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2 unusual facts about Kazakhs


Kazaks

Kazakhs (qazaq), an ethnic group of Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and Turkey

Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov

In 1937-1939, he reconstructed three faces from skulls of the USSR Academy a Sciences - a Papuan, a Kazakh and Khevsur Caucasian, and performed numerous forensic reconstructions for the NKVD.


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1908 bombardment of the Majlis

The 1908 bombardment of the Majlis of Iran took place on 23 June 1908 in Tehran, when the Persian Cossack forces serving the Shah of Persia aided by cannons and Kazak soldiers of the Russian Empire fired artillery and attacked Iranian parliament, the Majles.

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.

Gregory Colbert

Human collaborators include San bushmen, Tsaatan, Lisu, Massai, Chong, Kazakhs, and people from other indigenous tribes around the world.

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.

Kazakh Khanate

Unfortunately the already weakened Kazakhs were once again faced with defeat at Sayram and soon lost many major cities to the Dzungars.

Kentau

In Soviet times, the population of the city was mainly from Russia, the descendants of the repressed: Greeks, Russians, Germans, Koreans, Jews, Chechens, etc., as well as Uzbeks, and majority of population comprising an ethnic Kazakhs.

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.

Lev Gumilev

As an indication of his popularity, the Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev ordered the L. N. Gumilev Eurasian University (Евразийский Национальный университет имени Л. Н. Гумилёва) to be erected just opposite his own palace on the central square of the new Kazakh capital, Astana.

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.

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.


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