FC Kairat Almaty is a Kazhakstani football club, playing in the capital, Almaty. Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан, Qazaqstan; Russian: Казахстан, Kazakhstán), also spelled Kazakstan, is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Asia and a former republic of the now extinct USSR. A portion of its territory west of the Ural River is located in eastern-most Europe. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Landsat satellite photo of Almaty Almaty (Алматы; formerly known as Alma-Ata, also Verny, Vyernyi (Верный) in Imperial Russia) is the biggest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of over 1,300,000 (9% of the population of Kazakhstan) citizens. ...