Satbayev ( kz, Сәтбаев, ساتباەۆ, translit=Sätbaev), until 1990 Nikolsk, is a city in

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

Karaganda Region Karaganda Region ( kk, Qarağandy oblysy; russian: Карагандинская область, translit=Karagandinskaja oblast′), also spelled Qaraghandy Region, is a region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Karaganda. On 17 March 2022 it was a ...

. The city is named after Kanysh Satbayev, one of the founders of Soviet metallogeny, principal advocate and the first president of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences. As of 2019, the city has population of 69,782.Численность населения Республики Казахстан по отдельным этносам на начало 2019 года
Комитет по статистике Министерства национальной экономики Республики Казахстан.

History

The place was originally established in 1954 for miners from Jezkazgan. Later, in 1956, it was renamed to Nikolsk. In 1973, Nikolsk received town status. The city got its status by huge exploration work initiated by Kanysh Imantayevich Satpayev, it was given the name Satpayev after him on September 13, 1990. Satbayev is the center of the mining industry.

Transportation

Passenger-train service is provided on the train line between

Almaty Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1936 as an autonomous republic as part of ...

and

Zhezkazgan Jezkazgan, or Zhezkazgan ( kk, Жезқазған, translit=Jezqazğan ), formerly known as Dzhezkazgan (russian: Джезказган) until 1992, is a city and the administrative centre of Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan, on a reservoir of the Kar ...

, a city some twenty kilometers away. Air traffic is served by the nearby Zhezkazgan Airport.

References

Cities and towns in Kazakhstan Populated places in Karaganda Region Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union {{Kazakhstan-geo-stub