The province is administratively divided into seventeen districts and the cities of Kokshetau and Stepnogorsk.
At the Stepnogorsk mining and chemical complex, which was Kazatomprom’s main production enterprise, plans called for increasing production by expanding the volumes of uranium production in Mining Group No. 1, further developing the Vostok field, and completing development of the Zvezdnoye field.
The facility was built in 1982, ten kilometers from Stepnogorsk, Kazakhstan, in the wake of the accident at Sverdlovsk.