Taldykorgan
Taldykorgan
Талдықорған | |
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  Taldykorgan Location in Kazakhstan | |
| Coordinates: 45°01′0″N 78°22′0″E / 45.01667°N 78.36667°E | |
| Country | Kazakhstan |
| Region | Almaty Region |
| Founded | 1868 |
| City status | 1944 |
| Government | |
| • Akim | Yermek Alpysov |
| Area | |
• City | 74 km2 (29 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 600 m (2,000 ft) |
| Population (2013) | |
• City | 129,960 |
| • Density | 1,184/km2 (3,070/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 146,844 |
| Time zone | UTC+6 (East) |
| Postal code | 040000 - 040012 |
| Area code | 72822 |
| Vehicle registration | B, V, 05 |
| Website | www |
Taldykorgan (Template:Lang-kz, Taldıqorğan), known as Taldy-Kurgan until 1993, is the capital (called an administrative center) of Almaty Region, Kazakhstan. According to the 2010 Kazakh Census Results, the population is 143,407.
Education
Taldykorgan has a diverse educational system, including a university, institutes, institutions, technical training colleges, secondary schools and kindergartens. There are 27 public health facilities, a theater, amusement parks, libraries, a city cinema, stadium, sports complex and swimming pools. All of the facilities have not been maintained since the Soviet era.[1]
Demographics
The ethnic composition of Taldykorgan according to the 2010 Kazakh Census was:[2][3]
| Ethnicity | Population | Percentage of Population |
|---|---|---|
| Kazakhs | 93,156 | 64.96% |
| Russians | 36,532 | 25.47% |
| Koreans | 5,172 | 3.61% |
| Tatars | 2,783 | 1.94% |
| Germans | 1,581 | 1.10% |
| Ukrainians | 1,071 | 0.75% |
| Uyghurs | 962 | 0.67% |
| Chechens | 354 | 0.25% |
| Uzbeks | 302 | 0.21% |
| Belorussians | 177 | 0.12 |
| Azerbaijanis | 130 | 0.09% |
| Poles | 123 | 0.09% |
| Kyrgyz | 102 | 0.07% |
| Other/Unknown | 962 | 0.67% |
| Total | 143,407 | 100% |
Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Taldıqorğan has a hot, dry-summer continental climate. There is more rainfall in winter than in summer. The average annual temperature in Taldıqorğan is 7.7 °C (45.9 °F). About 370 mm (14.57 in) of precipitation falls annually.
| Climate data for Taldıqorğan | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −4.5 (23.9) |
−3.1 (26.4) |
5.0 (41.0) |
16.0 (60.8) |
22.6 (72.7) |
27.2 (81.0) |
29.9 (85.8) |
28.8 (83.8) |
23.5 (74.3) |
14.7 (58.5) |
5.9 (42.6) |
−1.3 (29.7) |
13.7 (56.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −14.7 (5.5) |
−13.6 (7.5) |
−5.1 (22.8) |
3.7 (38.7) |
10.0 (50.0) |
14.5 (58.1) |
16.7 (62.1) |
14.6 (58.3) |
9.0 (48.2) |
2.1 (35.8) |
−5.1 (22.8) |
−10.7 (12.7) |
1.8 (35.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 25 (1.0) |
23 (0.9) |
35 (1.4) |
42 (1.7) |
45 (1.8) |
32 (1.3) |
22 (0.9) |
13 (0.5) |
21 (0.8) |
40 (1.6) |
39 (1.5) |
33 (1.3) |
370 (14.6) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org,Climate data | |||||||||||||
Transport
Taldykorgan Airport services Nur-sultan. Its train station services Central Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Russia, the Baltic States and the People's Republic of China.
Sport
The city has a football club, FC Zhetysu Taldykorgan.[4][5]
Notable residents
 | This article's list of residents may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. (June 2012) |
- Andrei Kivilev (1973 - 2003) - professional bicycle racer.
- Sergey Vodopyanov (born 1987) - Russian amateur boxer, winner gold in bantamweight Class at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships.
- Alibek Buleshev (born 1981) - Kazakh football forward.
- Mirat Sarsembayev (born 1986) - amateur boxer from Kazakhstan, best known for winning the flyweight bronze at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships.
- Victor Sydorenko (born 1953) - painter, curator, teacher, an author of objects and photocompositions and also scientific and publicistic texts, member and the vice-president of Ukrainian Academy of Arts.
- Marian Handwerker (born 1944) film director born in Taldykorgan
Sister cities
References
- ^ http://www.advantour.com/kazakhstan/almaty/taldykorgan.htm retrieved 2007-07-27
- ^ Агентство Республики Казахстан по статистике. Численность населения Республики Казахстан по областям, городам и районам, полу и отдельным возрастным группам, отдельным этносам на начало 2010 года Archived 2013-01-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Национальный состав населения Казахстана по переписи 2009
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-07-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) retrieved 2007-07-27 - ^ https://int.soccerway.com/match/super-league/fc-zhetysu-taldykorgan/fc-irtysh-pavlodar/450289/ retrieved 2007-07-27
Further reading
- Bozdaqtar. Taldyqorghan oblysy, 1995, ISBN 5-89800-067-4
External links
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