500 Tenge 100th Anniversary of Kazakhstan Railroads

Kazakhstan's rail network traces directly to Tsarist-era construction, with the critical Turkestan-Siberia line — the "Turksib" — completed under Soviet direction in 1930 after years of contested planning and brutal labor conditions. By the centennial being marked here, the network had absorbed the administrative chaos of post-Soviet independence and was reorganized under KazakhstanTemir Zholy, the national rail operator established in 1997.

KM#118 is part of a broader commemorative silver program the National Bank ran aggressively through the early 2000s, producing themed issues in relatively small quantities for collector markets rather than circulation.