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Encyclopedia > Atirau

Atyrau is a city in Kazakhstan. It is the capital of the Atyrau Oblysy. It has just under 200,000 inhabitants.


History

The city was founded in 1645 as a Russian military base. Until 1992 its name was Guriev.


Geography

Atyrau is Kazakhstan's main harbor city on the Caspian Sea at the delta of the Ural River.


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Kazakhstan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4270 words)
Overall the estimate of Kazakhstan's oil deposits is 6.1 billion tons.
However, there are only 3 refineries within the country, situated in Atirau, Pavlodar, and Shymkent.
These are not capable of processing all of the produced crude oil, so most of it is exported to Russia
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