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13 unusual facts about Almaty


A-Studio

The band was created in 1982 in Almaty, then called Alma-Ata, hence called "Alma-Ata Studio".

Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia

In 2003 AKMICA presented Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in a nine-day concert tour of Central Asia featuring concerts and workshops in Bishkek, Almaty, and Dushanbe.

Assylbek Yensepov

Following a typical parcours in classical musical education, he graduated from A. Zhubanova musical school and Kurmagazy national conservatory in Almaty in Kazakhstan.

Dervishi

The group was founded in Almaty, Kazakhstan in July 1999 by four musicians: Dilmurat Baharov, Adil Zhambakiev, Aziz Massimov and Raim Khamrayev.

Dina Aspandiyarova

Dina Aspandiyarova, (born 10 July 1976 in Almaty, Kazakhstan) is a professional sporting shooter who has previously represented Kazakhstan and Russia and currently represents Australia in international competition.

Golos Respubliki

Published weekly, it focused on covering business and economic issues in Kazakhstan, and frequently published stories critical of the regime, including financial mismanagement and supposed cronyism, such as the granting of oil rights to one of President Nazarbayev's relatives, and the disappearance of funds for an airport in Almaty.

Ilya Fomitchev

Ilya Vladimirovich Fomitchev (born 14 August 1982 in Almaty) is a Kazakhstani professional footballer who plays for FC Vostok.

John W. Olsen

In 1991-1992 Olsen held a Fulbright Research and Lecturing Award at Kazakh State University (now al-Farabi Kazakh National University; Əл Фараби атындағы Қазақ Ұлттық Университеті) in Almaty.

Marshrutka

In Almaty, on 3 January 2008, bus fare was increased from 40 tenge to 60 tenge (about 40 cents).

Robert Green

On 6 June 2009 Green made his first England start in their 4–0 win in Almaty against Kazakhstan in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying game.

SCAT Airlines Flight 760

SCAT Airlines Flight 760 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Kokshetau to Almaty, Kazakhstan, that crashed in thick fog near Kyzyltu on 29 January 2013, killing all 16 passengers and 5 crew on board.

Sergei Ostapenko

In 2003, Ostapenko had graduated from FC Almaty (FC Tsesna at that time) football academy and had been starting in the first team since then, before his transfer to FC Tobol in 2007.

Zhenis Kembayev

Zhenis Kembayev (Russian: Кембаев Женис Мухтарович; born on 25 February 1975) is a Professor of Law at the KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.


2017 Winter Universiade

The 2017 Winter Universiade, the XXVIII Winter Universiade, is a multi sport winter event which will take place in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Air Astana

Therefore the airline has been unable to add to its daily service to Frankfurt from Astana, its 6 weekly service to Amsterdam from Atyrau (operated in code share with KLM), and its twice weekly service to London from Almaty.

Alfina Nasyrova

Alfina Nasyrova (born 11 June 1988) is a Kazaki beauty queen who won the national pageant Miss Kazakhstan in 2007 held at the Abai State Kazakh National Opera & Ballet Theatre in Almaty.

Arys, Kazakhstan

Arys is the junction of two important rail lines: Trans-Aral Railway (Orenburg-Arys-Tashkent) and Turkestan-Siberia Railway (Arys-Almaty-Barnaul).

Asia Universal Bank

Presently AUB operates 90 branches in the Kyrgyz Republic and has representative offices in Riga, Latvia, Kiev, Ukraine and Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Baqi Urmançe

From the next twelve years Baqi Urmançe lived in Central Asian cities: Samarqand, Toshkent, Almaty and Balkhash.

Boucheron

The distribution network of Boucheron is made of 34 shops located all over the world (Paris, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Beirut, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okayama, Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Baku, Moscow and Almaty) and over 100 certified retailers.

British Mediterranean Airways

The airline greatly benefited from the franchise arrangement, taking over unprofitable BA mainline services better suited to BMED's lower cost base, to destinations such as Baku, Tehran, Addis Ababa and Almaty.

Coudert Brothers

Additionally, some of the lawyers in Almaty, Kazakhstan and St. Petersburg, Russia went on to be the foundation for new offices for Chadbourne & Parke in those areas.

Dilnaz Akhmadieva

In 1993, she was already performing at the biggest stage of Almaty, the stage of the National Palace named after Lenin.

Janusz Kaleta

Established in June 2003 Conference of Bishops of Kazakhstan currently has five members, among them an Archbishop - Tomasz Peta, also the chairman of the episcopate, a titular archbishop, former bishop of Karaganda, Jan Paul Lenga, Bishop of the Diocese of the Holy Trinity in Almaty José Luís Mumbiela Sierra, and Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Karaganda.

Jeltoqsan

The Almaty events were followed by smaller protests and demonstrations in Shymkent, Pavlodar, Karaganda and Taldykorgan.

An avenue and an institute in Almaty bear his name as well as an avenue in downtown Astana.

Kalmyk people

Further, remains of Buddhist monasteries have been found at Ablaiket near Ust Kamenogorsk and at Talgar, near Almaty, and at Sumbe in the Narynkol region, bordering China.

KIMEP University

KIMEP's campus in south-central Almaty occupied the premises of the former Central Training School of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.

Korday

Buses, passenger vans, and taxis take passengers from the Kyrgyz side of the crossing to Bishkek and from the Kazakh side to the railway junction of Shu, Kazakhstan, while others go directly between Bishkek and Almaty thru the Korday checkpoint.

European route E40, known locally as Highway M-39 (based on the old USSR highway numbering scheme), on its way from Bishkek to Almaty crosses the Chu River at Korday, making Korday border crossing arguably the most important crossing on the Kazakh-Kyrgyz border.

Madina Saduakasova

In 1991 Madina was part of national singing project for young children called Anshi Balapan & participated in a similar competition called Muzikalniy Voyazh where she won twice in 1996 & 1996 in Qyzylorda & Almaty respectively.

Mikhail Lavrentyev

A better understanding of the physics of explosions made it possible to use controlled explosions in construction, the best-known example being the construction of the Medeu Mudflow Control Dam outside of Almaty in Kazakhstan.

Oral Ak Zhol Airport

On November 17, 2011 a Bek Air Fokker 100 operating as flight BEK-2011 from Almaty to Uralsk made an emergency landing in Uralsk after a go-around having a landing gear and cargo door failure alerts.

Salimzhan Nakpaev

After graduating from the Almaty Institution of National Economy with a degree in economics, Nakpaev began his professional life in 1983 as an engineer in the Makat District.

SAPSAN

Based in Almaty International Airport and owned by the same parent company that owns Irtysh Air, the airline leased its aircraft to Irtysh Air to operate 5 domestic routes from Almaty (Kostanay, Karaganda, Oskemen, Kyzylorda and Pavlodar.

Sergey Marchuk

In 1977, Marchuk skated 3:56.65 on the 3,000 m on the fast Medeo rink of Alma-Ata, significantly below Ard Schenk's world record time of 4:08.3.

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Subsequent annual summits of the Shanghai Five group occurred in Almaty (Kazakhstan) in 1998, in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) in 1999, and in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) in 2000.

Spermophilus brevicauda

Brandt's ground squirrel is found from the Lake Zaysan region in eastern Kazakhstan, southwards and westwards along the Tian Shan mountain range to the vicinity of Almaty, on both sides of the Kazakh-Chinese border.

Struan Stevenson

He toured an exhibition of photographs taken in Semipalatinsk by his friend the actress and photographer Kimberley Joseph from the Scottish Parliament, to the European Parliament, the UK Department for International Development, the United Nations headquarters in New York and finally, to Almaty, Astana and Semipalatinsk itself in Kazakhstan.

Taskala

In the center of town is the railway station and there are regular passengers transporting by rail to the old capital of Kazakhstan, the city of Almaty, the capital of Russia, Moscow, and the capital of Ukraine, Kiev.

Vladimir Tomilovsky

They are also part of some private collections around the world: in Irkutsk, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg (Russia), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Paris (France), Athens (Greece), Ashkelon, Ashdod (Israel), Zurich (Switzerland), London (UK), Brno (Czech Republic).

Zhetysu

The province was divided into six districts, the chief towns of which were Verny (the capital), Jarkent, Kopal, Pishpek, Przhevalsk and Sergiopol.