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Last updated: July 2026, shortly after construction officially began.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almaty Superski is the largest mountain-tourism project ever attempted in Central Asia: a plan to join the ski areas above Almaty – Shymbulak, Oi-Qaragai, Pioneer, Kimasar and Butakovka – with an entirely new resort core on the Kok-Zhailau plateau into a single connected ski domain of more than 200 kilometres. Construction officially began on 10 July 2026. If it opens as planned in December 2028, Almaty will jump from a city with three separate mid-sized resorts to one of the largest linked ski areas outside the Alps – twenty minutes from a city of two million and an international airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project in numbers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Connected ski domain<\/strong><\/td>200+ km of pistes (today: ~60 km across separate resorts)<\/td><\/tr>\n
Lifts<\/strong><\/td>58 planned, from 16 today; 11 new cable cars already under construction (POMA, France)<\/td><\/tr>\n
New resort core<\/strong><\/td>Kok-Zhailau plateau and Kumbel, inside Ile-Alatau National Park – 65 km of pistes and 16 lifts planned<\/td><\/tr>\n
Design<\/strong><\/td>Foster + Partners masterplan, mass-timber architecture<\/td><\/tr>\n
Roads & infrastructure<\/strong><\/td>6-km access road, bridges and utilities targeted for September 2027<\/td><\/tr>\n
Opening target<\/strong><\/td>December 2028 (first phase)<\/td><\/tr>\n
Investment programme<\/strong><\/td>92.8 billion \u20b8 across 2025-2029, roughly 90% private<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Every figure above is an official target. Projects of this size move their dates – treat the timeline as direction of travel, not a promise. We update this page as milestones actually happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is being built, and where<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The project has two stages. Stage one<\/strong>, now under way, builds the new core: the access road up from the city, utilities, eleven cable cars, and the first resort infrastructure on Kok-Zhailau – the broad, grassy plateau between the Small and Big Almaty gorges that Almaty residents have hiked for generations. Stage two<\/strong>, planned from 2027, modernises and expands Pioneer and Oi-Qaragai and connects them to the network by cable car, so that in the final vision you could ride lifts from the Shymbulak side across to Oi-Qaragai without touching a road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The existing resorts keep operating throughout. At Shymbulak<\/a>, seven new lift lines began construction in May 2026 with the first two due to open by the end of the year – the first visible piece of Superski most visitors will actually ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What it means for your trip<\/h2>\n\n\n\n