Land allotment and the land management project in Kazakhstan

Land allotment in Kazakhstan is not “receive an act and start building”. It is the authorized body’s decision to grant land from state ownership. The land management project is the next mandatory document: without it the boundaries never enter the Unified State Cadastre of Real Estate (EGKN), there is no identification document, and the right cannot be registered. A land commission opinion by itself does not put the plot on the cadastral map.

This guide is for clients in Aktau and Mangystau Region: when you need both steps, how allotment differs from subdividing a plot you already own, and where not to duplicate the existing stages, timelines and documents pieces. We run the full cycle on the land management and cadastre service page.

Allotment, project and boundary establishment are three different things

Term	What it is	When it is needed
Land allotment	Grant of land from state ownership (Art. 43 of the Land Code of RK)	A new plot for construction, utilities, subsurface use or public needs
Land management project	The approved technical document: graphics, coordinates, explanatory note	Always after a positive commission opinion on a new plot; also for subdivision, merger or boundary change
Establishment / restoration of boundaries	Geodetic setting-out of already registered boundaries	A deal, a neighbour dispute, lost markers — not a substitute for allotment

Confusing “allotment = cadastral survey” is expensive: the client collects the wrong pack, the crew mobilises without a commission opinion, the project is returned. If the plot is already yours, you do not need allotment — that is regularisation of an existing right.

When you need both allotment and a land management project

Both steps are mandatory if the plot does not yet exist as a cadastral object:

• construction outside already titled land use;
• a pad or strip for utility networks;
• allotment for subsurface use (well pad, field facility, quarry);
• grant via the cadastre / cadastral map when a vacant contour of state land is selected.

You do not need both if you subdivide or merge your own plots, clarify boundaries or restore markers. There the basis is the title document, not a selection act.

How the commission, the project and the cadastre connect

A short chain, without repeating the seven stages:

1. Preliminary selection. Application to the akimat / via the cadastre. The location in the selection act cannot be changed.
2. Land commission. A positive opinion is permission to start the project, not a cadastral number.
3. Land management project. Field inspection, coordinate catalogue, scheme, explanatory note, neighbour agreements. Technical-part contents — in the documents checklist.
4. Expert review and approval. Without an approved project the cadastre does not create the plot.
5. Cadastral registration and title. After that the plot appears on the public cadastral map and can be disposed of.

Stage durations and what stretches them — in how long a land management project takes. GeoProGlobal’s service range: 14–45 business days for the project plus the authority queue; boundary establishment 1–3 days.

Allotment types that get mixed up in Mangystau

For construction. Commission + project + cadastre, then the architectural planning assignment (APZ) and a building permit / start-of-works notice. Topo for the land project and topo for APZ are different deliverables: the first describes the plot being formed, the second the site situation and utilities for architecture.

For subsurface use. The pack adds a licence or subsoil contract (Art. 32 of the Land Code, Art. 20 of the Subsoil Code). Industrial category land in Mangystau almost always brings sanitary and protection zones.

Right-of-way for a linear facility. A pipeline, power line or road crosses other people’s land. This is not “one rectangle” but a corridor plus easements. Cadastral specifics — in cadastre for oil and gas.

Via the cadastre. A digital filing does not cancel the project. The map shows a vacant contour; boundaries “on the ground” are confirmed by survey.

What most often breaks allotment in Aktau

• A commission opinion exists but the selection act with a boundary scheme does not — or the reverse.
• The client asks to “just draw the allotment” from a cadastral-map screenshot, without field inspection of neighbours.
• A linear facility is filed as a compact plot — expert review returns the project.
• Aktau’s local coordinate system is not reconciled with SK-42 / cadastre parameters: the area on paper diverges from the reconciliation act (annexes 14–15 to Rules No. 180).
• No contract copy for subsurface use; no urban-planning justification for construction in a settlement.

Base geography and typical industrial allotments — on the Aktau and Mangystau Region page.

What to order from a contractor

Say at the start whether this is a new allotment or regularisation of your own plot. That decides the pack and the approval route. GeoProGlobal runs land management and cadastral works from application to identification document: field survey, project, support through approval and cadastral filing.

Send the acts and commission opinion you have through the quote request — within one business day we will say what is missing and which work type you actually have.