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The Republic of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is located in the south east central region of the former Soviet

Union. Kazakhstan is bordered to the south from left to right by the

Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan (all formally part of

the Soviet Union) and China.

All information is provided by Compton's 3D World Atlas (1998), unless noted otherwise.


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Map Provided by Lonely Planet.Com


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Area: 1,031,000 sq.miles (2,670,000 sq.km)

Population: 17,110,000

Exchange Rate: ruble 41.19 = US$ 1

Capital: Alma-Ata

Languages: Kazakh, Russian

Religion: 47% Sunni Muslim

44% Russian Orthodox

2% Protestant

7% Other

Life Expectancy: 69.6 years

Population Density: 6 people/sq.km

Birth Rate: 19.8/1000 peopleInfant Mortality: 30/1000 live births

Number of Pigs: 2,445,000

Number of Goats: 684,000

Kazakhstan Statistics


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The Kazakhstan flag is sky

blue with gold embroidering

down the left side.

There is also a gold sun and

eagle in the center.

The Kazakhstan Flag


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Kazak is the Turkish word for "peace." The Kazakh people are descended from a mix of

Mongol and Turkic tribes, and now comprise less than 40 percent of the population.

The Kazakhs declared independence from Russia in 1991.

President Nursulta Nazarbayev is extremely popular, but increasingly authoritarian: he

dissolved Parliament, then won a popular mandate to rule until the end of the year 2000.

Tensions between the Kazakh south and the Russian north have been cited as one

reason for the president's decision to relocate the capital from southern Alma-Ata

(Almaty) to northern, more ethnically mixed Akmola (formerly Tselinograd) in 1997.

Historical Introduction

SPECIAL FACT

In 1933 the Kazakhs slaughtered 24 million sheep and goats, 5 million cattle, and 3

million horses rather than have them put into collective farms as dictated by the Soviet

leader Stalin.


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In 1991, when Kazakhstan gained independence from the Soviet Union, Kazakhs were a minority

in their own country, about 43 percent of the population. The combined population of non-Kazakhs, consisting of Russians, Ukrainians, Germans, Tartars, and Uzbeks, made up the

majority. Most non-Kazakhs arrived in the 1920s and 1930s from Russia.

Russian immigrants known as Virgin Landers came in the 1950s under Soviet leader Nikita

Khrushchev's directive to grow wheat in Kazakhstan. The Kazakh government has taken steps to

ensure that Kazakhs remain in the majority, and that Kazakh culture predominates. Kazakh-tilihas been restored as the official language, and Kazakh schools have reopened. With the rise of

Kazakh nationalism, ethnic tensions have also increased.

Kazakh (Qazaq) 46%, Russian 34.7%, Ukrainian 4.9%, German 3.1%, Uzbek 2.3%, Tatar 1.9%,

other 7.1% (1996)

SPECIAL FACT

Kazakhstan's Cossacks, who are descended from frontier soldiers loyal to the Russian czars,

gained a reputation for their expert handling of horses and for fierceness on the battlefield.

Ethnicity


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Kazakhs Migrating


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Central Asia's largest country is more than one-third lowlands and almost one-half hilly plains

and plateaus; the rest is mountainous. Deserts and semi-deserts cover more than 2/3rds of thecountry.

Temperatures range from more than 100 degrees F. in the summer to MINUS 50 degrees in the

winter.

Wheat and other crops are cultivated in the north; fruit, vegetables and rice grow in the south.

However, most of the farmland is used for grazing. Several large lakes dot the country, whichalso borders the world's largest inland lake, the Caspian Sea. Kazakhstan is rich in mineral

resources including copper, gold, lead, zinc, silver, iron ore, oil, and coal.

SPECIAL FACT

The name Alma-Ata is Kazakh for Father of Apples; the capital city is a major producer of the

fruit.

Geography & Agriculture


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A Vegetable Market In Kazakhstan


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In the 1990s, when Kazakhstan's economy contracted after the breakup of the Soviet Union, a

large percentage of the urban workforce was left without jobs. Kazakhstan's enormous, untappedfossil-fuel reserves are the key to a brighter economic future. Eventual revenues from the oil

industry are expected to exceed $5 billion annually. Despite the potential profits, investors are

discouraged by the fact that oil can reach Western markets only via pipelines through other

former Soviet republics, some of which are politically unstable.

Industrial technology is antiquated, and trade has not been established with markets outside theformer Soviet bloc. The traditional occupations of agriculture and shepherding are still important

in rural areas. About 30 percent of the workforce is agricultural. Before the Soviet breakup,

Kazakhstan produced about a third of the U.S.S.R.'s wheat.

SPECIAL FACT

Kazakhstan was a major site for Soviet defense installations and for the Soviet space exploration

program. The cosmonaut center was located at Baikonur.

Economics & Industry


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A Mausoleum In Kazakhstan


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Facts For The Traveler

Things To Know Before A Work & Witness Trip

If you're not a fan of endless semi-arid steppe and decaying industrial cities, Kazakhstan mayseem bleak as a month old biscuit. And if it sometimes looks like the landscape has suffered from

hundreds of nuclear explosions, well, parts of it have - ever since Russian rocket scientists started

using Kazakhstan as a sandpit in the late 1940s. But any country which uses a headless goat's

carcass as a polo puck obviously has lots to offer.

The chief exceptions to this relentless desolation are the cosmopolitan city of Almaty (you'llnever believe how many ways there are to cook mutton) and the spectacular spurs of the Tian

Shan and Altai mountains on the country's southern and eastern borders. Those who enjoy

remoteness, wide open spaces, long hypnotic train rides and horse sausage will definitely be in

their element.

A proper Kazakh feast involves cooking a whole sheep. Guest are then given the parts of the

head along with speeches and toasting. The one who receives the eyes will always have excellent

vision. The one who receives the tongue will be given gifts of speech. The one who receives the

ears will be better able to discern the words of others.

Information provided by Lonely Planet.comLast Paragraph from MWMS Mission Book


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The Church of the Nazarene

In

Kazakhstan

Missionaries: (1) Rev. & Mrs. Michael Park

W/Children: Young-Min & Chan-Song

(2) Cinda Kammerman

NAZKOM, the compassionate ministries center in Astana (Capitol City) has been important

to outreach in Kazakhstan. They distribute food to the elderly, who are invited to see the

Jesus film and get acquainted.

Missionary Cinda Kammerman teaches English as a foreign language to reach people with

the gospel.

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