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2 unusual facts about Kazakh


Gun Ana

Gun Ana (Turkish: Gün Ana, Kyrgyz: Күн Эне, Kazakh: Күн Ана, Sakha: Күн Ий̃э, Balkar: Кюн Ана, Ottoman: گون آنا) is the common Turkic solar deity, treated as a goddess in the Kazakh and Kyrgyz mythologies.

Kazakh clothing

Kazakh clothing is a style of clothing worn by Kazakh people.


.kz

A minor incident was caused when the right to use the domain name www.borat.kz, the website of Sacha Baron Cohen's Kazakh character, Borat, was suspended.

Alexander Mashkevitch

Mashkevich, Patokh Chodiev, and Alijan Ibragimov form "the Trio," a group of Kazakh businessmen who became billionaires.

Alexandr Kolobnev

In 2012, the International Cycling Union initiated an investigation of Kolobnev and the Kazakh rider Alexandre Vinokourov over allegations brought by the Swiss news magazine L’lllustre and Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

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.

Avalon Historico-Geographical Society

Its main fields of activities include various expeditions in Kazakhstan and abroad, including bicycle ones ("Bronze Ring of Sary-Arka" and "To the Center of Kazakh Land" were among the most important of them), development of ecotourism (Kyzylarai and Ulytau mountain oases mainly) and bicycle infrastructure in Central Kazakhstan, publishing in tourism and travels ("Discovery Kazakhstan" and "Discovery Tajikistan" guide-books).

Ayn

Ghayn (Ғ,ғ), a letter used in the Kazakh, Uzbek, and Azerbaijani alphabets

Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov

Among Kazakh poets translated and adopted by Bakhytzhan are Abay Qunanbayuli, Jambyl Jabayev, Kenen Azerbayev, Shakarim Qudayberdiuli, Magjan Jumabayev and others.

One of the most famous translation – is the Kazakh national epic song Kyz-Zhibek.

Bauyrzhan

Bauyrzhan Momyshuly was an outstanding Kazakh military officer and author.

Bogatyr Access Komir

In September 1996, the national company "JSC Ekibastuzkomir" (and its mine Bogatyr) was privatised by the Kazakh government, the American company Access Industries bought the 70%-property of Bogatyr mine and Stepnoy mine, and the name was changed to Bogatyr Access Komyr, LLP.

Choo Byung-jik

Minister Byung-jik announced on 25 September 2006 that the governments of South Korea and Kazakhstan, represented by Byung-jik and his Kazakh counterpart, agreed to increase cooperation in construction by having South Korean construction companes build roads, railways, airports and ports.

Denmark–Kazakhstan relations

Baltic Beverages Holding bought in 2002, 76% interest in the Kazakh brewery Irbis, and 45 million euros has been invested.

Eagle festival

A smaller festival, the Altai Kazakh Eagle Festival is also held each year in the nearby village of Sagsai in the last week of September.

Ekibastuz

The history of Ekibastuz begins in the 19th century, when Kosym Pshembayev, a native Kazakh who was commissioned by Russian merchants to look for mineral resources in that region, alighted on a coal field southeast of Pavlodar.

Franz Viehböck

After two years of training he was chosen for the mission, and launched on October 2, 1991 together with the Russian cosmonauts Alexander A. Volkov and the Kazakh Toktar Aubakirov in Soyuz TM-13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport.

Ganyushkino

Ganyushkino is in the west of Atyrau and close to the north shore of the Caspian Sea and the Kazakh-Russian border.

Gergely Rudolf

In the first round of the Central-East region they drew in Kazakhstan against FC Shakhter Karagandy 1–1, while in the second leg they beat the Kazakh team by 1–0.

Heinrich Schmidtgal

Heinrich Schmidtgal (Cyrillic: Генрих Шмидтгаль, romanized: Genrikh Shmidtgal; born 20 November 1985 in Esik, Kazakh SSR) is a Kazakh footballer of German descent who currently plays for Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2. Bundesliga.

HiT TV

SuperStar KZ Dnevnik - The video diaries of the finalists from Kazakh version of Pop Idol.

Igor Matić

During his professional career, Matić played with FK Zemun, OFK Beograd and FK Banat Zrenjanin in his country, but also with French SM Caen, Kazakh FC Megasport, and Montenegrin OFK Grbalj and FK Mogren.

Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture

The rest of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture is located entirely within the Ili River Basin, between Borohoro and the main range of Tian Shan.

Jeminay County

The Kazakh settlement across the border is Maykapchigay near Zaysan in East Kazakhstan Province.

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.

Jürgen Prochnow

His most well-known roles internationally have been as the sympathetic submarine captain in Das Boot (1981), Duke Leto Atreides I in Dune (1984), the minor, but important role of Kazakh dictator General Ivan Radek in Air Force One and the antagonist Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II.

Kalamaili Nature Reserve

Founded in 1982, Kalamaili Nature Reserve (KNR, Kalamaili means Black Mountain in Kazakh, simplified Chinese: 卡拉麦里山有蹄类自然保护区) is a nature reserve in Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China, targeting in preserving the wildlife and natural vegetations in the arid steppe ecosystem.

Kazakh alphabets

In the nineteenth century, Ibrahim Altynsarin, a prominent Kazakh educator, first introduced a Cyrillic alphabet for transcribing Kazakh.

Kazakh Khanate

During the reign of Kasym Khan, the territories of the Kazakh Khanate expanded considerably.

Kazakh wine

The earliest evidence of viticulture in Kazakhstan appear during the 7th century AD around Shymkent and in the foot hills of Tian Shan in Almaty Province near the Kazakh-Kyrgyzstan border.

Kazakhstan–United Kingdom relations

Ambassador Idrissov is best known in the West for his criticism of Borat Sagdiyev, the fictional Kazakh journalist and alter ego of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

President Nazarbayev, along with several Kazakh business leaders, met with Evans, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Queen Elizabeth II, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, Lord Mayor John Stuttard and Jean Lemierre, the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in London, England on 21 and 22 November 2006.

Kotyaevka

The opening ceremony of the check point was held in September 2007 and was attended by Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov and his Kazakh counterpart Karim Massimov.

Kuanysh Karakulov

Kuanysh Karakulov (Kazakh: Қуаныш Қарақұлов, 20 June 1977) is a Kazakhstani professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the FC Ordabasy.

Kyz-Zhibek

In 1988 the poem was translated into Russian by Kazakh poet Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov.

Lira Baysetova

Reporters Without Borders reported that, during the previous week, the editor had been the subject of specific threats following an interview she had conducted with Geneva general prosecutor, Bernard Bertossa (on 10 May 2002) concerning the Swiss bank accounts of several top Kazakh officials, including President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Makpal Isabekova

Makpal Isabekova (Kazakh Cyrillic: Мақпал Исабекова) (Russian Cyrillic: Макпал Исабекова) (born February 21, 1984 in Panfilov, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (present Zharkent, Kazakhstan)) is a Kazakh singer who placed sixth in the 2004 edition of SuperStar KZ, the Kazakh version of Pop Idol, shown by Perviy Kanal Evraziya.

Marzahn-Hellersdorf

Although the immigrant minority is relatively small, the borough has a higher concentration of Russian, Kazakh and Vietnamese people as compared to other parts of the city.

Mirjaqip Dulatuli

After his release, Dulatuli regularly contributed to Kazakh language journals Ayqap and Qazaq until 1918 when Qazaq was closed by the Kerensky government.

Mugodzhar Hills

Mugodzhar Hills (Mugojar, Russian: Мугоджары, Мугоджарский хребет (Mugodzhar Range), Kazakh: Mughalzhar, Mugalzhar) is a series of mountain ranges in Aktobe Province (Northwestern Kazakhstan) 275 miles (440 km) long.

Nahum Galmor

In 2002 Galmor took over the Kazakh company Kazphosphate LLC, the largest phosphate producer of the former Soviet Union.

Nurzhan Kermenbayev

Nurzhan Kermenbayev (Kaz:Нұржан Керменбаев) (born February 17, 1989 in Satpayev, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (present Kazakhstan)) is a Kazakh singer who rose to popularity after winning (Contestant NO.360513) SuperStar KZ 3, the Kazakh version of Pop Idol.

Ospan Batyr

Batur is not a surname, it is a Kazakh title meaning "hero".

Qaf

Ka with descender (Қ қ), a Cyrillic letter in the Kazakh, Uzbek, and Abkhaz alphabets

Sitora Farmonova

Nazira falls in love with the main character Iskandar, a young Kazakh ham radio operator and space fanatic calling himself Gagarin, after the Soviet cosmonaut.

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.

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

Throughout the trek, Yedigei recounts his personal history of living in the Sary-Ozek steppes along with pieces of Kazakh folklore.

Trefor Goronwy

After several years spent in Russia, he has recently been working on recordings featuring Tuvan and Kazakh traditional instruments, particularly the igil and kobyz.

Xinyuan

Künes County, or Xinyuan County (新源县), Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang

Yegor Titov

He joined the Kazakh side with his former teammate Andrey Tikhonov.


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