| 28 Oct 2026 | Team for the Zhautykov Olympiad chosen Seven pupils of grades 10–12 will travel to Almaty in January for the Zhautykov International Olympiad in mathematics, physics and computer science. |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Physics course for district teachers In February the Lyceum will hold a two-week course for physics teachers of district schools who have no physics degree. Apply through your head of school. |
| 20 Sep 2026 | Boarding house roof finished The new roof of the boarding house is finished before winter, paid by the Lyceum Trust. The class of 1996 gave a third of the cost. |
| 1 Sep 2026 | Welcome, class of 2031! 50 new pupils in grade 8 and 25 in grade 10. Of the new pupils 29 come from district schools and 18 live in the boarding house. |
| 30 Jun 2026 | Graduation Test 2026: first again Our 55 graduates averaged 387 points, the highest in the ISEZ for the third year running (results on e-Irad). |
| 18 Apr 2026 | Entrance test: 412 candidates for 75 places A record number of candidates wrote the entrance test. Results are posted at the Lyceum and in the admission office. |
| 26 Jan 2026 | Zhautykov Olympiad: silver and bronze Bekzat T. won a silver medal in physics and Aiperi K. a bronze in mathematics in Almaty. |
| 11 Mar 2025 | Irad Day concert The Lyceum choir and the physics teachers' band played at the Irad Day concert in the TSU assembly hall. |
| 2 Sep 2024 | New computer room The second computer room has 20 new computers, from the Lyceum Trust and Attelkom. The old ones go to Teskey-Jar and two other village schools. |
| 29 Jun 2024 | Graduation 2024 52 graduates, average 379 in the Graduation Test. 12 graduates won places at universities abroad. |
| 14 Nov 2023 | Lessons from 9:00 in the cold weeks Until the end of February lessons begin at 9:00 and end at 16:10 because of the early darkness and the cold in the main building. |
| 5 Oct 2022 | Our new website The Lyceum has a new website, made by graduates of 2009 and 2014. The news of the old site from 2012 is kept here. |
| 1 Sep 2020 | Back at the Lyceum After the quarantine the Lyceum is open again for all grades. Boarders arrive on 30 August; masks in the corridors. |
| 20 Mar 2020 | Lyceum closed under the quarantine Under Executive Directive 2020/05 the Lyceum is closed from 19 March. Tasks are sent by e-mail and through the class teachers; boarders have gone home. |
| 2 Sep 2019 | 40 years of the Lyceum On 1 September 1979 the first 90 pupils came to the Republican boarding school. 600 graduates came for the anniversary evening. |
| 1 Sep 2016 | New director Dr Ulan Tashtanov, graduate of 1987 and lecturer at TSU, is the new director of the Lyceum. |
| 12 Jun 2015 | Ten years of the Graduation Test Since the first National Graduation Test in 2005 the Lyceum has had the highest average every year but two (2009 and 2011). |
| 15 Oct 2012 | Laboratory wing opened The new wing has laboratories of physics and chemistry and two computer rooms. Thank you to the Lyceum Trust and the graduates in Houston and Boston. |
| 1 Feb 2012 | Old site The Lyceum opened its first page on the Education Network (lyceum1.iradedu.org). |
News before October 2022 was moved from the Lyceum's old page and may have lost its photographs.