Geomechanical Processes and Their Assessment in the Rock Massifs in Central Kazakhstan

Khaini-Kamal Kasymkhanova is a Professor and head of the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Mining Surveying from the Satpayev Kazakh National Technical University (formerly the Polytechnic Institute. V. I. Lenin). In 2009, she was received her Doctor of Technical Sciences degree from Karagandy State Technical University. From 1981 to 1997 she worked as a mining engineer surveyor at Balkhash Mining and Metallurgical Combine; and from 2002 to 2012 she was assistant, senior lecturer, Associate Professor and head of department at the Satpayev Kazakh National Technical University. 

Her research interests include problems related to geodesy, cartography, surveying, geomechanics, geophysics, geoinformatics and geology.

Gulnar Jangulova is a Doctor of Technical Sciences and an Associated Professor at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. She holds a Bachelor's degreein Mining Surveying from Satpayev Kazakh National Technical University (formerly the Polytechnic Institute. V. I. Lenin). She has held various positions, including leading engineer at the Laboratory of Mining Pressure at the D. A. Kunaev Institute of Mining and researcher at the Laboratory of Mountain Pressure at the same institute. From 1986 to 1994 she was a mountain engineer  mine surveyor at IPK «Irtysh», and from 2001 to 2012 senior researcher at the Institute of Mining.

Her research interests include problems of geodesy, cartography, surveying, geomechanics, geophysics, geoinformatics and geology.

Gulnura Issanova holds a doctorate degree in Natural Sciences and is an Associate Professor at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, scientist and researcher at U.U. Uspanov Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry and a scientific secretary at the Research Centre of Ecology and Environment of Central Asia, Almaty,