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Almaty (Алматы, Almaty; Алматы), formerly known as Alma-Ata (Алма-Ата) and Verny (Верный Vernyy), is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of 1,797,431 people, about 8% of the country's total population. [1]

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A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts

The A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts is the largest art museum in Kazakhstan, located in Almaty.

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Abay Opera House

Abay Opera House (translit) was built in Almaty in 1934 and named after Kazakh poet, composer, and philosopher Abay Qunanbayuli.

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Adobe

Adobe is a building material made from earth and other organic materials.

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Aerial tramway

An aerial tramway, sky tram, cable car, ropeway or aerial tram is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion.

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Air Astana

Air Astana (Эйр Астана) is the flag carrier of the Republic of Kazakhstan, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Air Kazakhstan

Air Kazakhstan was an airline of Kazakhstan which later became its national carrier after bankrupt Kazakhstan Airlines was shut down.

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Air pollution

Air pollution occurs when harmful or excessive quantities of substances including gases, particulates, and biological molecules are introduced into Earth's atmosphere.

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Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Ál-Farabı atyndaǵy Qazaq Ulttyq Únıversıti), also called KazGU or KazNU, is a university in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Alexander Brener

Alexander Davidovich Brener (Russian: Александр Бренер) (born 1957, in Alma-Ata), is a Russian-Jewish performance artist, a self-described political activist.

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Alexander Parygin

Alexander "Alex" Parygin (born 25 April 1973) is a Kazakh-Australian modern pentathlete and Olympic champion.

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Alexander Petrenko

Alexander "Sasha" Anatolievich Petrenko (alternate spelling: Alexandre) (February 4, 1976 – July 21, 2006) was a Russian professional basketball player.

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Alexandria

Alexandria (or; Arabic: الإسكندرية; Egyptian Arabic: إسكندرية; Ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ; Ⲣⲁⲕⲟⲧⲉ) is the second-largest city in Egypt and a major economic centre, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country.

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Alexey Korolev

Alexey Korolev (Алексей Королев) (born June 20, 1987 in Almaty, Soviet Union) is a Kazakhstani ski jumper who has competed since 2004.

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Alma Ata Declaration

The Declaration of Alma-Ata was adopted at the International Conference on Primary Health Care (PHC), Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), Kazakhstan (formerly Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic), 6–12 September 1978.

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Almaty Central Stadium

The Central Stadium ("Алматы орталық стадионы" or "Орталық стадион"; Ortalik Stadion) is a multi-purpose stadium in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Almaty International Airport

Almaty International Airport (Xalıqaralıq Almatı Äwejayı, translit) is the largest international airport in Kazakhstan.

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Almaty Management University

Almaty Management University (ALMA, Халықаралық бизнес академиясы, ХБА, Международная академия бизнеса, МАБ) is a higher educational institution in Almaty, Kazakhstan, providing preparation of specialists of economic fields under bachelor's degree programs, MBA (Master of Business Administration) and DBA (Doctor of Business Administration).

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Almaty Metro

Almaty Metro (Алматы метрополитені.; Алматинский метрополитен) is a rapid transit/metro system in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Almaty Tower

The Almaty Television Tower, or simply Almaty Tower, is a steel television tower built between 1975 and 1983 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications

Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications (AIPET)(kaz.Алматы Энергетика және байланыс университеті) is a technical engineering university in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Almaty-1 railway station

Almaty-1 is a railway station located in the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, and is one of two principal stations in the city.

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Almaty-2 railway station

Almaty-2 is one of the oldest train stations located in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing (cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping) which use skis with free-heel bindings.

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Altynai Asylmuratova

Altynai Abduahimovna Asylmuratova (Алтынай Абдуахимовна Асылмуратова; born 1 January 1961) is artistic director of the ballet company at Astana Opera, and a former prima ballerina with the Kirov Ballet/Mariinsky Theatre and a guest artist all over the world.

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Anatoliy Kolesnikov

Anatoliy Kolesnikov (born 6 December 1988), formerly known as Anatoly Bose, is an Australian-Kazakhstani professional basketball player for BC Astana of the Kazakhstan League.

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Anatoly Vaisser

Anatoly Vaisser (born 5 March 1949 in Almaty) is a Soviet-born French chess grandmaster and four-time world seniors champion.

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Anno Domini

The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Apple

An apple is a sweet, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus pumila).

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Architecture of Almaty

The city of Almaty (Kazakhstan) has notable examples of architecture, particularly from the 19th century period.

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Ascension Cathedral, Almaty

The Ascension Cathedral (also known as Zenkov Cathedral) is a Russian Orthodox cathedral located in Panfilov Park in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Asian Development Bank

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in the Ortigas Center located in the city of Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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Astana

Astana (Астана, Astana) is the capital city of Kazakhstan.

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Ürümqi

Ürümqi (yengi; from Oirat "beautiful pasture") is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the far northwest of the People's Republic of China.

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Baluan Sholak Sports Palace

The Baluan Sholak Sports Palace (Балуан Шолақ атындағы спорт сарайы) is a Palace of Sports in Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan.

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Bandung

Bandung (Sundanese:, Bandung, formerly Dutch: Bandoeng), is the capital of West Java province in Indonesia and Greater Bandung made up of 2 municipalities and 38 districts, making it Indonesia's 2nd largest metropolitan area with over 8.5 millions inhabitants listed in the 2015 Badan Pusat Statistik data.

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Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.

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Bandy World Championship

The Bandy World Championship is a competition between bandy-playing nations' men's teams.

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Battalion

A battalion is a military unit.

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BC Almaty

Basketball Club "BC" Almaty (Баскетбольный клуб "БК" Алматы) is a Kazakhstani professional basketball club based in the city of Almaty in southern Kazakhstan.

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Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

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Biathlon

The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.

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Bicycle-sharing system

A bicycle-sharing system, public bicycle system, or bike-share scheme, is a service in which bicycles are made available for shared use to individuals on a short term basis for a price or free.

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Big Almaty Lake

Big Almaty Lake (Үлкен Алматы көлі, rus. Большое Алматинское Озеро) is natural alpine reservoir.

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Bishkek

Bishkek (Бишке́к, BISHKEK, بىشکەک;; bʲɪʂˈkʲɛk), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz Republic).

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (p; derived from bol'shinstvo (большинство), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority"), were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Boris Polak

Boris Polak (בוריס פולק; born July 15, 1954) is an Israeli former world champion and Olympic sport shooter.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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BTA Bank

BTA Bank (БТА) (BTA Bank Joint-Stock Company in full) is a Kazakhstan bank with headquarters in Almaty.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union.

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Cardinal direction

The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are the directions north, east, south, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, E, S, and W. East and west are at right angles to north and south, with east being in the clockwise direction of rotation from north and west being directly opposite east.

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Central Asia

Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north.

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Central State Museum of Kazakhstan

The Central State Museum of Kazakhstan is the largest museum in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and one of the largest museums in Central Asia.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Cossacks

Cossacks (козаки́, translit, kozaky, казакi, kozacy, Czecho-Slovak: kozáci, kozákok Pronunciations.

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Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland.

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Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance.

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Daegu

Daegu (대구, 大邱, literally 'large hill') formerly spelled Taegu and officially known as the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea, the fourth largest after Seoul, Busan, and Incheon, and the third largest metropolitan area in the nation with over 2.5 million residents.

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Denis Ten

Denis Yuryevich Ten (Денис Юрьевич Тен; born 13 June 1993) is a Kazakh figure skater.

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Dinmukhamed Kunaev

Dinmukhamed (Dimash) Akhmetuly Kunaev (Дінмұхаммед (Димаш) Ахметұлы Қонаев, Dіnmuhammed (Dımash) Ahmetuly Qonaev; Динмухаммед Ахмедович Кунаев; – 22 August 1993) was a Kazakh Soviet communist politician.

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Division (military)

A division is a large military unit or formation, usually consisting of between 10,000 and 20,000 soldiers.

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Dmitry Fofonov

Dmitry Fofonov (Дмитрий Фофонов; born 15 August 1976 in Almaty) is a former Kazakh professional road bicycle racer who was fired from UCI ProTeam Crédit Agricole for doping.

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Dmitry Ogai

Dmitriy Alekseevich Ogai (Дмитрий Алексеевич Огай; born 14 May 1960) is a Kazakhstani professional football manager of Korean descent.

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Dzungar people

The name Dzungar people, also written as Zunghar (literally züüngar, from the Mongolian for "left hand"), referred to the several Oirat tribes who formed and maintained the Dzungar Khanate in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Earthly Branches

The Earthly Branches or Twelve Branches are an ordering system used throughout East Asia in various contexts, including its ancient dating system, astrological traditions, and zodiac.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945.

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Elena Likhovtseva

Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva (Елена Александровна Лиховцева; born 8 September 1975) is a Russian former tennis player.

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Elena Zoubareva

Elena Zoubareva is a Russian American soprano specializing in opera and classical crossover.

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Enbekshikazakh District

Enbekshikazakh District (Еңбекшіқазақ ауданы) is a district of Almaty Region in Kazakhstan.

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Erbolat Dossaev

Erbolat Askarbekovich Dossaev (born 1970 RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty) was named deputy prime minister of Kazakhstan on 29 August 2017.

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Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young (doing business as EY) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, England.

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Esentai Tower

Esentai Tower is a high rise mixed-use hotel and office building in the Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Esik

Esik (Есік, also spelled Issyk, Yesik and Yesyk) is a town in Almaty Region of Kazakhstan, the administrative center of Enbekshikazakh District.

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Eugen Bauder

Eugen Bauder (born 5 March 1986) is a German model and actor.

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European Cup (bandy)

The European Cup is an annual bandy club competition between teams from Europe.

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FC Kairat

Football Club Kairat (Qajrat Futbol Kluby) is a professional football club based in Almaty, which plays in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest level of Kazakh football.

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Federation of International Bandy

The Federation of International Bandy (FIB; Fédération internationale de bandy, Международная федерация хоккея с мячом, Internationella Bandyförbundet) is the international governing body for the sport of bandy, including the variant called rink bandy.

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Financial services

Financial services are the economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, accountancy companies, consumer-finance companies, stock brokerages, investment funds, individual managers and some government-sponsored enterprises.

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First President's Park

First President's Park is an urban park located in Almaty at the intersection of Navoi Street and Al-Farabi Avenue in the Bostandyk district.

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Fortification

A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare; and is also used to solidify rule in a region during peacetime.

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Fuat Mansurov

Fuat Mansurov (Фуат Шакир улы Мансуров, Мансуров, Фуат Шакирович) (January 10, 1928 – June 12, 2010) was a Soviet and Russian conductor.

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Genetic diversity

Genetic diversity is the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species.

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Global city

A global city, also called world city or sometimes alpha city or world center, is a city which is a primary node in the global economic network.

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Globalization and World Cities Research Network

The Globalization and World Cities Research Network, commonly abbreviated to GaWC, is a think tank that studies the relationships between world cities in the context of globalization.

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Golden Warrior Monument

The Golden Warrior Monument, also known as the Golden Man Statue or the Statue of the Golden Warrior, stands on Republic Square in the former capital of Kazakhstan, Almaty.

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Gorniy Gigant District

Gorniy Gigant District (or Gorny Gigant) is a district located in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Great Purge

The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Большо́й терро́р) was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.

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Hotel Kazakhstan

Hotel Kazakhstan (translit, Гостиница Казахстан) is the third-tallest building in the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Housing cooperative

A housing cooperative, co-op, or housing company (especially in Finland), is a legal entity, usually a cooperative or a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure.

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HSBC

HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational banking and financial services holding company, tracing its origin to a hong in Hong Kong.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.

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Igor Sysoev

Igor Sysoev (Russian: Игорь Сысоев) is a Russian software engineer.

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Ile District, Kazakhstan

Ile District (Іле ауданы) is a district of Almaty Region in Kazakhstan.

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International Information Technology University

International IT University or International university of information technologies (Халықаралық ақпараттық технологиялар университеті) - established in close collaboration with educational organization iCarnegie which represents American IT university Carnegie Mellon in 2009 by order of President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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ISO 3166-2:KZ

ISO 3166-2:KZ is the entry for Kazakhstan in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Issyk kurgan

The Issyk kurgan, in south-eastern Kazakhstan, less than 20 km east from the Talgar alluvial fan, near Issyk, is a burial mound discovered in 1969.

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Istanbul

Istanbul (or or; İstanbul), historically known as Constantinople and Byzantium, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historic center.

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Ivan Panfilov

Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov (Иван Васильевич Панфилов; – 18 November 1941) was a Soviet general and a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union, known for his command of the 316th Rifle Division during the defense of Moscow at the Second World War.

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Jambyl District, Jambyl

Jambyl (Жамбыл ауданы) is a district of Jambyl Region in south-eastern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the auyl of Asy.

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Jeltoqsan

The Jeltoqsan (Желтоқсан көтерілісі, Jeltoqsan kóterilisi) or "December" of 1986 were riots that took place in Alma-Ata (present-day Almaty), Kazakhstan, in response to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's dismissal of Dinmukhamed Kunaev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and an ethnic Kazakh, and his appointment of Gennady Kolbin, an outsider from the Russian SFSR.

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Jihadism

The term "Jihadism" (also "jihadist movement", "jihadi movement" and variants) is a 21st-century neologism found in Western languages to describe Islamist militant movements perceived as military movements "rooted in Islam" and "existentially threatening" to the West.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Kapchagay

Kapshagai (Қапшағай, Капшага́й) is a city in Almaty Region of Kazakhstan.

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Kargaly

Kargaly is a copper mining-metallurgical district in the southern Urals of Russia.

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Kaskelen

Kaskelen is a town and seat of Karasay District in Almaty Region of south-eastern Kazakhstan.

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Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages

The Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages (KazUIR & WL, Ablai Khan University), or Kazakh State Teacher's Institute of Foreign Languages, as it was identified at its inception, has provided foreign language education for 65 years.

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Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic

The Kazak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (Казакская Автономная Социалистическая Советская Республика; Qazaq Aptonom Sotsijalijstik Sobettik Respuvblijkasь), abbreviated as Kazak ASSR (Казакская АССР; Qazaq ASSR) and simply Kazakhstan (Казахстан; Qazaqstan), was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) existing from 1925 until 1936.

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Kazakh language

Kazakh (natively italic, qazaq tili) belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages.

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Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering is a top institution among the higher education institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan in fields of Architecture, Design, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Economics and Management in Construction.

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Kazakh Museum of Folk Musical Instruments

The Kazakh Museum of Folk Musical Instruments (Қазақ халық музыкалық аспаптар мұражайы, Qazaq xalıq mwzıkalıq aspaptar murajayı; Kazakhskiy muzey narodnykh muzykal'nykh instrumentov, variously translated) is a musical instrument museum located in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Kazakh National Academy of Arts

The Kazakh National Academy of Arts, named after T.K. Zhurgenov, is the main theatre, film, dramatic and fine arts and design school in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Kazakh National Medical University

Kazakh National Medical University is a university in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Kazakh-British Technical University

Kazakh-British Technical University, or KBTU is a research and educational institution located in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Kazakhs

The Kazakhs (also spelled Kazaks, Qazaqs; Қазақ, Qazaq, قازاق, Qazaqtar, Қазақтар, قازاقتار; the English name is transliterated from Russian) are a Turkic people who mainly inhabit the southern part of Eastern Europe and the Ural mountains and northern parts of Central Asia (largely Kazakhstan, but also parts of Uzbekistan, China, Russia and Mongolia), the region also known as the Eurasian sub-continent.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan,; kəzɐxˈstan), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan Respýblıkasy; Respublika Kazakhstan), is the world's largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world, with an area of.

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Kazakhstan Airlines

Kazakhstan Airlines was an airline from Kazakhstan, serving as national flag carrier of the country from its independence in 1991 until 1996, when this role was transferred to Air Kazakhstan following the disaster of Flight 1907.

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Kazakhstan Basketball Cup

The Kazakhstan Basketball Cup (Кубка Казахстана по баскетболу) is the national men's professional basketball cup competition in the country of Kazakhstan.

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Kazakhstan Independence Day

Kazakhstan Independence Day (Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасының Тәуелсіздік күні) is the main national holiday in the Republic of Kazakhstan, celebrated annually the 16th of December.

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Kazakhstan International School

Kazakhstan International School (KIS) is a nonprofit international school in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Kazakhstan Stock Exchange

The Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE; Қазақстан қор биржасы Qazaqstan qor bïrjası) is a stock exchange located in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Kazakhstan Temir Zholy

Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ; Qazaqstan Temir Joly (QTJ)), also National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, is the national railway company of Kazakhstan.

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Kazan

Kazan (p; Казан) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

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Kazkommertsbank

Kazkommertsbank (Қазкоммерцбанк) is the largest private bank in Kazakhstan with a total market share of 24%.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Khanate of Kokand

The Khanate of Kokand (Qo‘qon Xonligi, Қўқон Хонлиги, قۇقان خانلىگى; Qoqon xandığı, قوقون حاندىعى; Xânâte Xuqand) was a Central Asian state in Fergana Valley that existed from 1709–1876 within the territory of modern Kyrgyzstan, eastern Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and southeastern Kazakhstan.

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Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv (Kyiv; Kiyev; Kyjev) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper.

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KIMEP University

KIMEP University (formerly: the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research) is an institution of higher education in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Kok Tobe

Kok Tobe (Kók Tóbe - "Green Hill"; Кок Тюбе, Kok Tyube) is a mountain in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city.

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Konstantin Sokolenko

Konstantin Sokolenko (born 9 November 1987 in Soviet Union) is a Kazakhstani Nordic combined skier.

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Koreans

Koreans (in South Korean; alternatively in North Korean,; see names of Korea) are an East Asian ethnic group originating from and native to Korea and southern and central Manchuria.

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Kyrgyzstan

The Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyz Respublikasy; r; Қирғиз Республикаси.), or simply Kyrgyzstan, and also known as Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan; r), is a sovereign state in Central Asia.

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Kyzylorda

Kyzylorda (Қызылорда, Qyzylorda, قىزىلوردا), formerly known as Kzyl-Orda (Кзыл-Орда), Ak-Mechet (Ак-Мечеть), Perovsk (Перовск), and Fort-Perovsky (Форт-Перовский), is a city in south-central Kazakhstan, capital of Kyzylorda Region and former capital of the Kazak ASSR from 1925 to 1929.

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Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; – 21 August 1940) was a Russian revolutionary, theorist, and Soviet politician.

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Light industry

Light industry is industries that usually are less capital-intensive than heavy industry and is more consumer-oriented than business-oriented, as it typically produces smaller consumer goods.

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Malus sieversii

Malus sieversii is a wild apple native to the mountains of Central Asia in southern Kazakhstan.

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Medeu

The Medeu, (Kazakh: Медеу; Medeu) is an outdoor speed skating and bandy rink.

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Medeu Dam

The Medeu Mudflow Control Dam (Медеу бөгеті.) is a dam across the Medeu Valley south-east of Almaty, Kazakhstan, designed to protect the city from devastating debris flows (or mudflows).

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Mexico City

Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Ciudad de México,; abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, GCL (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislach and the Nyamiha Rivers.

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Mint (facility)

A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins that can be used in currency.

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Mogadishu

Mogadishu (Muqdisho), known locally as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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Mudflow

A mudflow or mud flow is a form of mass wasting involving "very rapid to extremely rapid surging flow" of debris that has become partially or fully liquified by the addition of significant amounts of water to the source material.

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Nagima Eskalieva

Nagima Eskalieva (Нағима Қабылқызы Есқалиева, Нагима Хабдуловна Ескалиева) (born February 3, 1954 in Fabrichnyy, Zhambyl District, Almaty Region) is a Kazakhstani singer and awarded national artist of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

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Narxoz University

Narxoz University is a private higher education institution in Almaty, Kazakhstan, established in 1963.

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Nastaʿlīq script

Nastaʿlīq (نستعلیق, from نسخ Naskh and تعلیق Taʿlīq) is one of the main calligraphic hands used in writing the Persian alphabet, and traditionally the predominant style in Persian calligraphy.

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Natalia Sedova

Natalia Ivanovna Sedova (Ната́лья Ива́новна Седо́ва; April 5, 1882 Romny, Russian Empire– January 23, 1962, Corbeil-Essonnes, Paris, France) is best known as the second wife of Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.

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Nikolay Karpenko

Nikolay Karpenko (born August 10, 1981 in Almaty) is a Kazakhstani ski jumper who has been competing since 2005.

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Nursultan Nazarbayev

Nursultan Ábishuly Nazarbayev (born 6 July 1940) is a Kazakh statesman serving as President of Kazakhstan since the office was created on April 24, 1990.

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October Revolution

The October Revolution (p), officially known in Soviet literature as the Great October Socialist Revolution (Вели́кая Октя́брьская социалисти́ческая револю́ция), and commonly referred to as Red October, the October Uprising, the Bolshevik Revolution, or the Bolshevik Coup, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolsheviks and Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.

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Olessya Kulakova

Olessya Kulakova (born January 31, 1977 in Alma-Ata) is a German volleyball player naturalized from Kazakhstan; she played as a middle blocker for the German Women's National Team.

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Olga Shishigina

Olga Vasilyevna Shishigina (Ольга Васильевна Шишигина; born 23 December 1968) is a retired Kazakhstani track and field athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres hurdles.

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Ottoman Turkish language

Ottoman Turkish (Osmanlı Türkçesi), or the Ottoman language (Ottoman Turkish:, lisân-ı Osmânî, also known as, Türkçe or, Türkî, "Turkish"; Osmanlıca), is the variety of the Turkish language that was used in the Ottoman Empire.

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Park of 28 Panfilov Guardsmen

The Park of 28 Panfilov Guardsmen is a major park in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Particulates

Atmospheric aerosol particles, also known as atmospheric particulate matter, particulate matter (PM), particulates, or suspended particulate matter (SPM) are microscopic solid or liquid matter suspended in Earth's atmosphere.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی), is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Postal code

A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, Eircode, PIN Code or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail.

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Primary healthcare

Primary healthcare (PHC) refers to "essential health care" that is based on "scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology, which make universal health care accessible to all individuals and families in a community.

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Production company

A production company, production house, or production studio is a company that produces performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, comics, interactive arts, video games, websites, and videos.

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.

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Radik Zhaparov

Radik Zhaparov (born February 29, 1984) is a Kazakh ski jumper who has competed since 2003.

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Rapid transit

Rapid transit or mass rapid transit, also known as heavy rail, metro, MRT, subway, tube, U-Bahn or underground, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas.

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Regina Kulikova

Regina Aleksandrovna Kulikova (Russian: Регина Александровна Куликова, born 30 January 1989) is a former professional Russian tennis player.

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Regions of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is divided into 14 regions (облыстар./oblystar; singular: облыс/oblıs; области./oblasti; singular: область/oblast'). The regions are further subdivided into districts (аудандар./aýdandar; singular: аудан/aýdan; районы./rayoni; singular: район/rayon). Four cities, Baikonur, Shymkent, the largest city Almaty, and the capital Astana are not part of the regions they are surrounded by.

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Rennes

Rennes (Roazhon,; Gallo: Resnn) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine.

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Republic Square, Almaty

Republic Square (Республика Алаңы, Respýblıka Alańy; Площадь Республики, Ploshchad' Respubliki) is the main square in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Riga

Riga (Rīga) is the capital and largest city of Latvia.

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Rural–urban fringe

The rural–urban fringe, also known as the outskirts or the urban hinterland, can be described as the "landscape interface between town and country", or also as the transition zone where urban and rural uses mix and often clash.

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Ruslana Korshunova

Ruslana Sergeyevna Korshunova (Руслана Серге́евна Коршунова; 2 July 1987 – 28 June 2008) was a Kazakhstani model of Russian descent.

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Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War (Grazhdanskaya voyna v Rossiyi; November 1917 – October 1922) was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Russian language

Russian (rússkiy yazýk) is an East Slavic language, which is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Russians

Russians (русские, russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. The majority of Russians inhabit the nation state of Russia, while notable minorities exist in other former Soviet states such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine and the Baltic states. A large Russian diaspora also exists all over the world, with notable numbers in the United States, Germany, Israel, and Canada. Russians are the most numerous ethnic group in Europe. The Russians share many cultural traits with their fellow East Slavic counterparts, specifically Belarusians and Ukrainians. They are predominantly Orthodox Christians by religion. The Russian language is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and also spoken as a secondary language in many former Soviet states.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Saka

Saka, Śaka, Shaka or Saca mod. ساکا; Śaka; Σάκαι, Sákai; Sacae;, old *Sək, mod. Sāi) is the name used in Middle Persian and Sanskrit sources for the Scythians, a large group of Eurasian nomads on the Eurasian Steppe speaking Eastern Iranian languages.

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Satbayev Kazakh National Technical University

Satbayev University (Қазақ Ұлттық Техникалық Зерттеу Университет, Qazaq Ulttıq Texnïkalıq Zertteu Wnïversïtet) is the oldest and biggest educational center for all technical areas in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Sayran Bus Station

Sayran bus terminal (Сайран автобекеті), also "new bus station" or "central intercity bus station", is a major long distance bus station in Almaty on the North West corner of the Sayran Reservoir.

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Seismic analysis

Seismic analysis is a subset of structural analysis and is the calculation of the response of a building (or nonbuilding) structure to earthquakes.

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Sergei Ostapenko

Sergei Sergeyevich Ostapenko (Серге́й Остапенко) (born 23 February 1986) is a Kazakh footballer, who plays for FC Astana.

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Shymbulak

Shymbulak (S'ymbulaq, Шымбұлақ), also known as Chimbulak (Чимбулак) is a ski resort near Almaty.

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Silk Road

The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and West.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Ski jumping

Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the longest jump after descending from a specially designed ramp on their skis.

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Ski resort

A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports.

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Ski-orienteering

Ski orienteering (SkiO) is a cross-country skiing endurance winter racing sport and one of the four orienteering disciplines recognized by the IOF.

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Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors and is taller than approximately.

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Sloboda

A sloboda (p) was a kind of settlement in the history of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.

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Soldatskoe Valley Cross Country Skiing and Biathlon Stadium

Soldatskoe Valley Cross Country Skiing and Biathlon Stadium, also known as "Alatau" Cross Country Skiing and Biathlon Stadium («Алатау» шаңғы және биатлон стадиондарының кешені, Комплекс лыжного и биатлонного стадионов "Алатау") is a cross-country skiing and biathlon venue located at the Soldatskoye Valley in the Talgar District of Almaty Region, Kazakhstan.

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Soviet (council)

Soviets (singular: soviet; sovét,, literally "council" in English) were political organizations and governmental bodies, primarily associated with the Russian Revolutions and the history of the Soviet Union, and which gave the name to the latter state.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Speed skating

Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates.

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Stanitsa

Stanitsa (p; станиця, stanytsia) is a village inside a Cossack host (viysko) (казачье войско, kazachye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Army").

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Suleyman Demirel University

Süleyman Demirel University (translit, Университет имени Сулеймана Демиреля,Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi, abbreviated as SDU) is a private university in Kaskelen, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Sunkar International Ski Jumping Complex

The Sunkar International Ski Jumping Complex («Сұңқар» халықаралық шаңғы трамплиндер кешені, Международный Комплекс Лыжных Трамплинов “Сункар”) is ski jumping center in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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T. J. Gottesdiener

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Talgar

Talgar (Талғар / Talg'ar; Талгар) is a town in Almaty Region, southeastern Kazakhstan.

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Talgar District

Talgar District (Талғар ауданы) is a district of Almaty Region in Kazakhstan.

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Tatars

The Tatars (татарлар, татары) are a Turkic-speaking peoples living mainly in Russia and other Post-Soviet countries.

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Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv (תֵּל אָבִיב,, تل أَبيب) is the second most populous city in Israel – after Jerusalem – and the most populous city in the conurbation of Gush Dan, Israel's largest metropolitan area.

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The Golden Square (Almaty)

The Golden Square (Золотой Квадрат; Zolotoi Kvadrat) is a town square located in the city center of Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Thermal power station

A thermal power station is a power station in which heat energy is converted to electric power.

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Thomas Schertwitis

Thomas Schertwitis (born 2 September 1972 in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR) is a German water polo player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Tian Shan

The Tian Shan,, also known as the Tengri Tagh, meaning the Mountains of Heaven or the Heavenly Mountain, is a large system of mountain ranges located in Central Asia.

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Time Warner Center

Time Warner Center is a mixed use (office/commercial and residential) twin-tower building in New York City.

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Tokyo Midtown

is a 569,000-square-meter (6.1 million sq ft) mixed-use development in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan.

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Trans-Ili Alatau

Ile Alatau (Ile Alatay'y, Іле Алатауы; Заилийский Алатау, Zailiyskiy Alatau), also spelt as Trans-Ili Alatau, etc., is a part of the Northern Tian Shan mountain system (ancient Mount Imeon) in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

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Tsar

Tsar (Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic: ц︢рь or цар, цaрь), also spelled csar, or czar, is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe.

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Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and home to the University of Arizona.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Tupolev

Tupolev (Ту́полев) is a Russian aerospace and defence company, headquartered in Basmanny District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow.

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Tupolev Tu-144

The Tupolev Tu-144 (Tyполев Ту-144; NATO reporting name: Charger) is a retired jet airliner and commercial supersonic transport aircraft (SST).

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Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (initially, the Turkestan Socialist Federative Republic; 30 April 191827 October 1924) was an autonomous republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic located in Soviet Central Asia.

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Turkestan–Siberia Railway

The Turkestan–Siberian Railway (commonly abbreviated as the Turk–Sib, Түрксіб, Tu’rksib, تٷركسٸب, tʰʉɾkˈsɘb; Турксиб, Turksib) is a broad gauge railway that connects Central Asia with Siberia.

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Ukrainians

Ukrainians (українці, ukrayintsi) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is by total population the sixth-largest nation in Europe.

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University of International Business and Economics (Beijing)

The University of International Business and Economics (UIBE; abbr. 贸大, Mào Dà), is a national public research university specialized in economics, finance, management, law and foreign languages established in 1951 in Beijing, China.

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UTC+06:00

UTC+06:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +06:00.

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Uyghurs

The Uyghurs or Uygurs (as the standard romanisation in Chinese GB 3304-1991) are a Turkic ethnic group who live in East and Central Asia.

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Vadim Sayutin

Vadim Aleksandrovich Sayutin (Вадим Александрович Саютин) (born 31 December 1970) is a former speed skater who represented the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Kazakhstan, and Russia, in that order.

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Vilnius

Vilnius (see also other names) is the capital of Lithuania and its largest city, with a population of 574,221.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April 1870According to the new style calendar (modern Gregorian), Lenin was born on 22 April 1870. According to the old style (Old Julian) calendar used in the Russian Empire at the time, it was 10 April 1870. Russia converted from the old to the new style calendar in 1918, under Lenin's administration. – 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

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Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (Влади́мир Во́льфович Жирино́вский; né Eidelstein (Эйдельште́йн); born 25 April 1946) is a Russian ultranationalist politician of Ashkenazi origin and leader of the LDPR party (formerly Liberal Democratic Party of Russia).

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WikiBilim

WikiBilim Public Foundation is a nonprofit organization operating in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Wusun

The Wusun were an Indo-European semi-nomadic steppe people mentioned in Chinese records from the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE.

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Yernar Yerimbetov

Yernar Yerimbetov (born February 15, 1980 in Almaty) is a gymnast from Kazakhstan.

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Zarina Diyas

Zarina Diyas (Zari'na Di'as; born 18 October 1993) is a Kazakh tennis player.

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Zhansaya Abdumalik

Zhansaya Abdumalik (Jansaya Daniyarqyzy Aebdimaelik; born 12 January 2000) is a Kazakhstani chess player holding the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

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Zhetysu

Zhetysu or Semirechye (Jetisu', Жетісу, pronounced meaning "seven rivers"; also transcribed Zhetisu, Jetisuw, Jetysu, Jeti-su, Jity-su, Жетысу, Джетысу etc. and Yedi-su in Turkish, هفت‌آب Haft-āb in Persian) is a historical name of a part of Central Asia, corresponding to the southeastern part of modern Kazakhstan.

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2011 Asian Winter Games

The 2011 Asian Winter Games was a multi sporting event that was held in Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan and that began on January 30, 2011 and ended on February 6, 2011.

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2012 Bandy World Championship

The 2012 Bandy World Championship was an edition of the top annual event in international bandy, held between January 29 and February 5, 2012, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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2014 Winter Olympics

The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (Les XXIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) (r) and commonly known as Sochi 2014, was an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, with opening rounds in certain events held on the eve of the opening ceremony, 6 February 2014.

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2016 shooting of Almaty police officers

On July 18, 2016, Ruslan Kulikbayev, a 26-year-old Salafi Jihadist and ex-convict, shot and killed 10 people, including 8 police officers and 2 civilians, at a police station in Almaty, Kazakhstan before being apprehended in a chase and shootout with law enforcement.

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2017 Winter Universiade

Winter Universiade 2017, the XXVIII Winter Universiade, is a multi-sport winter event which took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan in January and February 2017.

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2018 Winter Olympics

The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpik) and commonly known as PyeongChang 2018, was an international winter multi-sport event that was held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February 2018, the eve of the opening ceremony.

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2022 Winter Olympics

The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIV Olympic Winter Games (Les XXIVème Jeux olympiques d'hiver), and commonly known as Beijing 2022, is an international winter multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 4 to 20 February 2022, in Beijing and towns in the neighbouring Hebei province, People's Republic of China.

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7 World Trade Center

7 World Trade Center (7 WTC) refers to two buildings that have existed at the same location within the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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8th Guards Motor Rifle Division

The 8th Guards Panfilov Division (8-я гвардейская Панфиловская дивизия) originally the 316th Rifle Division, is a motorized infantry division of the Military of Kyrgyzstan.

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References

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