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Cities and towns in Kazakhstan

  • SemeyIn 1718, Russian forces constructed a wooden fort beside the Irtysh River. They built it near the ruins of an ancient Buddhist monastery where seven…
  • AlmatyOn the 4th of February 1854, Russian engineers began constructing a wooden palisade called Fort Zailiyskoe between the Bolshaya and Malenkaya Almatinka…