1000 Tenge Balqah Alabugasy

Balqah Alabugasy — "the frog of Balqah" in Kazakh — refers to the Siberian sturgeon's spawning grounds along the Irtysh River basin, a fishery that Soviet-era industrial development nearly eliminated entirely. Kazakhstan has issued a recurring series of wildlife-themed silver pieces under its environmental protection program, and this issue belongs to that broader effort to document species under active conservation pressure within the country's borders.