Taldykorgan

Taldyqorghan ( Kazakh Талдықорған; Russian Талдыкорган / Taldykorgan ) is the administrative seat of the territory of Almaty, Kazakhstan. The city lies on the River Karatal in the southeast of the country.

History

In 1868, the nomadic winter camp Taldyqorghan was officially upgraded to settlement Gawrilowka. There Russian settlers came under. In 1920 the settlement was renamed back to Taldyqorghan. As in the 1940s, the plants were moved from the part of the Soviet Union west of the Urals in the east, began the boom in this region. 1944 was the settlement city status and was told at the same time the administrative center. End of 1980er-/Anfang 1990s continued as everywhere in Kazakhstan, the stagnation in. The collapse of all the farms had many no longer any reason to stay in Taldyqorghan. So the city had experienced a major population decline in the early 1990s. Many young people moved to Almaty or emigrated abroad. The Taldyqorghan Oblast was dissolved and passed into the oblast Almaty. In 2001, President Nazarbayev made ​​it the capital of the region, which led to major alterations in the city. There new office buildings, shops, restaurants, a hotel were built and reattached many roads. As a result, they returned 20,000 people within 1.5 years in the city.

In the city of 114 728 inhabitants ( as of 2008), of which mostly Kazakhs.

Culture and sights

On the square in front of the regional administration is a fountain whose seven granite columns of water symbolizes the seven rivers of the Seven Rivers country ( Schetysu ). The History Museum of the Territory is named after the Kazakh patriots Much Amend Chan Tynyschbajew. The next location Schansugurow Museum honors the poet Ilyas Schansugurow.

Infrastructure

Taldyqorghan has a variety of educational institutions, a university, technical college, secondary schools and kindergartens. There are 27 institutions of public health, a theater, amusement parks, libraries, city theater, stadium, gymnasium, and swimming pools.

Taldyqorghan has an airport that connects a number of Kazakh and Russian cities. The station connects the center of Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Russia, the Baltic States and China.

Through the town the road runs Europe 40

Sports

The football club Schetissu Taldyqorghan plays in the Kazakhstan Super League with. Schetissu missed at the end of the 2011 season, the championship just by one victory.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Alibek Buleschew ( b. 1981 ), football player
  • Andrei Kiwiljow (1973-2003), cyclist
  • Tatjana Lessowaja (* 1956), a discus thrower
  • Grumbling Mamirow (born 1970 ), wrestler
  • Aschat Schitkejew (* 1981), judoka
  • Viktor Sidorenko ( born 1953 ), artist
  • Sergei Wodopjanow (* 1987), Russian boxers

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