Department of Land and Water Management.

History and mission of the department

The Department of Land Management was established in 1991, making it one of the youngest departments within the faculty. In 2018, it was renamed the Department of Land Management and Cadastre and began offering bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in the 620200 field – “Land Management and Cadastre.” In 2024, the department was renamed the Department of Land and Water Management.

Since May 2017, the department has been headed by Associate Professor Aynura Zhaparbekovna Batykova, a candidate of technical sciences. She is the author of over 95 scientific works, holder of 8 patents for inventions in the Kyrgyz Republic, and has been awarded the title of Honored Worker of the Water Industry of the Kyrgyz Republic.

In 2024, as part of the Erasmus+ HWCA project, the department launched a new specialization, “Water Management.” This program aims to address the current needs of the labor market, align with students’ interests, and meet modern educational standards. It focuses on training specialists with in-depth knowledge of water law and resource management, which is especially critical in the face of constant changes in legislation and practice.

The department is staffed by highly qualified professionals, including Professor V.V. Denisov, Candidate of Economic Sciences; Professor V.A. Kopnov, Doctor of Technical Sciences; Professor G.T. Supaeva, Doctor of Economic Sciences; Associate Professors A.S. Sukenbayev and G.A. Shabikova, Candidates of Technical Sciences; Acting Associate Professor A.T. Rasheva, Candidate of Economic Sciences; Senior Lecturers A.K. Jusupova and I.D. Bazarbayeva; GIS specialist Bakhmutov E., and Senior Laboratory Assistant A. Erkinbekova.

The primary mission of the department is to prepare specialists in the fields of land and water resource management, land relations, land cadastre, water management, topography, geodesy, and cartography.

The department’s development is closely tied to the contributions of specialists such as Associate Professor K.Ch. Ismailova, Candidate of Economic Sciences; Professor V.V. Denisov, Candidate of Economic Sciences; Associate Professor N.A. Chimkanayev; and other educators, including N.N. Vandaeva and N.T. Osmonbaev. The first cohort of 29 land management engineers graduated in 1996, including distinction graduates A.S. Abdiev, N.A. Sooronova, E.V. Goncharova, and B.T. Tashtanov, who now hold key positions in government agencies like the State Agency for Land Resources, Cadastre, Geodesy, and Cartography.

Modern information technologies and globalization have transformed approaches to land resource management, leading to the widespread use of applied GIS software. In response, a GIS laboratory was established in 2018, equipped with state-of-the-art technology and software. The laboratory supports data collection, processing, analysis, modeling, and visualization, enabling effective teaching and research.

Since 2017, the department’s faculty has developed and published 7 textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, as well as 2 monographs. These publications cover topics such as land management, land relations regulation, land reclamation, and water systems.

In 2023, as part of the Erasmus+ HWCA project, the department established a Water Management Laboratory aimed at enhancing resilience to climate change and ensuring water resource security in Central Asia.

The department offers dual-degree programs in partnership with the S. Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University in Astana, Kazakhstan.

The department also actively collaborates with the State University of Land Management (GUZ) in Moscow. A cooperation agreement was signed in 2002 and has been regularly extended. KNAU is an associate member of the Council for the “Land Management and Cadastre” discipline. The department head, A.Zh. Batykova, and Professor V.V. Denisov contribute to the development of academic and methodological documents and participate in GUZ academic council meetings.

In 2025, as part of the optimization of the structure of the university, the department “Geodesy and cartography” was reorganized by joining the department “Land and water management”.

Directions and profiles / programs

Geodesy and Remote Sensing

Profile: “Geodesy and Remote Sensing” – Graduates majoring in “Geodesy and Remote Sensing” are qualified specialists capable of working in design and research institutes engaged in topographic, geodetic, and cartographic activities, as well as in organizations involved in natural resource monitoring, Earth remote sensing, and geoinformation technologies.
Specialists of this profile are able to perform geodetic and cartographic surveys, analyze satellite data, develop digital maps and terrain models, and apply modern remote sensing methods to solve scientific and practical tasks.

Jurisprudence

Profile: “Land and Agrarian Law”– Graduates majoring in “Land and Agrarian Law” are specialists with in-depth knowledge in the field of legal regulation of land and agrarian relations. They are trained to work in state and municipal bodies responsible for the management and use of land resources, in judicial and law enforcement institutions, in legal departments of agricultural enterprises, as well as in research and educational institutions.

Specialists of this profile are capable of professionally drafting and analyzing regulatory legal acts, resolving land disputes, ensuring legal protection of the rights and interests of landowners and land users, and providing consultations on land, water, environmental, and agrarian legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

"LAND MANAGEMENT AND CADASTRES"

Profile: Land management– Graduates majoring in Land Management are versatile specialists prepared to work in the State Agency for Land Resources, Cadastre, Geodesy and Cartography under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic, the State Design Institute for Land Management “Kyrgyzgiprozem”, as well as in organizations engaged in economic and legal activities in the field of land management and regulation of land relations.

Profile: Land Cadastre – Graduates of the Land Cadastre program specialize in land and real estate valuation. Their work includes legal registration of land use, land accounting and valuation, state oversight of land use and protection, and land monitoring.

Graduates can work in the State Agency for Land Resources, Cadastre, Geodesy, and Cartography under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic, the State Register under the State Registration Service, local governments (city halls, aiyl aimaks), architecture and urban planning departments, real estate firms, land and real estate appraisal agencies, construction companies, banks, and other agencies.

Profile: Geodetic support in land management– Bachelor’s degrees in Geodetic Support for Land Management are designed for professional work in the field of ground-based surveying, remote sensing, and computer processing of these materials, followed by presentation of the information in electronic and traditional formats. They also conduct topographic surveys and compile and publish maps and atlases for various purposes.

Graduates can work at the State Institution for Geodesy and Cartography, the State Agency for Land Resources, Cadastre, Geodesy, and Cartography under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic, the State Register under the State Registration Service, local governments (city halls, aiyl aimaks), private design and survey firms, construction organizations (housing, civil, and road construction), architecture and construction departments, and others.

Profile: Water Resources Management – The goal of the Master’s program in Water Resources Management is to train highly qualified specialists with a systematic understanding of modern principles of sustainable water resources management, capable of developing and implementing innovative solutions in the water sector. The program is aimed at developing in-depth theoretical knowledge and practical skills in water use planning, monitoring, and evaluation, taking into account climate change, social sustainability, and the national sustainable development priorities of the Kyrgyz Republic.

The composition of the department

Batykova Ainura Zhaparbekovna

Head of the Department of Land Management and Cadastres, candidate of technical sciences, docent

aj.batykova@gmail.com

Denisov Vitaly Viktorovich

Professor of the Department of Land Management and Cadastres, candidate of economics sciences
denisov49@list.ru

Vitaly Anatolyevich Kopnov

Professor

Sultanaliyeva Tursunbubu

Candidate of Technical Sciences

Shabikova Gulmira Askarovna

docent of the Department of Land Management and Cadastres, candidate of technical sciences
sh. gulmira66 @gmail.com

Sukenbaev Аidar Satybaldievich

docent of the Department of Land Management and Cadastres, candidate of technical sciences
aidar61@bk.ru

Zhusupova Aizhamal Kamalovna

Senior lecturer at the Department of Land Management and Cadastres, master of Land Management and Cadastres
aijamaljusupova76 @mail.ru

Rasheva Ainura Talapaevna

Senior lecturer at the Department of Land Management and Cadastres, master of Land Management and Cadastres
aika_akbar@mail.ru

Bazarbayeva Indira Daiyrbekovna

Senior lecturer at the Department of Land Management and Cadastres, master of Land Management and Cadastres
bazarbaeva.indira @mail.ru

Borovskaya Natalia Nikolaevna

Senior lecturer

Mamyralieva Venera Tologonovna

Senior lecturer

Konurbaeva Gulzat Ularbekovna

Senior Lecturer

Zhumabekova Aigerim Zhumabekovna

Аssistant

Amangelieva Bermet Ulanovna

Laboratory assistant

Personal information: Nationality: Marital status: Residence address:	Denisov Vitaliy Date of birth: 29.12.1949. Frunze (Bishkek). Russian Not married Bishkek, 64 Karalayev str., apt. 154
Education:	1977. Higher. Moscow Institute of Land Management Engineers (now the State University for Land Management). Specialty: land management. Diploma – “engineer land management”. 1987. PhD in Economics. Diploma. Decision of the Council of the Moscow Institute of Land Management Engineers.
Work experience:	Total work experience 54 of them pedagogical 35 years.
Professional experience:	1987-1994. Senior Lecturer, Acting Associate Professor of the Department of Land Management of the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation Engineers and Agricultural Mechanization. 1994 – present Associate Professor, Acting Professor, Professor of the Department of Land Management and Cadastre. 1998. Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Hydroreclamation and Land Management. 1999-2000. Head of the Department of Land Management and Geodesy. 2000 – 2002. Dean of the Faculty of Hydroreclamation and Land Management. 2002 -2005. Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the Kyrgyz Agrarian University named after K.I. Scriabin. 1996. Academic title of Associate Professor. Diploma. Decision of the Supreme Attestation Commission of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2015. Title of Honorary Professor of the State University for Land Management. Certificate. Decision of the Academic Council of the State University for Land Management (Moscow). 2017. Academic title of professor. Diploma. Decision of the Supreme Attestation Commission of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Scientific and methodological work:	2002-2014. Scientific supervisor of a number of state budget scientific topics. 2013. Prepared a candidate of economic sciences. 1998 to the present time the head of scientific work of graduate students and undergraduates. 2009. Co-author S.N. Volkov in the edition of the 9th volume of the textbook “Land management. Regional land management” (section Land management in areas with predominantly irrigated agriculture). 2009. Textbook “Land management in the conditions of irrigated agriculture”. (Co-authors Ismailova K.Ch., Osmonova A.S.). 2010. For the first time in the Kyrgyz Republic, the textbook “Land management in the Kyrgyz Republic” (co-author S.N. Volkov). 2014. Second supplemented and revised edition of the textbook “Land Management in the Kyrgyz Republic”. (Co-author S.N. Volkov). 2015. Textbook “Fundamentals of land management”. (Co-authors S.N. Volkov, K.Ch. Ismailova, A.Zh. Batykova). 2017. Textbook “Regulation of land relations”. (Co-authors S.N. Volkov, A.Zh. Batykova, K.Ch. Ismailova). 2019. Collective monograph. Features of the use of land resources in the conditions of the piedmont-plain geomorphological complex. Geoinformation technologies in monitoring and use of land resources. 2019. Textbook “Land reclamation of the Kyrgyz Republic”. (Co-authors S.B. Andrusevich, E.E. Drugaleva, A.Zh. Batykova). In the press. 2019. For the first time in the republic, a textbook on land management in the state language “Jerge zhaigashtyruunun negizderi”. (Co-authors S.N. Volkov, K.Ch. Ismailova, A.Zh. Batykova). 2002. to the present, member of the Educational and Methodological Council in the field of “Land management and cadastres” at the State University for Land Management. Member of the section of the educational and methodological association in the direction of “Land management and cadastres” of the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University. K.I. Scriabin. 1998. Member of the expert working group on the development of a package of laws on land (Land Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, etc.). Decree of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2001. Member of the working commission for the development of draft laws of the Kyrgyz Republic “On land cadastre and land management”, “On land valuation”, “On land lease”. Order of the Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2003. Member of the working group to develop the Concept of the Agrarian Policy of the Kyrgyz Republic until 2010 and the Concept of the Land Policy of the Kyrgyz Republic until 2010. Order of the Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2019. Member of the expert group on amendments and additions to the current Land Code of the Kyrgyz Republic. Order of the Minister of Justice of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2006. Member of the biographical collection “Elite of Kyrgyzstan”. 2019. Member of the biographical directory “Professors and Doctors of Science in the field of land management and land cadastre”. Series “Scientific, Pedagogical and Cultural Heritage”. 1984-2019. Published 120 scientific and methodical works.
Training:	2006. Moscow. State University for Land Management. Short-term professional development. Improving the content and quality of training of specialists in land management and cadastres. 23.11.-2.12. 2006 Certificate of advanced training. 2010. Moscow. State University for Land Management. Short-term professional development. Design and implementation of the main educational programs of the university in the direction 120700 – Land management and cadastres during the transition to the system of federal educational standards. 14.05.-29.05.12. 2010 Certificate of advanced training. 2016. Moscow. State University for Land Management. Short-term professional development. Status and prospects for the development of land management and cadastres in the Russian Federation. 23.05-27.05. 2016 Certificate of advanced training. 2019. Moscow. State University for Land Management. International scientific and practical conference “Trends in the development of the institute of land management as a tool for the implementation of land policy and their legislative consolidation: domestic and foreign experience of the XX-XXI centuries.” 31.05. 2019 Conference participant certificate.
Awards:	1970. Medal. On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the medal “For military valor”. 1999. Honorary diploma of the Kyrgyz Agrarian Academy. 2002. Certificate of Honor from the State Agency for Registration of Rights to Real Estate under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2003. Honorary diploma of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2003. Honorary diploma of the Kyrgyz Agrarian University named after. K.I. Scriabin. 2004. Diploma of the City Hall of Bishkek. 2005. Honorary diploma of the Kyrgyz Agrarian University named after. K.I. Scriabin. 2009. Diploma of the Kyrgyz State Design Institute for Land Management “Kyrgyzgiprozem”. 2009. Honorary diploma of the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University named after. K.I. Scriabin. 2010. Honorary diploma of the Agrotechnical College of the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University named after. K.I. Scriabin. 2011. Diploma of the State Registration Service under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2005. Badge “Excellence in Education of the Kyrgyz Republic” 2010. Badge “Excellent student of the State Register of the Kyrgyz Republic”. Certificate. 2018. Badge “Excellent worker of the State Registration Service under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic”. Certificate. 2009. Honorary badge of the State University for Land Management “For the development of land management education.” Certificate. 2011. Silver badge of honor of the State University for Land Management. Certificate. 2014. Honorary badge of the State University for Land Management “For Merit to the University”. Certificate. 2015. Golden honorary academic badge of the State University for Land Management. Certificate. 2019. Breast medal “240 years of the State University for Land Management”. Certificate.
Skills:	Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Internet Explorer.
Language:	Russian

FULL NAME DATE OF BIRTH MARITAL STATUS ADDRESS	Shabikova Gulmira Askarovna 05.06.1966 Widow, I have three children Bishkek, 45B Masalieva str., kv 15
EDUCATION	Higher education, in 1983 she graduated from the Przheval Pedagogical Institute with a degree in geography with an additional specialty biology. Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor.
WORK EXPERIENCE	General pedagogical 33 years
WORK EXPERIENCE	From 17.08.1988 to 30.03.1990 .- biology teacher of secondary school No. 1 of Kara – Balta; From 05.06.1990 to 19.08.1996 – geography teacher of K. Marx Secondary school of Kara – Koo, Tonsky district; From 01.09.1996 to 30.03.1998 – biology teacher of secondary school AGES- 5 of Alamudun district; From 30.03.1998 to 10.12.1998 – leading specialist of Alamudun district Department of Education; From 10.12.1998 to 26.08.2002 – Director of the secondary school AGES – 5 of the Alamudun district; From 26.08.2002 to 25.08.2004 – leading specialist of the Alamudun Department of Education; From 25.08.2004 to 30.08.2012 – Director of Lebedinovskaya secondary school No. 3; From 01.09.2012 to 21.08.2014 – senior laboratory assistant of the Department of “ZCHS”, KRSU; From 01.09.2012 to 30.05.2014 – graduate student KRSU in the direction 05.20.00 “Safety of human activity”, profile “Safety in emergency situations” (correspondence form of training); From 21.08.2014 to 01.09.2017 – leading specialist of the educational and scientific laboratory “Mountain ecosystems” of the Department of “ZCHS”; From 01.09.2017 to 01.09.2018 – senior lecturer of the Department of “ZCHS”; From 01.09.2018 to the present – Associate professor of the Department of “ZCHS”.
KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES	Kyrgyz, Russian, English with dictionary
PERSONAL QUALITIES	Responsibility, sociability, ability to work in a team.

Date of birth	25th March 1961, Sary-Bulak village, Jaiyl district, Chui regions
Education	1979-1982 – Kyrgyz State University, Faculty of Physics 1982-1985 – Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, engineer-physicist 2006 – 2009 – Kyrgyz State Law Academy under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, jurisprudence
Experience	State Institution “Cadastre” under the Land Resources Service under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Kyrgyz Republic From October 15, 2019 to the present – Chief Specialist of the Land Cadastre and Registration Department Geoinformation System Center under the Department under the State Registration Service From 2009 to October 15, 2019 – chief specialist in real estate market analysis Project Implementation Unit Department of the State Register of the Kyrgyz Republic From 2007-2013 – regional coordinator for monitoring and evaluating the activities of local registration offices, real estate market analyst. State Register Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic 24.08.2005 – 2007 – head real estate registration department State Property Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic 1996-2005 – chief expert of the mass privatization group, Deputy Head of the Department of Development and Privatization of Fuel and Energy Complex Facilities Kyrgyz Stock Exchange 1996 – August 1996 – Listing Department Specialist Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic 1990 -1994 research assistant, Laboratory of Atomic Spectroscopy Kyrgyz State University 1987 – 1990 – postgraduate student of the Department of Experimental Physics and Plasma Physics, Faculty of Physics Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences 1985 – 1987 – Senior Engineer of the Laboratory of Atomic Spectroscopy Moscow Engineering Physics Institute 1982 – 1985 – student Kyrgyz State University 1979 – 1982 – student 1978 – 1979 – laboratory assistant of the laboratory of solid state physics of the Faculty of Physics
Technical skills	Working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Lotus, Power Point, Access programs
Scientific works	Published 20 scientific papers, including 3 inventor’s certificates
Knowledge of the language	Kyrgyz – native, Russian – excellent, English – good
Science degree	PhD

Personal information: Nationality: Marital status: Residence address:	Ainura Rasheva Date of birth: 17.08.1978. Kyrgyz Not married, has a son. Bishkek, st. Abay 2/3, apt. 38.
Education:	1999. Bachelor degree with honors. Kyrgyz Agrarian Academy, Faculty “Hydromelioration and Land Management”, specialty “Land Management”. 2000. Diploma “engineer land management” with honors. Kyrgyz Agrarian Academy, Faculty “Hydromelioration and Land Management”, specialty “Land Management” 2018. Master’s degree in Land Management and Cadastre, with honors.
Work experience:	General pedagogical 22 years
Professional experience:	1999-2001. Senior Laboratory Assistant of the Department of Land Management and Geodesy. 2001. Assistant of the Department of Land Management and Geodesy. 2002-2019. Senior Lecturer at the Department o “Land management and cadastres”.
Scientific and methodological work:	2014. I approved the topic of the thesis for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences “Agricultural Land Management on the basis of land cadastre information support (on the example of Issyk-Kul oblast of the Kyrgyz Republic”). 2011-2013. I was a junior researcher of the project “Integrated land-water management in the northern part of the Issyk-Kul region” 2021. Researcher of the project “Integrated management of land and water resources at the administrative-territorial and basin level in the Chui region using GIS technologies.” -More than 25 articles have been published, of which 21 are scientific articles in the Russian Science Citation Index; they are published in international and republican journals. More than 20 educational and methodological guidelines have been issued for the implementation of term papers, practical and control work classes in the direction of “Land management and cadastres -Collective monograph. Features of the use of land resources in the conditions of the piedmont-plain geomorphological complex. Geoinformation technologies in the monitoring and use of land resources:
Educational work:	2006-2011 she was the chairman of the Youth Committee of the KAU. K.I. Skryabina, until 2008 was a member of the Council of Young Scientists of KAU and the Kyrgyz Republic, and also until 2011 a member of the Council of KNAU, I am the curator of groups.
Training:	2001. Passed computer courses, I own a computer at a professional level (Word, MS Excel). 2002г. July-August had an internship in Gosregister, received a certificate “Cadastral Topographer”. The experience gained is used during the training 2003. Advanced training courses “On the theory of pedagogy and psychology” in the Kyrgyz Academy of Education, received a certificate. 2006г. Passed training courses on “Introduction of GIS”, received a certificate. 2007. Passed training courses on “Preventing AIDS” in the KSMA has a certificate. 2010. Participated in the international seminar “Development of an Integrated Financial Strategy for Sustainable Development of Land Resources” received a certificate. 2017. I took part in the II International Scientific and Practical Conference on the theme “The Role of Soil Science for Sustainable Development of Agriculture and Ecology” Certificate. 2018. Training “Review of regulatory legal acts of the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of water resources use”. Certificate. 2019. Refresher course on the development of educational standards based on competencies. Certificate. 2019. Training “Theory and methods of testing in the educational process.” Certificate. 2020. Accreditation of educational programs. Certificate 2020. GIS training SuperMap iDesktop. Certificate. 2020. Attendee of the “Carbon Benefits Project” Webinar. Certificate 2021. Improving pedagogical skills in online learning. Certificate. 2022. Refresher courses “On the theory of pedagogy and psychology”. Certificate. 2022. “Formation and evaluation of reading literacy competencies”. Certificate. There are more than 30 certificates for the advanced training course.
Awards:	· Honorary Diploma of KAU im. K.I. Scriabin. 2006. · Honorary Diploma of the Youth Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic.2008. · Honorary Diploma of the Department of Cadastre and Registration of Rights to Real Estate under the State Registration Service.2011. · Diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic 2011. · Breastplate “Excellence in Gosregister” from the Department of Cadastre and Registration of Rights to Real Estate under the State Registration Service.2013. · Honorary Diploma of the Land Resources Service under the Ministry of Agriculture.2022.
Skills:	Working on a computer: Windows 10, MS Office 13, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Internet Explorer, owns GIS programs IDecstop10i, AutoCAD. (there are certificates).
Language:	Kyrgyz, Russian, English with dictionary