Здание акимата Западно-Казахстанской области, Administrative building in Uralsk, Kazakhstan.

The West Kazakhstan Region administration building is a neoclassical structure with three floors, including a semi-basement level, and features a P-shaped layout. The design displays typical elements of this architectural style with its symmetrical arrangement and formal proportions.

The building was constructed between 1904 and 1905 as the Uralsk branch of the Russian Trade and Industrial Commercial Bank and was originally designed for banking purposes. It later transitioned into a regional administrative center as the city's needs and governance structures changed.

The facade once carried two Cossack figures by local artist N.G. Kalentyev: one an ushkuynik, an early settler on the Yaik, the other a contemporary catching fish with a bagren, the traditional hook method. Removed after 1917 and lost, they were replaced by a worker and kolkhoz woman, later also taken down. Two lions by Kalentyev guard the entrance, their paws now resting on empty shields.

The building stands on the former Turkestan Square, where the bank branch opened on 1 October 1894 in the Vladimir merchant mansion before the present structure was raised. The main facade faces the square with its portico, two Corinthian columns and triangular pediment; the sculpted Cossack pedestals are now covered by protective canopies. The lions returned to their semicircular niches at the entrance but without the old coats of arms.

The two Cossack figures on the facade were made by the Ural artist and amateur sculptor N. G. Kalentyev, who also made the two lions at the main entrance. After 1917 the Cossacks were removed and lost, replaced by a worker and a kolkhoz woman; the lions survived and returned to their niches without the old coats of arms, so their paws now rest on nothing.