Qymyzmūryndyq – figuratively, the holiday of the first Kumys, sacred to all nomads drink. «Kumys in traditional culture has long been considered a bloodless sacrifice, symbolising white grace, libation to the sky, four sides of the world, mountains, a battle banner», – writes scientists Z. K. Suraganov and K. K. Sarsembin. It is celebrated all over Eurasia with different name variants: Buryats call it «tsegeyeny zugaa», Bashkirs – «mystar», and Kazakhs of Mongolia – «bie bailar». But everywhere it is associated with the beginning of the spring-summer season and a symbolically favourable time in the life of nomads. Even the name of the rite «qymyzmūryndyq « in translation from Kazakh means «sticking/dipping nose in kumys». The semantics of the white kumys is to emphasise the sacrality of the festival. a