Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan city
Content:
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan city overview
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan coat of arms
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan flag
Almaty city of Kazakhstan (Russian Alma-Ata), formerly (1855-1921) Verny, the ex-capital of the Kazakhstan is situated in the southeastern part of Kazakhstan at the foot of the Zailiski Ala-Tau mountain system at an elevation of 2,300-3,000 feet (700-900 m). Almaatinka rivers emerge into the plain.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan map location
Almaty (Alma-Ata) is called a garden city. The Almaty city has 80 sq.m. of green plantations for each of its million-odd residents.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan - garden city
The word "Almaty" (Alma-Ata) in Kazakh people language means "grown with apple trees". The first Kazakh scholar Chokan Valikhanov observed: "The Almaty city was known for its trade and was a trading post on a high road." Apples were no doubt one of the important commodities. Anyway, Alma-Ata city has been famous for them to this day.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan - Apple monument
Almaty Kazakhstan is located in an area of extensive geologic risk, being subject to both earthquakes and mudslides. Almaty city suffered from severe earthquakes in 1887 and 1911, and a mudflow down the Malaya Almaatinka in 1921 caused considerable destruction and loss of life.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan - Mountains are so close
To reduce risk of future mudslides, an artificial landslide was precipitated by explosives in 1966 to dam nearby Medeo gorge. The 330-foot dam that resulted proved its worth in 1973 by holding back a potentially catastrophic mudslide. Later improvements have raised the dam to 460 feet and further improved the security of Almaty Kazakhstan.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan city population - 1,350,000 (2008 est.).
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan city area - 325 sq.km.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan city phone code - +7-727.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan - Southern part view
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan city history
Almaty city was founded in 1854 when the Russians established the military fortification of Zailiyskoye (renamed Verny in 1855) on the site of the ancient settlement of Almaty, which had been destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan churches
Cossacks, peasant settlers from European Russia, and Tatar merchants soon established themselves in the vicinity, and in 1867 the fortification became the town of Verny and the administrative center of newly created Semirechye province of the governorate general of Turkistan.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan churches
By 1906 the population of Almaty city had grown to 27,000, two-thirds of whom were Russians and Ukrainians. Soviet rule was established in 1918 in Almaty Kazakhstan. In 1921 the city was renamed Alma-Ata, after its Kazakh name, Almaty (literally "Father of Apples"), alluding to the many apple trees in the locality.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan churches
The transfer of the Kazakh capital from Kzyl-Orda to Alma-Ata city in 1929 and the completion of the Turk-Sib Railway in 1930 brought rapid growth. The population of Alma-Ata city rose from 46,000 in 1926 to 221,000 in 1939.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan churches
A number of food and light industry undertakings were built, and heavy industry, particularly machine building, developed later on the basis of plants evacuated from European Russia during World War II in Alma-Ata.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan - green city near the mountains
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan city economy
Almaty city is now a major industrial centre, with the food industry accounting for about one-third of its industrial output, and light industry one-fourth.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan train station #1
There are a number of institutions of higher education in Almaty Kazakhstan, including the Kazakhstan State University (founded 1934), and teacher-training, economics, polytechnic, agricultural, and medical institutes.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan modern architecture
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan city main attractions
Almaty city houses Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences and its many subordinate research institutes, numerous museums, an opera house, theaters producing in Russian, Kazakh and Uighur, and the Pushkin State Public Library.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan views
Almaty city also has a botanical garden, a zoo, several stadiums, and the permanent Kazakhstan Exhibition of Economic Achievements.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan city park train
Almaty city of Kazakhstan now extends about 12.5 miles (20 km) in all directions from its center and is considered one of the most beautiful cities of Kazakhstan, with regular planning, wide, tree-lined streets, numerous parks and orchards, and a backdrop of mountains.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan - Yes, it is still Almaty city!
Mount Kok-Tyubeh offers a picturesque panorama of Almaty city. Far below the residential districts can be seen buried in verdure. At the foot of the mountain to the north stretches a plain, and to the south, just a stone's throw away, so it seems, are snowcapped mountains rising as high as five kilometers.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan - night time
The former Ascension Cathedral of Almaty city, built in 1907 and the second highest wooden building in the world, now houses a museum. Of the population of Almaty city, Russians make up about 60 percent, with the remainder made up chiefly of Kazakh (less than one-quarter), Ukrainian, Uighur, Tatar, and German minorities.
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan views
Almaty Kazakhstan is a major cultural center. Besides the Abai Kazakh Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, which is the pride of national musical culture, Almaty city has a drama theater named after the Kazakh writer Mukhtar Auezov (1897-1961). Almaty city also has a Russian, an Uigur and several Korean theatres and a number of other troupes.
Today in Almaty city there are 16 higher education establishments, including a university, and dozens of general education and technical secondary schools and vocational schools.
Almaty Kazakhstan city useful links
Almaty (Alma-Ata) Kazakhstan - oil money are here
Our partners