The Grand mosque of Pavlodar

Pavlodar (Павлода́р) is a city in northeastern 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... Kazakhstan, 350km northeast of the country capital Astana, estimated population 500,000 (2003, the city is very fast-growing), has been the capital of Kazakhstan since 1997. Astana, the name it has had since that date, means the Capital. This name has been chosen because it is easily pronounced in many languages (although it is usually mispronounced... Astana, and 350km southeast of The Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches... Russia's Omsk (Омск in Russian), a city in the southwest of Siberia in Russia, capital of the Omsk Oblast. Population rose from 31,000 in 1881 and 53,050 in 1900 to 1,140,200 in 2003. The distance from Omsk to Moscow is 2700 km. In the... Omsk along the Irtysh River (also Ertis) a river in Asia, the chief tributary of the river Ob. It is actually longer than the Ob to their confluence. Irtyshs main affluent is Tobol River. The Ob-Irtysh form a major basin in Asia, encompassing most of Western Siberia and the Altai mountains... Irtysh River. With a population of 330,000, it is the capital of Pavlodar Kazakhstan is divided into 14 oblystar (singular - oblysy) (capitals in parentheses, unless the same as oblysy name): Almaty Oblysy (Taldykorgan) Aqmola (Kokshetau) Aqtöbe Atyrau Batys Qazaqstan (Oral) Mangghystau (Aqtau) Ongtustik Qazaqstan (Shymkent) Pavlodar Qaraghandy Qostanay Qyzylorda Shyghys Qazaqstan (Öskemen) Soltustik Qazaqstan (Petropavlovsk) Zhambyl (Taraz) note: in 1995 the Governments... Oblysy.

History

Pavlodar was founded by Siberian This article needs cleanup. Please edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan of Turkey. Painted by Ilya Repin from 1880 to 1891. Cossack (Polish Kozak; plural, Kozacy, Russian Kazak (Казак); plural, Kazaki (К... cossacks in 1720 as fort Koryakovskiy, named after the nearby lake where salt was mined. It remained a small cossacks' settlement well into the 19th century, focused on salt-mining, and slowly developing mining of lead, copper and silver. The growing trade finally resulted in 1861 in an upgrade to zashtatnyj (districtless) town Pavlodar, meaning the Gift of Paul, in honor of the newly born Prince Pavel Aleksandrovich.

The town was no royal place. Open to the dry, sandy winds of the The steppe of Western Kazakhstan in early spring In physical geography, steppe (from Slavic step) is a plain without trees (apart from those near rivers and lakes); it is similar to a prairie, although a prairie is generally reckoned as being dominated by tall grasses, while short grasses are said... steppes, it was little more than a collection of dusty clay huts and warehouses with no paved streets or central plumbing. Even the little character it had suffered the typical country-wide fate: all of the churches and the mosque's minaret were destroyed during the Soviet anti-religion campaign in the 1930s (one unfinished cathedral survived till 1970s).

In 1955, the Virgin Lands by Fedor Malaev, a romanticised view of the Campaign The Virgin Lands Campaign was an initiative by Nikita Khrushchev to open up vast tracts of unused (virgin) steppe in the northern Kazakh SSR and the Altai region of the Russian SFSR, started in 1954. In the first year... Virgin Lands Campaign gave start to modern Pavlodar. Mass youth immigration, industrialization and rapid construction created a fully-serviced clean new city, though at a price of being a faceless Soviet template.

Since the fall of communism, Pavlodar has seen some character-defining projects, including ethnic festivals, new parks and fountains, churches, grand mosque, Irtysh embankment. As one of independent Kazakhstan's bigger cities, Pavlodar shares in the energy and mineral-exporting profits the country rakes in. Predominantly Russian-speaking, the city is also watched by the government seeking to control the country under one national idea.

External link

| Pavlodar's Portal (http://www.pavlodar.ru)