Jezkazgan is in a river basin a Kara-kengir, in the centre of Kazakhstan. The city has been based in 1954, from settlement the Big Dzhezkazgan has been transformed to a city. The city name in a free translation from the Kazakh language means «a place where dug copper». Basis of the industry of Zhezkazgan is copper metallurgy. In a city one of the most powerful copper industrial complexes operates. Round a city, in foothills Ulytau, the richest deposits of copper rich with impurity rare and precious metals are developed: gold, silver, bismuth, zinc, molybdenum and others.

In Zhezkazgan also there is a railway station, road service station and the airport accepting regional passenger and cargo flights, and since November, 2008 the Zhezkazgansky airport is opened for performance of the international flights.

The main sights of Zhezkazgan are located outside of city line. In city vicinities there are some mausoleums of the Mongolian and Kazakh khans of the Middle Ages and new time, including the mausoleum of the Dzhuchi-khan and Zhuzden. In the city picturesque buildings of 40-s and 50-s years as theatre Kozhamkulov or the main building of corporation "Kazahmys" draw attention of tourists.

Special attention necessary to give to parkway of Saken Sejfullin (the former parkway of Cosmonauts), stello "Space" and a panel with Jury Gagarins image in parkway and also to a monument «Aircraft and astronautics». Among other monuments the monument to Metallurgists, a monument to Victims from Stalin reprisals and a monument of Abylay Khan are worthy your attention K.I.Satpaevas statue on the areas of Metallurgists, a monument of Pervostroitel on the area with the same name, a monument the victim in the Great Patriotic War in park «30 years of the Victory».

Zhezkazgan — very pure city. Every Thursday and Saturday inhabitants clean streets and parks. Visitors of Zhezkazgan can feel atmosphere of east market in the city markets — "Central", "Sharua", "Merej" and "Tursynay".

Many tourists are involved with the unique nature of the mountains Ulytau which slopes tower to the north from Zhezkazgan. The landscape of Ulytau is extremely various: here is and the meadows covered with colours, both birchwoods, and mountain small rivers and lakes, and near to it seeming "Martian" the deserted landscapes occupied by venomous snakes and scorpions. Thanks to what here in XV century Zhanibek and the Girey have based the Kazakh Khanate, Ulytau by right is considered «the sacred earth», «a cradle of the Kazakh culture». It is often possible to find ancient burial grounds In this district "stone images" — monuments to ancestors.