On June 12, 2025, a lecture titled “The Study of the Botai Culture” was delivered at the Botai settlement for students of Sh. Ualikhanov Kokshetau University.

The program also included an exhibition tour based on materials and artifacts of the Botai culture.

Staff of the Botai Museum-Reserve presented information to the students about the unique results of nearly 40 years of research conducted by Professor V.F. Zaibert and his colleagues from Kazakhstan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Russia, and other countries. These studies provide evidence that the ancient bearers of the Botai culture were the first to domesticate horses on the territory of Kazakhstan, within the Ural–Irtysh interfluve, as early as the late Stone Age.

The students received answers to many questions regarding the historical and cultural legacy of the Botai culture within the steppe civilization, as well as modern research of the comprehensive expedition, including internal processes of equine ecology and genetic, paleozoological, and physicochemical studies of human–horse interaction, along with archaeological training practice.