Kazakh food store opens in Moscow

A Kazakh food store in Moscow (Kazakh Embassy photo)

MOSCOW (TCA) — On May 3, with the support from Kazakhstan’s Embassy and Trade Representative Office in Russia, a store of Kazakhstan’s food products opened in downtown Moscow. It is a fifth outlet of the Baursak retail chain, the Kazakh Embassy said.   

The opening ceremony was attended by representatives of the Embassy and Trade Representative Office, Kazakh diaspora in Moscow, and Kazakh students of Moscow universities.

“I am a native of Kazakhstan. I have lived in Moscow for 20 years now and have always had nostalgia for food products I used to eat in my home country,” said Elena Kondakova, the founder of the Baursak retail chain. “I brought food to Moscow from my each trip to Kazakhstan. Then an idea appeared to start selling Kazakh food products in the Russian capital. And we started opening our stores.”

In her words, the demand for Kazakh food products is growing every year. The stores sell products from Kazakhstan only. The retail chain’s annual turnover is around 50 million rubles, and it plans to open new stores in Russia.        

“The Kazakh Embassy and Trade Representative Office have been actively working on the promotion of Kazakh products in the Russian market,” said Gulzhan Bodukova, deputy Trade Representative of Kazakhstan in Russia. “Our products enjoy demand. There is a very good dynamics of demand and sales volumes. I wish Kazakh entrepreneurs to use the current opportunity to enter the Russian market, and the Trade Representative Office stands ready to assist them.”     

Sergey Kwan

TCA

Sergey Kwan has worked for The Times of Central Asia as a journalist, translator and editor since its foundation in March 1999. Prior to this, from 1996-1997, he worked as a translator at The Kyrgyzstan Chronicle, and from 1997-1999, as a translator at The Central Asian Post.
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Kwan studied at the Bishkek Polytechnic Institute from 1990-1994, before completing his training in print journalism in Denmark.

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