Kirill Belotserkovskiy, alpinist

Hi, I’m Kirill.

I work as a rock and alpine guide at Tuyuk-Su (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Alpine routes, rock climbing, glacier walks—you call it. As a guide, I aim to show my guests the best routes in the safest way. Contact me at kirill@steelinside.com or via Telegram.

Some reading for you

Russian articles are many, English articles are few ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Western Kokshaal-Too: Alpinist, Korolyova and other climbs

In August 2021, Ivan Temerev and Alexey Tyulyupo from Tomsk and I climbed several routes in Western Kokshaal-Too. The biggest — Korolyova (5816) via a couloir on the north face and west ridge. The most beautiful (afraid to say that, but it seems like it’s the most appealing mountain I’ve…

Traverse of Tuyuk-Su range

In 2021 from September 14 to 16 I traversed most of the summits surrounding upper Maloy Almatinskoye gorge. During three days I traveled 27,3 km, gained 3742 vertical meters, and then dropped them down. And was pretty happy along the way.

Ice Climbing in Turkey

In January of 2020, I participate in Emre Ozbay memorial Ice Climbing Festival in Erzurum in the East of Turkey. The waterfalls were many, Ice conditions were excellent, while the air wasn’t cold. Actually, it was possible to climb rocks (lots of them) in climbing shoes on sunny faces.

Bektau-Ata: hundreds of boulders and dozens of cracks in the middle of Kazakhstan

At the end of September 2020 Olga Belotserkovskaya, Valera Alekseev, Zhora Berezikov, Pavel Gryaznov, Camille London and I made a trip to a place called Bektau-Ata in Central Kazakhstan. It’s a granite massif 70 km to the north of Lake Balkhash, one of the largest lakes in Asia. Dozens and dozens…

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Also I draw and write things

Tuyuk-Su map—detailed scheme of my home area.

Climbing at Bektau-Ata
Makeshift guidebook to rural and mostly unexplored in terms of climbing place in Central Kazakhstan. There are huge potential in bouldering and not as huge, but still big—in trad

Topos of routes on Bastions in Tuyuk-Su area

Multi-pitch routes at Tuyuk-Su area
They are climbable from May to October. Grades start at 6a and goes up to 8-ish project.

Tamgaly Tas guidebook
Tamgaly Tas is a rock climbing area 120 km to the north from Almaty. Every year I bolt new routes there. Now there are about 100 routes—sport, trad and multi-pitch—graded up to 8a.

I’m on Facebook and Instagram

Please don’t send messages on Instagram. But if you want some pictures from Kazakh flatlands and deserts, here they are: