In order to implement the tasks set in the program article of the first president of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayev's «Seven Facets of the Great Steppe» in the framework of the VI international «Farabian readings» at the al-Farabi Kazakh National University international scientific-practical conference «Botai culture and other eneolithic monuments of Central Asia» started by the research institute «Archeology and steppe civilizations» faculty of History, archeology and ethnology.

The purpose of the conference is to discuss the main results of many years of research of the Botai monuments in the light of the equestrian culture of the steppe civilization.

The conference was attended by scientists from Kazakhstan, Russia, Britain, USA, France, Denmark, China, Germany, Lithuania, Italy and other countries.

Department of Archeology, ethnology and museology