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2 unusual facts about Karagandy Province


Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve

Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Akmola and Karagandy Provinces of Kazakhstan, located west of the city of Astana.

Terra-3

Terra-3 is a former laser testing centre, located on the Sary Shagan anti-ballistic missile (ABM) testing range in Karagandy Province of Kazakhstan.


Aslan Maskhadov

On 21 September 1951, Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was born in the Karagandy Province of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) of the Soviet Union, in the small village of Shakai, during the mass deportation of the Chechen people ordered in 1944 by Joseph Stalin.


see also

Shet

Shet (Kazakh: Шет ауданы) is a district of Karagandy Province in central Kazakhstan.