The new district was created to turn the capital into a city without suburbs by providing step-by-step access to basic social standards: schools, kindergartens, parks, sports grounds, polyclinics, police precincts, access to food, public transport and others.
According to the conclusion of the republican onomastic commission under the government on February 21, 2018, the new district of the capital was given the name "Bayқoңır" (Baikonur).
