The Kazakh Khanate did not always have a unified government.

In 1917 a group of secular nationalists called the Alash Orda Horde of Alash, named for a legendary founder of the Kazakh people, attempted to set up an independent national government – the Alash Autonomy.

A private fund, the People In Need Czech TV Foundation, worked with government authorities between 1995 and 2001 to effect this resettlement in the specific instance of Russian and Kazakh citizens of Czech origin, and had resettled approximately 750 such persons as of 2000.

Transformation of ths small town into the capital of the Kazakh SSR was accelerated by the large-scaled construction of new administrative and government facilities and housing.

It is leased by the Kazakh government to Russia ( currently until 2050 ) and is managed jointly by the Russian Federal Space Agency and the Russian Space Forces.

The government of Kazakhstan has ordered a Kazakh translation of the Harry Potter novels to be made.

Indeed there are accusations that the ethnic group was an invention of the Soviet government to divide the Kazakh population.

They discussed creating a joint venture that would build helicopters, Kazakh government investment in petrochemical businesses in Tatarstan, and constructing a highway to western China that would connect St. Petersburg to Moscow, Kazan, Orenburg, Qizilorda, Shymkent, and Korgas in Xinjiang, China.

According to the Kazakh SSR government, there were two deaths during the riots, including a volunteer police worker and a student.

* City of Kurchatov ( from the site of the East Kazakhstan provincial government ) ( in Kazakh )

In 2006, Kazakh government threatened TengizChevroil with imposing fines.

The joint venture was formed in April 1993, when the Kazakh government granted an exclusive 40-year right to Tengizchevroil ( TCO ) to develop the Tengiz and Korolevskoye oil fields located in the north-eastern reaches of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan.

The next year he fell under political criticism from the Soviet government and was sentenced to exile in the Kazakh SSR ; he worked there at the Kazakh Veterinary-Zootechnical Institute and died of a stroke two years later.

Although primarily the product of independence movement of the Uyghur population living there, the ETR was Turkish-ethnic in character, including Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic Turkish in its government and its population.

30 May, the Kazakh government formally asked Austria to arrest Aliyev for kidnapping and extradite him to Kazakhstan.

In 1996 it purchased Yuzhneftegaz from the Kazakh government, making it one of the largest players in the country.

In October 2007, after negotiations with the Kazakh government, Bruyneel was signed to take over control of the embattled team, which had been kicked out of the 2007 Tour de France for doping violations and was in shambles over its doping connections.

In the Kazakh SSR, some 1, 000 professional hunters killed thousands of the wolves yearly to collect government bounties.

After Kazakhstan gained independence, the city was renamed Shymkent in 1993 as part of the government ’ s campaign to apply Kazakh names to cities.

A 2004 study also established that, during the Bronze / Iron Age period, the majority of the population of Kazakhstan ( part of the Andronovo culture during Bronze Age ), was of west Eurasian origin ( with mtDNA haplogroups such as U, H, HV, T, I and W ), and that prior to the thirteenth to seventh century BC, all Kazakh samples belonged to European lineages.

A 2004 study also established that during the Bronze Age / Iron Age period, the majority of the population of Kazakhstan ( part of the Andronovo culture during Bronze Age ), was of west Eurasian origin ( with mtDNA haplogroups such as U, H, HV, T, I and W ), and that prior to the 13th-7th century BCE, all Kazakh samples belonged to European lineages.

Later, in September 1989, Kolbin was replaced with a Kazakh, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

On September 21, 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.

In September 2010, Kazakhstan launched a state monopoly brand, Zhaik Balyk, from the Kazakh word for the Ural River.

Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva ( ; born 8 September 1975 in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, now Kazakhstan ) is a Russian former tennis player.

On 25 October 2005 it was announced that the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Thai language radio services would end by March 2006 in order to finance the launch of an Arabic and Persian language TV news channel in 2007.

* Nazgul Tazhigulova, a Kazakh bronze medalist at the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships

Daniyal Kenzhetayuly Akhmetov () ( born 15 June 1954 in Pavlodar, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union ) has served as the Minister of Defense and General of the Army of Kazakhstan since Prime Minister Karim Massimov appointed him on 10 January 2007.

Semey (), formerly known as Semipalatinsk (, until 2007 ) and Alash-kala ( Kazakh: Алаш-қала / Alaş-qala, 1917 – 1920 ), is a city in Kazakhstan, in the northeastern province of East Kazakhstan, near the border with Siberia, around north of Almaty, and southeast of the Russian city of Omsk, along the Irtysh River.

On 3 October 2007, the Kazakh environment ministry was reported to be considering imposing fines against TCO for alleged breaches in the way the sulfur is stored.

She had a long marriage to Kazakh businessman and politician Rakhat Aliyev until their divorce in June 2007.

Ballot boxes, Kazakh flag and state seal in an Astana polling place before the 2007 legislative elections.

2007 started promising and the club was one of the teams fighting for the Allsvenskan title until the 18 round, in the game against IFK Göteborg, Finnish goalkeeper Magnus Bahne got injured and missed the rest of the season, Kazakh goalkeeper David Loriya was brought in, but in his seven games Halmstads BK failed to win a single one and in the last game, away against Helsingborgs IF, the club lost with 0-9, the second biggest defeat in the club history ; Halmstads BK ended up in 7th place. 250 px

Until June 2007, Aliyev was married to Dariga Nazarbayeva, the eldest daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

After the permission of President Nazarbayev to Kazakh law enforcement bodies to investigate this criminal case “ without regard for rank ” the ex-Ambassador was accused of abduction and extortion at the end of May 2007.

7 August 2007 a Vienna court rejected a request from Kazakhstan to extradite Aliyev and ruled against extraditing the son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who is wanted on charges of kidnapping.

On Nov. 16, 2011, Kuandyk Turgankulov, head of the Kazakh Central Election Commission, said that use of the Sailau system would be discontinued because voters prefer paper, the political parties do not trust it, and the lack of funds required to update the system.

Traditional embroidery in chain stitch on a Kazakhstan | Kazakh rug, contemporary.

* 1940 – Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh politician, 1st President of Kazakhstan

The Kazakh Khanate was founded in 1465 on the banks of Zhetysu ( literally means seven rivers ) in the south eastern part of present Republic of Kazakhstan by Janybek Khan and Kerey Khan.

In 1936 the territory was made a full Soviet republic, the Kazakh SSR, also called Kazakhstan.

One consequence of the decimation of the nomadic Kazakh population and the in-migration of non-Kazakhs was that by the 1970s Kazakhstan was the only Soviet republic in which the eponymous nationality was a minority in its own republic.

The adjective to describe people or things from Kazakhstan is Kazakh ( though the US State Department uses Kazakhstani ).

The Ural Mountains extend about from the Kara Sea to the Kazakh Steppe along the northern border of Kazakhstan.

Toktar Ongarbayuly Aubakirov (, born on July 27, 1946, in Karaganda, Kazakhstan ) is a retired Kazakh Air Force officer and a former cosmonaut ( Kazakh: ғарышкер ğarışker ).

Toktar Aubakirov was born on July 27, 1946 in Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, which is now Kazakhstan.

He also the first Soviet citizen to go into space without being fully certified as a cosmonaut, as his flight was hurried forward — several commercial international cosmonauts were already booked, but the flight of a Kazakh cosmonaut was part of the Baikonur rental agreement between Kazakhstan and Russia.

Astana ( Russian /, formerly known as Akmola ( Kazakh: Ақмола / Aqmola, until 1998 ), Целиноград / Tselinograd until 1992 ) and Akmolinsk ( Russian: Акмолинск, until 1961 ), has been the capital of Kazakhstan since 1997, and is the country's second largest city ( after Almaty, the former capital ) with an officially estimated population of 708, 794 as of 1 August 2010.

Kazakh is the official state language of Kazakhstan, in which nearly 10 million speakers are reported to live ( based on the CIA World Factbook's estimates for population and percentage of Kazakh speakers ).

Today, Kazakh is written in Cyrillic in Kazakhstan and Mongolia, while the more than one million Kazakh-speakers in China use an Arabic-derived alphabet similar to that used to write Uyghur.

In October 2006, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Kazakhstan, brought up the topic of using the Latin alphabet instead of the Cyrillic alphabet as the official script for Kazakh in Kazakhstan.

* Kazakhstan: Kazakh, Russian

Almaty was the capital of the Kazakh SSR from 1929 to 1991 and of independent Kazakhstan from 1991 to 1997.

From 1936 ( since the formation of the Kazakh SSR ), Alma-Ata was the capital of the first Kazakh SSR, and then it used to be a capital of an independent Kazakhstan.

After the Russian Revolution, a Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union was created, which was eventually split into the Kazakh SSR ( Kazakhstan ), Kyrgyz SSR ( Kyrgyzstan ), Tajik SSR ( Tajikistan ), Turkmen SSR ( Turkmenistan ) and Uzbek SSR ( Uzbekistan ).

One of the greatest dombra players is Kazakh folk musician and composer Kurmangazy, which had a great influence on the development of the Kazakh musical culture, including-music for dombra, his musical composition " Adai " popular in Kazakhstan and abroad.