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Almaty
Almost 150 years have passed since Almaty's first settlements were founded. Over these decades, many joyful and sad pages have been leafed in the fate of the city and in the lives of its dwellers, there happened a lot of political, social, and economic changes. It is our civic duty to presezrve Almaty's heritage, to reconstruct the portrait of the city against a historical background, and to pass down the monuments of the epoch in events, faces, and buildings to new generations ... |
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Almaty Region
Zhetysu is a beautiful land. It derives its strength from set of the rivers originating at fastigiums of unique mountains: thousand streamlets, as if pearl necklaces, merging in a uniform stream, change our ground into a perfect oasis ... |
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Astana
Astana is the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since 1997 December 10 it was named Akmola, and since 1998 May 6 it was renamed in Astana (till 1961 Akmolinsk, then Selinograd). Astana is an important industry and cultural center of the republic, also railway and auto transport junction. In 1824 it was founded as the military locality, in 1868 it had got the status of the town, and in 50-s of 20th century it was an important center of development of virgin and disused lands in the north of the country ... |
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Baikonur cosmodrome
It was on February 12, 1955 that the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Council of Ministers of the USSR by joint decision ratified the creation of a research center for rocket engineering and testing. The location of the cosmodrome was of prime strategic importance and after much consideration, the ideal spot was found in the vast steppes of Kazakhstan, Baykonur ... |
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Borovoe
The Borovoye lake is the beauty and pride of this a area featuring a variety of sanitariums, camping sites and resort with crowded shores and all attributes of resort life: restaurants, beaches, stores and dancing halls. Across the small mountainous isthmus you can get from the Borovoye lake to the Bolshoe Chebach lake. It is perfect for the lovers of unhurried and "wild" rest who prefer camping and twosome contact with nature ... |
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Taldykorgan
On 22 September 2001 the capital of Almaty region was transferred to Taldykorgan city, and this date really became the beginning of a revival of the city.
Today building up of Taldykorgan city is conducted with rapid strides. It is transfigured every day, as people say, big "euro repair" is conducted in the city. The city as if gets new respiration ... |
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Taraz
The town of Taraz (Talas) ("City of Merchants") is more than 2000 years old. It reached its zenith in the 10-12th centuries, when it was famous as the capital of the Karakhan State. You can step into the past at the Karakhan and Dautbek Mausoleums, ruler's castles and many ancient burial places ... |
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Turkestan
Turkestan (Yassy) was regarded as the spiritual and political center of the Turkic-speaking people and was the origin capital of the Kazakh khans. Turkestan is 1500 years old. Sheikh Hodja Akhmet Yassaui a Sufi mystic, poet and philosopher was the spiritual leader of the Turk people. The Hodja Akhmet Yassaui Mausoleum is an unsurpassed masterpiece of the medieval architecture and amazing complex of palaces and temples ... |
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