Our expert answers your question about Kazakhstan

I can't provide any official statistics, but from experience most of people with traditional eight-hour work go to bed around 22-23 o'clock and wake up at 6-7 in the morning.

In 2010, the ethnic composition of Almaty was the following: Kazakhs - 51%, Russians - 33%, Uyghurs - 5%, Koreans - 1.9%, Tatars - 1.8%, Ukrainians - 1.2%, other nations - less than 1%. So there is no any sizeable community of Latinos in Almaty.

In brief, the reason is that anthropologically Kazakhs belong to the South Siberian small race, the transition race between the large Mongoloid and Caucasoid races. More info about the issue. You can translate the page from Russian by using the following service.

I have found the following article that may be useful - experiences and advice of foreigners living in Aktau. You can translate the sites from Russian by using the following service.

Kazakhs are descendants of several tribes: Turkic group (Khazars, Kipchaks, Cumans and others), Mongolic group, Iranic group (Sarmatians, Scythians and others). Kazakhs populated the territory when nomadic groups started to invade the area in the 5th-13th centuries AD. Here is more info about the origin of Kazakhs.

I have found the following article about Kazakhs in the US and Canada. You can use the following service to translate the article from Russian.

I could not find any information about Indians living in Semey or Astana. The list of Semey restaurants that may be useful. This service to translate from Russian.

I think you can try to contact Kazakh student association of Indiana University (kazakh@indiana.edu). Also the following community of Kazakh people in USA may be helpful too.

I could not find official statistics but according to some articles the average height is about 160-165 cm.

According to all Kazakhstan population census of 2009 the urban population of the country is 8,662 millions (54,1%) and the rural population is 7,347 millions (45,9%).

The suffix "-ov" has Russian origin (Petrov, Ivanov, Kuznetsov etc.) and because the countries mentioned were the part of Russian Empire and later USSR the last names with this suffix are widely spread.

The official unemployment rate (August 2010) is 5,9% or 68,700 people.

The situation in the whole is stable, for the last years there are no known civil disturbances on national or political reasons.

According to the latest statistics the population of Kazakhstan is about 16,197,000 (2010).

I think you should contact detective agencies working in Kazakhstan. For example this one. Good luck!

Here we go. Top 10 countries by land area (sq. km.):

• Russia – 17,075,400
• Canada – 9,976,140
• China – 9,598,077
• USA – 9,532,776
• Brazil – 8,511,965
• Australia – 7,687,453
• India – 3,287,590
• Argentina – 2,766,890
• Kazakhstan – 2,723,890
• Sudan – 2,505,810

Dolon village is located about 60 km from the border of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. Dolon village is known to be heavily contaminated by the first USSR atomic bomb test. The current population of Dolon village (7 km radius) is about 500–700 people, no information about land area of that village (pretty small I guess).

Kazakhstan is playing the leading role in expanding the Internet access among the countries of Central Asia. At the end of 2008 about 15% of the population (2,3 millions) had Internet access. Kazakhstan has two state languages Kazakh and Russian so the majority of population knows Russian language. That's why Russian Internet resources are the most popular among Kazakhstan users (e–mail clients, social networks, entertainment sites). As for the largest Kazakhstan made sites they have about 50,000 visits per day and are mainly devoted to entertainment, photo and video hosting, torrents.