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7 unusual facts about Karaganda


Aleksandr Kislitsyn

Born in Karaganda, Kislitsyn began playing football with the reserve team of local side FC Shakhter in 2004.

Avalon Historico-Geographical Society

Avalon Historico-Geographical Society is a membership NGO, established in 2004 and based in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

Kazakhmys

The headquarters of its main subsidiary, Kazakhmys Corporation, are located in the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstania

Kazakhstania is mainly flat: only in the east near Karaganda are there mountains and these only rise to 1,565 metres (5,130 feet) in the Tarbagatay Range.

Marina Aitova

Marina Aitova, née Korzhova (born 13 September 1982 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakhstani high jumper.

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.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Steklov

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Steklov (born 3 March 1949 in Karaganda, USSR, now Kazakhstan) is a Russian actor.


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Arkadiy Belinkov

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy and Viktor Shklovsky interceded for him: the execution was replaced by eight years of imprisonment in Karlag (Karaganda Gulag branch).

Jan Paul Lenga

Jan Paul Lenga (born on March 28, 1950, in Horodok, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine) is a former Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Karaganda.

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.


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