Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages

The Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages, abbreviated KazUIR&WL, is a public university in central Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, devoted to foreign-language teaching, translation, area studies and international relations.阿布莱汗国际关系与外国语大学（KazUIR&WL）是哈萨克斯坦最大城市阿拉木图市中心的公立大学，专注外语教学、翻译、区域研究与国际关系。

It was established in 1941 as the Kazakh State Teachers' Institute of Foreign Languages, was renamed the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in 1944 and took its present name and university status in 1998.该校 1941 年以哈萨克国立外语师范学院之名创办，1944 年更名为哈萨克外语师范学院，1998 年改用现名并取得大学地位。

It teaches ten foreign languages to about 7,000 students, has produced some 90,000 graduates and employs 503 teachers, of whom 40 hold a PhD, 42 a doctor of sciences degree and 124 a candidate degree.学校教授十种外语，在校生约 7000 人，已培养约 9 万名毕业生，聘有 503 名教师，其中 40 人拥有博士学位、42 人拥有科学博士学位、124 人拥有副博士学位。

History

• The university's legal origin is a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, No. 1696 of 16 September 1940, which ordered the creation of a state teachers' institute of foreign languages in Alma-Ata.该校的法律源头是苏联部长会议 1940 年 9 月 16 日第 1696 号决议，该决议要求在阿拉木图创建一所国立外语师范学院。
• Teaching began in 1941 with 231 students divided among three language faculties, 113 studying English, 97 German and 21 French, the three languages that defined the institute's early profile.1941 年开学时共有 231 名学生，分属三个语言系，其中 113 人学英语、97 人学德语、21 人学法语，这三种语言奠定了学院早期的学科格局。
• At the end of 1941 the People's Commissariat of Education of the Kazakh SSR approved the institute's charter, making it an independent teaching and research institution with three faculties.1941 年底，哈萨克苏维埃社会主义共和国教育人民委员部批准学院章程，使其成为拥有三个系的独立教学与研究机构。
• Khanakhmed Karaevich served as the first rector in 1941, and Maulen Balakaev succeeded him from 1941 to 1942 while the institute was still assembling its staff and first cohort.哈纳艾哈迈德·卡拉耶维奇于 1941 年出任首任校长，马乌连·巴拉卡耶夫于 1941 至 1942 年继任，当时学院仍在组建师资与首届学生。
• Varvara Fisenko led the institute from 1943 to 1947, the first woman to hold the post, in a period when the war had depleted the male teaching staff.瓦尔瓦拉·菲先科于 1943 至 1947 年执掌学院，是该机构首位女性校长，当时战争已使男性师资大量流失。
• Alexey Kuznetsov served as rector from 1947 to 1951 and Pavel Pakhmurny from 1951 to 1956, an eight-year stretch in which the institute stabilised its three language faculties after the war.阿列克谢·库兹涅佐夫于 1947 至 1951 年任校长，帕维尔·帕赫穆尔内于 1951 至 1956 年任校长，这八年使学院在战后稳住了三个语言系的建制。
• In April 1944 the institution was renamed the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, reflecting its new mandate to train secondary-school language teachers across the republic.1944 年 4 月，学院更名为哈萨克外语师范学院，以反映其在全共和国培养中学外语教师的新使命。
• In August 1944 the government ordered a Faculty of Oriental Languages with an intake of 30 students, but the faculty closed three years later because demand for Chinese teachers was too thin.1944 年 8 月，政府下令设立东方语言系，首批招收 30 人；三年后该系因汉语教师需求不足而停办。
• Tulesh Iskakov was rector from 1956 to 1962 and Nurymbek Zhandildinov from 1967 to 1976, a period in which the institute expanded its language pairs and its teacher-training intake.图列什·伊斯卡科夫于 1956 至 1962 年任校长，努伦别克·占迪尔丁诺夫于 1967 至 1976 年任校长，这一时期学院扩充了语种组合与师范招生规模。
• Azhar Ibraeva, rector from 1962 to 1967, was the second woman to lead the institute after Varvara Fisenko, and Kakhan Akhanov held the post from 1977 to 1978.阿扎尔·伊布拉耶娃于 1962 至 1967 年任校长，是继瓦尔瓦拉·菲先科之后第二位领导学院的女性；卡汉·阿哈诺夫于 1977 至 1978 年任校长。
• By 1983 the institute had 4,500 students on three faculties, 30 chairs and 412 teachers, including seven professors and doctors of science and 112 docents and candidates.到 1983 年，学院三个系共有 4500 名学生、30 个教研室与 412 名教师，其中教授与科学博士 7 人、副教授与副博士 112 人。
• Rakysh Amirov led the institute from 1979 to 1987 and Beimbet Irmukhanov from 1987 to 1992, the latter presiding over the transition from Soviet to Kazakhstani higher education after 1991.拉基什·阿米罗夫于 1979 至 1987 年任校长，别伊姆别特·伊尔穆哈诺夫于 1987 至 1992 年任校长，后者主持了 1991 年后从苏联高等教育向哈萨克斯坦体系的过渡。
• Kazakhstan's independence in December 1991 turned a Soviet teachers' institute into a national resource for diplomacy, and its foreign-language graduates moved quickly into the new republic's foreign service.1991 年 12 月哈萨克斯坦独立，使这所苏联时期的师范学院成为国家的外交资源，其外语毕业生迅速进入新生共和国的外交系统。
• Adil Akhmetov was rector from 1992 to 1997, and in 1998 the institute was transformed into the Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages, named after the eighteenth-century khan.阿迪尔·艾哈迈托夫于 1992 至 1997 年任校长；1998 年，学院改制为以十八世纪阿布莱汗命名的哈萨克国际关系与外国语大学。
• Salima Kunanbayeva first held the rectorate in 1998, yielded it briefly to Akhmetov from February to October 1999 and has led the university continuously since October 1999.萨利玛·库南巴耶娃于 1998 年首次出任校长，1999 年 2 月至 10 月短暂由艾哈迈托夫接任，自 1999 年 10 月起一直执掌该校。
• The university's original building at 84 Tole Bi Street was erected in 1940 to designs by the architects G. Voznyuk and Yu. M. Kudryavtsev, before the institute itself opened.该校位于托列比街 84 号的原校舍建于 1940 年，由建筑师沃兹纽克与库德里亚夫采夫设计，早于学院正式开学。
• After the rectorate moved to 200 Muratbayeva Street, the Tole Bi building became the university's second building and now houses the Faculty of Translation and Philology.校部迁至穆拉特巴耶夫街 200 号后，托列比街校舍成为学校二号楼，现由翻译与语文学院使用。
• On 10 November 2010 a new state list of historical and cultural monuments of Almaty confirmed the Tole Bi building's status as a monument of local significance, and protection zones were fixed in 2014.2010 年 11 月 10 日，阿拉木图新的历史文化遗迹名录确认托列比街校舍为地方级保护建筑，其保护范围于 2014 年划定。
• The university marked its 80th anniversary in 2021, by which time it had grown from a single-purpose teachers' institute into Kazakhstan's main school of diplomacy and applied linguistics.该校于 2021 年迎来建校 80 周年，此时它已从单一目标的师范学院发展为哈萨克斯坦主要的外交与应用语言学学府。
• In the 2024-25 academic year the teaching staff reached 503, and by 2025 the university offered 19 bachelor's programmes across five teaching faculties and a postgraduate department.2024–25 学年，该校教师增至 503 人；到 2025 年，学校在五个教学学院与一个研究生部之下开设 19 个本科专业。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into five faculties, the Pedagogical Faculty of Foreign Languages, the Faculty of Translation and Philology, the Faculty of Management and International Communications, the Faculty of International Relations, Law and Business, and the Faculty of Oriental Studies.教学分为五个学院，即外语师范学院、翻译与语文学院、管理与国际传播学院、国际关系法律与商业学院、东方学学院。
• The Pedagogical Faculty of Foreign Languages trains teachers in two foreign languages and in pedagogy and psychology, supplying language teachers to schools across Kazakhstan.外语师范学院培养双外语师资以及教育学与心理学人才，为哈萨克斯坦各地学校输送外语教师。
• The Faculty of Translation and Philology teaches translation studies, including simultaneous interpreting, and foreign philology in English, French and German.翻译与语文学院教授翻译学（含同声传译）以及英语、法语、德语的外国语言学。
• The Faculty of International Relations, Law and Business combines international relations, regional studies, jurisprudence, international law, economics, management and marketing.国际关系法律与商业学院整合国际关系、区域研究、法学、国际法、经济学、管理与市场营销等专业。
• The Faculty of Management and International Communications covers tourism management, journalism, hotel and restaurant management, cultural and communicative services and public relations.管理与国际传播学院涵盖旅游管理、新闻学、酒店与餐饮管理、文化与传播服务以及公共关系。
• The Faculty of Oriental Studies teaches Chinese, Korean, Arabic and Japanese alongside translation and philology, making it the university's main centre for Asian languages.东方学学院教授汉语、韩语、阿拉伯语与日语，并开设翻译与语言学课程，是该校亚洲语言的主要教学中心。
• Nineteen bachelor's programmes were on offer in 2025, and the Department of Postgraduate Education coordinates master's and doctoral studies across the five faculties.2025 年学校开设 19 个本科专业，研究生部则在五个学院之上统筹硕士与博士培养。
• Ten foreign languages are taught, a range that includes the major European languages, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Japanese and Turkish.学校教授十种外语，涵盖主要欧洲语言以及汉语、韩语、阿拉伯语、日语和土耳其语。
• In 2024-25 the faculty numbered 503, including 40 PhD holders, 42 doctors of science and 124 candidates of science, a high proportion of advanced degrees for a Kazakhstani university.2024–25 学年教师共 503 人，其中博士 40 人、科学博士 42 人、副博士 124 人，在哈萨克斯坦高校中高级学位比例较高。
• The student body is about 7,000, and the university counts roughly 90,000 graduates since 1941, many of them working as teachers, translators and diplomats.在校生约 7000 人；自 1941 年以来，学校累计培养约 9 万名毕业生，其中许多人从事教师、翻译与外交工作。
• Research concentrates on language policy, intercultural communication and the methodology of foreign-language teaching, fields in which the university runs doctoral programmes.科研集中于语言政策、跨文化交际与外语教学法，该校在这些方向开设博士项目。
• The university participates in the UNESCO network, the European Language Council, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, EAIE, EUPRERA, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and Eurasian Economic Union consortia.学校参与联合国教科文组织网络、欧洲语言理事会、法语大学联盟、欧洲国际教育协会、欧洲公共关系教育与研究协会、上海合作组织以及欧亚经济联盟的联合体。
• Its international profile is built on language teaching rather than on science, and its partnerships are strongest with European, Central Asian and East Asian universities.该校的国际影响力建立在语言教学而非自然科学之上，其合作院校以欧洲、中亚与东亚高校为主。
• Because Kazakhstan's diplomatic service recruits heavily from the university, its international relations and international law programmes carry a practical, foreign-service orientation.由于哈萨克斯坦外交部门大量从该校招人，其国际关系与国际法专业带有明显的实务与外交职业导向。
• The university's language teaching is supported by the Oriental Studies faculty's four Asian language sections and by translation laboratories used for simultaneous interpreting practice.该校的语言教学依托东方学学院的四个亚洲语言教研室，以及用于同声传译训练的翻译实验室。
• Instruction is mainly in Kazakh and Russian, with foreign-language degree programmes taught partly in the target language, especially in translation and area studies.教学主要以哈萨克语和俄语进行，外语类专业则以目标语言教授部分课程，翻译与区域研究专业尤为明显。
• The university awards bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in philology, translation, pedagogy, international relations, law, economics and management, but not in engineering or medicine.学校在语言学、翻译、教育学、国际关系、法学、经济学与管理学领域授予学士、硕士与博士学位，但不设工程与医学专业。
• Its scientific library and reading rooms hold materials in the ten taught languages, supporting translation, area studies and language-policy research across the five faculties.学校科学图书馆与阅览室藏有十种授课语言的资料，为五个学院的翻译、区域研究与语言政策研究提供支撑。

Campus

• The main campus is at 200 Muratbayeva Street in the Medeu district of central Almaty, within walking distance of the city's administrative and cultural core.主校区位于阿拉木图市中心梅德乌区穆拉特巴耶夫街 200 号，步行可达城市的行政与文化核心区。
• The university's second building at 84 Tole Bi Street is its historic home, a three-storey, T-shaped brick building in adapted classical forms with a pink painted facade.位于托列比街 84 号的二号楼是学校的历史校舍，为三层砖砌丁字形建筑，采用改造过的古典形式，外墙涂成粉红色。
• That 1940 building has a tall attic with three relief semicircular arches, medallions bearing Soviet heraldry and a corridor plan typical of Stalin-era educational architecture.这座 1940 年建筑拥有带三个浮雕半圆拱的高阁楼层、饰有苏联纹章的圆形浮雕，以及斯大林时期教育建筑常见的走廊式平面。
• The Tole Bi building retains its assembly hall and lecture rooms, and it has been a protected monument of local significance since the 2010 Almaty listing.托列比街校舍保留着礼堂与教室，自 2010 年列入阿拉木图保护名录以来一直是地方级保护建筑。
• The rectorate, the faculties of international relations and Oriental studies, and the main library operate from the Muratbayeva Street complex in the city centre.校部、国际关系学院、东方学学院与主图书馆均在市中心的穆拉特巴耶夫街建筑群办公。
• Student dormitories stand in central Almaty rather than on a suburban campus, so students live within the city's transport and cultural network.学生宿舍位于阿拉木图市区而非郊区校园，学生因此处于城市交通与文化网络之中。
• Almaty's metro, bus lines and the proximity of the Panfilov Park and Green Bazaar area make the campus accessible without a private car.阿拉木图地铁、公交线路以及潘菲洛夫公园与绿色巴扎一带的邻近，使校园无需私家车即可抵达。
• The university has no large botanical or sports estate, and its facilities are urban buildings adapted to language teaching, interpreting practice and area-studies libraries.该校没有大型植物园或体育园区，其设施是适应语言教学、口译实训与区域研究资料需求的城市建筑。
• The surrounding Medeu district houses consulates, international organisations and media offices, giving students of diplomacy and journalism direct exposure to professional environments and internships.校园所在的梅德乌区聚集领事馆、国际组织与媒体机构，为外交与新闻专业学生提供直接接触职业环境与实习的机会。

Reputation

• QS placed the university in the 1401+ band of the World University Rankings 2027, the final bracket that 102 institutions share rather than a single position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校处于 1401+ 区间；这是 102 所高校共同占据的末段并列档，而非单一具体名次。
• In the 2026 QS World University Rankings the university stood in the 1201-1400 band, and QS ranked it 326th in Asia and 23rd in Central Asia.在 2026 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校处于 1201–1400 区间；QS 同时将其列为亚洲第 326 位、中亚第 23 位。
• QS subject rankings for 2026 placed the university at 201-250 in Linguistics and 251-300 in Modern Languages, its two strongest disciplinary positions.2026 年 QS 学科排名将该校语言学列在第 201–250 位、现代语言列在第 251–300 位，这是其最强的两个学科位次。
• The university does not appear in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, nor in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities list.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2026–2027 年度美国新闻与世界报道全球大学榜单。
• It is also absent from the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, so QS is the only major global ranking in which it appears.该校同样未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，因此在四大全球主榜中仅出现在 QS 榜单上。
• Within Kazakhstan the university is the specialist institution for foreign languages and diplomacy, and its graduates fill a large share of the country's foreign service and translation market.在哈萨克斯坦国内，该校是外语与外交领域的专门院校，其毕业生在该国外事部门与翻译市场占据相当大的份额。
• It competes domestically with Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Nazarbayev University, Kazakh National Pedagogical University and KIMEP University, all larger or broader institutions but none as specialised in foreign languages and interpreting.在国内，它与法拉比哈萨克国立大学、古米廖夫欧亚国立大学、纳扎尔巴耶夫大学、哈萨克国立师范大学和基梅普大学竞争；这些学校规模更大或学科更广，但都不像它这样专攻外语与口译。
• Its QS Central Asian position of 23rd places it behind the country's large research universities but ahead of most regional pedagogical and language institutes.其 QS 中亚第 23 位排在哈萨克斯坦大型研究型大学之后，但领先于多数地区性师范与语言学院。
• The university advertises international awards including the Austrian Honorary Cross, the French Academic Palm, the Lomonosov Order and the Socrates and European Quality prizes.该校对外展示多项国际荣誉，包括奥地利荣誉十字勋章、法国学术棕榈勋章、罗蒙诺索夫勋章，以及苏格拉底奖与欧洲质量奖。
• It holds an international quality certificate from the Swiss Institute of Quality Standards and a national Industry Leader medal in the socio-economic sector.学校持有瑞士质量标准研究所颁发的国际质量证书，并获得社会经济领域的国家级“行业领军者”奖章。
• No Nobel laureate is associated with the university, and its reputation rests on language pedagogy, interpreting and the diplomatic careers of its alumni rather than on research citations.该校没有诺贝尔奖得主，其声誉建立在语言教学、口译以及校友的外交生涯之上，而非论文被引。

Student life

• With ten languages taught on one central campus, students routinely mix Kazakh, Russian and a target foreign language in the same day, and language clubs organise conversation hours.学校在同一个市中心校区教授十种语言，学生一天之内常在哈萨克语、俄语与目标外语之间切换，语言社团则组织会话时段。
• The Faculty of Oriental Studies draws students of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Arabic, and its language sections run script, calligraphy and culture evenings through the year.东方学学院吸引学习汉语、韩语、日语与阿拉伯语的学生，其语言教研室全年举办文字、书法与文化晚会。
• Because dormitories sit in the city centre, student life is interwoven with Almaty's cafes, theatres and mountain trails rather than confined to a residential campus.由于宿舍位于市中心，学生生活与阿拉木图的咖啡馆、剧院和山间步道交织，而非局限于住宿式校园。
• The student body mixes ethnic Kazakh, Russian, Uyghur and other Central Asian students, and the language clubs reflect a city where Kazakh, Russian and English are used side by side.学生群体由哈萨克族、俄罗斯族、维吾尔族及其他中亚族裔学生混合构成；语言社团也反映出这座城市哈萨克语、俄语与英语并用的现实。
• The university's location in the Medeu district puts students near the Panfilov Park, the Zenkov Cathedral and the cable car to Kok-Tobe hill.学校所在的梅德乌区使学生邻近潘菲洛夫公园、升天大教堂以及通往科克托别山的缆车。
• Almaty's winter sports facilities at Shymbulak and the skating rink at Medeu are within an hour of the campus and are used by student groups in the colder months.阿拉木图的琼布拉克冬季运动设施与梅德乌滑冰场距校园不到一小时车程，是学生团体在寒冷季节的常用去处。
• Career talks by the diplomatic service, translation agencies and international organisations are a regular part of student life, reflecting the university's professional orientation.外交部门、翻译机构与国际组织的职业讲座是学生生活的常规内容，体现该校的职业导向。
• Graduation coincides with Almaty's spring, and the university's anniversary in 2021 was marked with events for its 90,000-strong alumni network.毕业季恰逢阿拉木图春季；2021 年校庆期间，学校为其约 9 万人的校友网络举办了系列活动。

Notable people

• Khanakhmed Karaevich, the first rector in 1941, established the institute's three language faculties and its first charter at the height of the war.哈纳艾哈迈德·卡拉耶维奇于 1941 年出任首任校长，在战争最严峻时确立了学院三个语言系与首部章程。
• Maulen Balakaev, rector from 1941 to 1942, was a linguist whose tenure covered the institute's first full academic year and its initial teacher intake.马乌连·巴拉卡耶夫于 1941 至 1942 年任校长，身为语言学家，其任期涵盖学院首个完整学年与首批师范生招生。
• Varvara Fisenko, rector from 1943 to 1947, rebuilt the teaching staff after the war and was the first woman to lead the institution.瓦尔瓦拉·菲先科于 1943 至 1947 年任校长，战后重建师资队伍，是该机构首位女性领导人。
• Salima Kunanbayeva, rector since October 1999, is a linguist who led the transformation into a university of international relations and world languages.萨利玛·库南巴耶娃自 1999 年 10 月起任校长，作为语言学家，她主导了学校向国际关系与外国语大学的转型。
• Anatoly Domashnev, a Russian linguist who lived from 1927 to 2001, studied at the institute and became known for his work on Germanic and comparative linguistics.俄罗斯语言学家阿纳托利·多马什涅夫（1927–2001）曾在该校学习，后以日耳曼语文学与比较语言学研究知名。
• Kairat Umarov, a graduate, was Kazakhstan's ambassador to the United States from 2013, permanent representative to the United Nations from 2017 and first deputy foreign minister from 2022.校友凯拉特·乌马罗夫自 2013 年任哈萨克斯坦驻美国大使，2017 年起任常驻联合国代表，2022 年起任外交部第一副部长。
• Umarov also presided over the United Nations Security Council in January 2018, when Kazakhstan held the council's rotating presidency.2018 年 1 月，哈萨克斯坦担任联合国安理会轮值主席国期间，乌马罗夫主持了安理会工作。
• Aigul Kuspan, a diplomat by training, is a member of Kazakhstan's Mäjilis, the lower house of parliament, and one of the university's most senior alumni in elected office.艾古尔·库斯潘受过外交训练，现为哈萨克斯坦议会下院马吉利斯议员，是该校在民选职位上职位最高的校友之一。
• Bolat Nussupov and Baqytbek Shabarbaev, both career diplomats, have represented Kazakhstan abroad, continuing the university's pattern of supplying the foreign service.博拉特·努苏波夫与巴克特别克·沙巴尔巴耶夫均为职业外交官，曾在海外代表哈萨克斯坦，延续了该校向外事部门输送人才的格局。
• Aibek Smadiarov, an alumnus, served as press secretary of Kazakhstan's presidential administration, while Aibek Dadebai has held posts in national and municipal administration.校友艾别克·斯马迪亚罗夫曾任哈萨克斯坦总统办公厅新闻秘书，艾别克·达德拜则曾在国家与市政管理机构任职。
• Yenlik, a singer and songwriter, and Jan Izbasar, an actor, are among the alumni who moved from language studies into Kazakhstan's cultural industries.歌手兼词曲作者延利克与演员扬·伊兹巴萨尔，是由语言专业转入哈萨克斯坦文化产业的校友代表。
• Kadirzhan Abuev, a historian, and Camilla Lee, an art historian, represent the scholarly side of the alumni network in the humanities and heritage fields.历史学家卡迪尔詹·阿布耶夫与艺术史学者卡米拉·李，代表校友网络在人文与文化遗产领域的学术力量。