Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan officially the Republic of Kazakhstan is a country in Central Asia. It borders on Russia, China, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and has coastline on the Caspian Sea. The population is 16 million. which approx. 63% are Kazak, the rest odd minority. The country has an area of 2,717,300 km ² and is the world’s ninth largest country. The capital is Astana.
Kazakhstan consists of plains, steppes, taiga (Siberian forest land), steep valleys, ridges, deltas and snow capped mountains and deserts. The country is sparsely populated and the population density is less than six persons per square kilometer. Kazakhstan is ethnically and culturally diverse, partly because of masseforflytninger of several ethnic groups in the country in the Stalin era.
History
For most of its history, the area that constitutes present-day Kazakhstan has been inhabited by nomadic tribes, at least back to 900-number. In 1456 established an independent Khanate, Kazakhstan-Khanate, in the current Kazakhstan, which lasted until the 1731st The Russians began advancing into the Kazakh steppe in the 1700s and by the middle of the 1800s was the whole of Kazakhstan has become part of the Russian Empire. Russians colonized the area in the 1800s as part of the big game against Great Britain. Serfdom in Russia was abolished 1861, after which many Russian and Ukrainian peasants moved into Kazakhstan in areas assigned to them by central government. Kazahkstan was declared 1868 as part of Russian Empire. Kazakhs rebelled against Russian domination several times, including in 1916 where up to 150,000 people were murdered, but where then able to hold against the Red Army until 1920, when the country became part of the Soviet Union.
After completion of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing civil war, the area of Kazakhstan was reorganized several times: first created Kirgiziske ASSR (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) in the Russian RSFSR in 1920, but this reversed its name to Kazakh ASSR in 1925 when the Kazakhs were officially separated from kirgizerne, and the area had been called tidigere Karakirgisiske autonomous region in 1924 was renamed Kirgiziske ASSR. The area’s capital from 1920, Orenburg, was with omnejd ceded by the Republic and served as a Russian oblast; new capital, Alma-Ata, a remote provincial town to the southeast. A severe famine hit the country 1931-1933 and caused a population decline of nearly 4 million to about 2.5 million. Kazakhstan became a Soviet republic, Kazakiske SSR, 5 december 1936th Kazakhstan became the target of several Soviet deportations, especially after the second World War II displaced krimtatarer, Poles, Chechen, Volga Germans and others to the country. Moreover deported several stalintrofaste politicians there after the dictator’s death 1953, including his successor Georgi Malenkov. During the 1900-century the territory of Kazakhstan for several major Soviet projects including Jomfruland plan by Nikita Khrusjtsjov, Baikonur Cosmodrome (the world’s largest and oldest working raketopskydningsbase) and the Semipalatinsk test range, the Soviet Union’s main area for testing nuclear weapons.
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