The building of the Palace of Culture of metallurgists in Ust-Kamenogorsk was constructed for the opening of the VI World Festival of Youth and Students (1957) in Moscow as a public building for cultural and educational purposes. It was built simultaneously with 3-4 storey apartment houses located along Independence Avenue, Gagarin Boulevard and Gogol Street. The Palace of Culture with the adjoining square and fountain is the dominant feature of this urban complex. Its entire architectural and spatial environment was created in the style of Soviet monumental classicism ("Stalinist architecture") and is the main attraction of the city of that period.
The building of the Palace of Culture is a vivid and already rare representative of an important stage in the development of public architecture in Kazakhstan in the postwar period. The building particularly expresses the style of Soviet monumental classicism so typical for that time, which became a leading direction in architecture, monumental and decorative art of the USSR from the mid-1930s and reached its apogee in the mid-1950s. The structures of the building reflect the latest achievements of construction craftsmanship of the mid-20th century.
The Palace of Culture for metallurgists was built in a short period of time in 1957, and by the time of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow it had already been commissioned. Since then no significant alterations and redevelopments have been carried out on the building and it has been preserved with the highest degree of authenticity.
