritual rather than a single competitive event.