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The Shulbinsk: Acquired by AES in 1997, Shulbinsk is a 702 MW plant that runs off Hydroelectricity. It is located in Semey. [citation needed] Ust- Kamenogorsk HPP: Located on the Irtysch River near Ust-Kamengorsk in the East Kazakhstan Region, and purchased by AES in 1997. This is a hydroelectric plant that operates using 4 individual turbines ...
Kazakhstan oil, gas, coal and uranium reserves are among the ten biggest in the world. Uranium. Kazakhstan is the number one country in the world for uranium production volumes, and it owns the world second biggest uranium reserves after Australia (around 1.5 million tons or nearly 19% of the explored reserves of uranium in the world).
East Kazakhstan Region ( Kazakh: Шығыс Қазақстан облысы, romanized: Şyğys Qazaqstan oblysy; Russian: Восточно-Казахстанская область, romanized : Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan. It occupies the easternmost part of Kazakhstan, and includes parts of the Irtysh River ...
Astana, [a], formerly known as Nur-Sultan [b] is the capital city of Kazakhstan . The city lies on the banks of the Ishim River in the north-central part of Kazakhstan, within the Akmola Region, though administered as a city with special status separately from the rest of the region. A 2022 official estimate reported a population of 1,350,228 ...
Kazakhstan was the last Soviet republic to declare independence during the dissolution of the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991. Kazakhstan dominates Central Asia economically and politically, accounting for 60 percent of the region's GDP, primarily through its oil and gas industry; it also has vast mineral resources.
The former capital, Almaty, is particularly threatened, in part because of the postindependence boom in private automobile ownership. The gravest environmental threat to Kazakhstan comes from radiation, especially in the Semey (Semipalatinsk) region of the northeast, where the Soviet Union tested almost 500 nuclear weapons, 116 of them above ...
Three cities, Almaty, Shymkent, and the capital city Astana, do not belong to their surrounding regions. On 16 March 2022, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced that three new regions would be created. Abai Region was created from East Kazakhstan Region with its capital in Semey.
Rank Region GDP (mil. KZT) GDP (mil. US$) GDP per capita (KZT) GDP per capita (US$) 1 Almaty 19,154,537 41,485 8,985,600 19,461 2 Atyrau Region: 13,725,400