Nur-Sultan, until March 2019 Astana [ Kazakh »capital« ], 1992–98 Aqmola (Akmola, Russian Akmolinsk), 1961–92 Zelinograd, since December 10, 1997 the capital of Kazakhstan, on Ishim, (2019) 1.1 Million residents.
Nursultan is an international educational center with several universities, various colleges and research institutions, numerous museums, theaters. Economic life is determined by trade as well as by the energy and finance industries. Nursultan is an international conference venue. The industry includes agricultural machinery (including tractors), the food and building materials industries. Nursultan is a major transport hub with an international airport.
Nursultan is being expanded as the new capital with a modern high-rise skyline and an efficient infrastructure. So far, government and administrative buildings, technology parks and new residential areas have been built. Sights include: the Water-Green Boulevard with the Bayterek Tower (N. Foster ; 2002), the symbol of the city, and the Transport Tower, the Pyramid of Peace and Unity, the Khan Shatyr Tent, the Nur Astana Mosque (2005), the Concert Hall (2009) and the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Assumption (2010).
History: Founded in 1830 as a Russian fortress, Akmolinsk became a town in 1862. Located at an important traffic junction, it developed into a trading center and was connected to the railway network in 1929. Due to the deportation of Russian Germans to northern Kazakhstan under Stalin in 1941/42, the proportion of the city’s German population rose sharply. During the 1950s, the area developed into a focus of agricultural »land reclamation«. In 1994 what was then Aqmola was nominated as the new capital of Kazakhstan, and in 1998 the government and parliament moved from the former capital Almaty.
The reasons given for the move were: The country should be ruled from the center instead of the southern periphery, the Kazakh presence should be strengthened in the northern, ethnically Russian-dominated regions, the capital should not be endangered by the high frequency of earthquakes (given in the south).
City Profile
- Abbreviation: NS
- Country: Kazakhstan
List of Nur-Sultan Acronyms
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