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[Image:Almaty church.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Orthodox church]] Almaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan

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, with a population of 1,185,900 citizens. The name "Almaty" means "appled" , the older version of its name, Alma-Ata, literally means "father-apple". In the surrounding region, unrivalled genetic diversity among the alma, the wild apples, implies that south-east Kazakhstan is where the domesticated apple Apple

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 is native. A troop of Siberian Siberia

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 Cossacks Cossack

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 from Omsk Omsk

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 founded the fort Zailiysky in 1854 at the foot of the Tian Shan Tian Shan

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 mountain range, and renamed it one year later to Vernyj, a name that remained until 1921.

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n fort is established at the present site of Almaty.



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Almaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, also spelled Kazakstan, , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country th... 

, with a population of 1,185,900 citizens.

The name "Almaty" means "appled" , the older version of its name, Alma-Ata, literally means "father-apple". In the surrounding region, unrivalled genetic diversity among the alma, the wild apples, implies that south-east Kazakhstan is where the domesticated apple Apple

The apple is a tree [i] and its pomaceous [i] fruit [i], of the species Malus domestica in the ... 

 is native.

A troop of Siberian Siberia

Siberia is a vast region of Russia [i] constituting almost all of Northern Asia [i]. ... 

 Cossacks Cossack

Cossacks are a group of several peoples living in the southern steppe [i] regions of Eastern Europe [i] ... 

 from Omsk Omsk

Omsk is a city in southwest Siberia [i] in Russia [i], the administrative center of Omsk Oblast [i]. ... 

 founded the fort Zailiysky in 1854 at the foot of the Tian Shan Tian Shan

The Tian Shan, also commonly spelled Tien Shan, and known as Tangri Tagh in the Uyghur [i] l ... 

 mountain range, and renamed it one year later to Vernyj, a name that remained until 1921. In 1921, the name Alma-Ata was created by the Bolsheviks Bolshevik

Bolsheviks were members of the Bolshevik faction of the Marxist [i] Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party [i]... 

. In a devastating earthquake in 1911, almost the only large building that remained standing was the Russian Orthodox cathedral. In the 1920s, after the completion of the Turkestan-Siberia Railway, Alma-Ata, as it was then known, became a major stopping point along the track.

In 1929, Almaty became the capital of the Kazakh SSR. In late 1991, Almaty became the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a designation it kept until 1998, when the capital was moved to Astana Astana

Astana , estimated population of 600,000 , is the second largest city and the capital [i] of Kazakhstan [i] ... 

. Almaty, however, remains the largest city in Kazakhstan and the country's major commercial center. In 2005, the city launched an Olympic application to host the XXII Olympic Winter Games 2014 Winter Olympics

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 in the year 2014, which failed, as the IOC did not select the city as a candidate.

A short bus ride into the Tian Shan Tian Shan

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 mountains brings one to Medeo Medeo

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, a popular tourist destination, with several hotels and an olympic-size skating rink.

On 21 December, 1991, the Charter that ended the Soviet Union Soviet Union

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 creating the Commonwealth of Independent States Commonwealth of Independent States

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 was signed there.

Universities of Almaty

  • International Academy of Business
  • Kazakh-American University
  • Kimep
  • Kazakh State University
  • Kazakh Academy of Sciences

See also

  • Almaty International Airport
  • Primary health care. For information on the 1978 WHO-UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund

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     Alma-Ata Declaration
  • Names of Asian cities in different languages

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    , Turkey Turkey

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    , Arizona Arizona

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