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Atyrau Region, Mangystau Region, West Kazakhstan Region: 2021 ii (cultural) This nomination comprises the sites along the Silk Road that were connecting the Aral Sea with the Caspian Sea and further along the Ural and Volga rivers. The oldest settlement, Kyzylkala, dates to the 10th century, and was abandoned in the 13th century.
It is a monument of history and architecture, which is under state protection. It is a two-story brick building, built in 1904. In 2000, the museum received the status of Akmola Regional Local History Museum, because Kokshetau became the center of Akmola region. The first large-scale reconstruction was carried out in 2012.
Throughout history, peoples on the territory of modern Kazakhstan had nomadic lifestyle, which developed and influenced Kazakh culture. Human activity in the region began with the extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus one million–800,000 years ago in the Karatau Mountains and the Caspian and Balkhash areas.
The Nazarbayev Center (Kazakh: Назарбаев орталығы, Russian: Назарбаев центр) is a multifunctional scientific, analytical, humanitarian and educational public institution in Kazakhstan. The center contains a museum of Kazakh history, a gallery of Kazakh artists, a national archive, an educational facility and a ...
Kazakhstan, [d] officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, [e] is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a small portion situated in Eastern Europe. [f] It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, with a coastline along the Caspian Sea.
The region of the "seven rivers", only five of which still exist today Jetisu ( Kazakh : Жетісу , romanized : Jetısu [ʒʲetɘˈsuˑ] ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] or Semirechye (Russian: Семиречье , IPA: [sʲɪmʲɪˈrʲetɕje] ) is a historical region in Central Asia corresponding to the southeastern part of modern Kazakhstan .
Karaganda (UK: / ˌ k ær ə ˈ ɡ æ n d ə /, US: / ˌ k ɑːr ə ˈ ɡ ɑː n d ə /; Russian: Караганда [kərəɡɐnˈda]), also known as Karagandy (UK: / ˌ k ær ə ˈ ɡ æ n d i /, US: / ˌ k ɑːr ə ˈ ɡ ɑː n d i /; Russian: Караганды [kərəɡɐnˈdɨ]; Kazakh: Қарағанды / Qarağandy [qɑrɑˌʁɑnˈdə] ⓘ) (also sometimes romanized as Qaraghandy), is ...
After the administrative reform in 1997, the last change happened since then took place in 1999, when parts of North Kazakhstan that originally belonged to Kokshetau region became part of Akmola. The 1990s merges were in order to dilute the Russian population in the resulting region and to avoid having regions where Russians form a majority.