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Qapal
Qapal (), formerly known as ''Kopal'' (), is a village in Aksu District in Jetisu Region of south-eastern Kazakhstan. It is situated on the river Qapal. Until 1921, it was an uyezd center of the Semirechye Oblast. Tamshybulak Spring The Tamshybulak Spring is a large spring on the territory of the village, situated on fertile ground. The water does not freeze in winter and algae grow all year round. The water flows down from the mountains in small drops, so it is called in Kazakh "Tears of the Earth" or "Weeping Spring". The spring is renowned for the beauty and sacred power of its water, which is medicinal: each arm of the spring has its own properties. In one place, the water is believed to benefit eye diseases, in another, those of the stomach, and so on. Many pilgrims and tourists visit because of their belief in the healing properties of the water, which are yet to be confirmed by scientific studies. The first records concerning the medicinal properties of the spring wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qapal (river)
The Qapal (, ''Qapal'') is a river of Almaty Province, south-eastern Kazakhstan. It is a tributary of the Qyzylaghash, which ends in the plains south of Lake Balkhash. The main settlement on the river is the village Qapal Qapal (), formerly known as ''Kopal'' (), is a village in Aksu District in Jetisu Region of south-eastern Kazakhstan. It is situated on the river Qapal. Until 1921, it was an uyezd center of the Semirechye Oblast. Tamshybulak Spring The Tamsh .... Rivers of Kazakhstan {{Kazakhstan-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Atkinson
Lucy Sherrard Atkinson ( Finley; 15 April 1817 – 13 November 1893) was an English explorer and author who travelled throughout Central Asia and Siberia during the mid-19th century. Career Born Lucy Sherrard Finley on 15 April 1817 in Sunderland, Co. Durham, she was the fourth child and eldest daughter among the ten children of Matthew Smith Finley (1778-1847), an East London schoolmaster and his wife, Mary Ann, daughter of William York, perfumer. At the end of the 1830s, she went to Russia, where for eight years she lived in St Petersburg as governess to the daughter of General Mikhail Nikolaevich Muravyev-Vilensky. In 1846, she met Thomas Witlam Atkinson, whom she married in February 1848 in Moscow. Between 1848 and 1853 she accompanied her husband on his travels through Siberia, south to the Kazakh steppes and eastwards as far as Irkutsk and the Chinese border before they returned to Britain in 1858. In his memoirs Sir Francis Galton records that on their return they were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alatau Tamchiboulac Atkinson
Alatau Tamchiboulac Atkinson (November 4, 1848–April 24, 1906) was a member of the House of Representatives for the Republic of Hawaii. He served as Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Territory of Hawaii following annexation to the United States. Appointed Inspector General of Schools for the Kingdom of Hawaii, he served under the administrations of Kalākaua and Liliʻuokalani, and continued in the position under the Provisional Government of Hawaii and the Republic of Hawaii . A journalist and newspaper owner, he is believed to have been one of two authors of satirical works lampooning Walter Murray Gibson cabinet regime under Kalākaua. Atkinson Drive in the Ala Moana area of Honolulu, was named to honor him. Background He was born in the small town of Qapal in the Kazakh steppes of Central Asia, which was then part of the Russian Empire, to British explorers Lucy Atkinson and Thomas Witlam Atkinson, who named him after the famous Tamshybulak Spring in Qapal and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semirechye Oblast
The Semirechyenskaya Oblast () was an oblast (province) of the Russian Empire. It corresponded approximately to most of present-day southeastern Kazakhstan and northeastern Kyrgyzstan. It was created out of the territories of the northern part of the Khanate of Kokand that had been part of the Kazakh Khanate. The name "Semirechye" ("Seven Rivers") itself is the direct Russian translation of the historical region of Jetysu. Its site of government was Verniy (now named Almaty). The Russian government seized the Semirechyenskaya region in 1854 and created the province the same year. It was administered as part of Governor-Generalship of the Steppes (which was known as the Governor-Generalship of the Western Siberia before 1882) between 1854 and 1867 and again between 1882 and 1899, and part of Russian Turkistan between 1867 and 1882 and again between 1899 and 1917. Russian control of the region was recognized by the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881) between Russia and China. On A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Witlam Atkinson
Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799–1861) was an England, English architect, artist and traveller in Siberia and Central Asia. Between 1847 and 1853 he travelled over 40 000 miles through Central Asia and Siberia, much of the time together with his wife Lucy Atkinson, Lucy and son Alatau, who was born during their travels. He also painted and documented his travels in two books that are today regarded as travel classics. His and Lucy's son, Alatau Tamchiboulac Atkinson, born on 4 November 1848 in what is now Eastern Kazakhstan, was named after the famous Tamshybulak Spring in the town of Qapal at the foot of the Dzungarian Alatau, Djungar Alatau mountains. Life He was born in Cawthorne, near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1799. He began to learn his trade at the age of eight, working alongside his father, who was a stonemason at Cannon Hall, home of the Spencer-Stanhope family, Spencer Stanhope family. By the time he was twenty he was a stone-carver, and in that capacity execute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to the China–Kazakhstan border, east, Kyrgyzstan to the Kazakhstan–Kyrgyzstan border, southeast, Uzbekistan to the Kazakhstan–Uzbekistan border, south, and Turkmenistan to the Kazakhstan–Turkmenistan border, southwest, with a coastline along the Caspian Sea. Its capital is Astana, while the largest city and leading cultural and commercial hub is Almaty. Kazakhstan is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, ninth-largest country by land area and the largest landlocked country. Steppe, Hilly plateaus and plains account for nearly half its vast territory, with Upland and lowland, lowlands composing another third; its southern and eastern frontiers are composed of low mountainous regions. Kazakhstan has a population of 20 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is divided into 17 regions (; ; ; ) and 4 cities. The regions are further subdivided into districts of Kazakhstan, districts (; ; ; ). The four cities, Almaty, Baikonur, Shymkent, and the capital city Astana, do not belong to their surrounding regions. Initially there were 14 regions. On 16 March 2022, President of Kazakhstan, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced that three new regions would be created. Abai Region was created from East Kazakhstan Region with its capital in Semey. Ulytau Region was created from Karaganda Region with its capital in Jezkazgan. Jetisu Region was created from Almaty Region with its capital in Taldykorgan; Almaty Region's capital was moved from Taldykorgan to Qonayev. __TOC__ Regions Demographic statistics In 2022, three new regions were created - Abai (from part of East Kazakhstan), Jetisu (from part of Almaty Region) and Ulytau (from part of Karaganda Region). In the following table, the 2009 population totals ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jetisu Region
Jetisu Region (, ; ), formerly spelled Zhetysu Region, is one of the Regions of Kazakhstan. Its administrative center is Taldykorgan. Total area of the region is 118,500 km². Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Kassym-Jomart Kemeluly Tokayev (born 17 May 1953) is a Kazakhstani politician and diplomat who has served as the second president of Kazakhstan since 2019. He previously served as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Prime Minister from 1999 to 2002 ... announced on March 16, 2022, that the region would be created. The area split off from Almaty Region when Tokayev's decree came into force on June 8, 2022. The administrative center of the region is Taldykorgan, and the center of Almaty Region was moved to Qonayev. On June 11, 2022, Beibit Isabayev was appointed as akim of the region. The region's borders roughly correspond to the old Taldykorgan Region which was liquidated in 1997 and merged with Almaty Region. It is named after the historical Zhetysu region of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Kazakhstan
The regions of Kazakhstan are divided into 170 districts (raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is c ...s) (Plural, pl. , ''audandar''; , ''rayony''). The districts are listed below, by region: Abai Region, Abai *Abay District, Abay Oblast, Abay District *Ayagoz District *Beskaragay District *Borodulikha District *Kokpekti District *Tarbagatay District *Urzhar District *Zharma District Akmola Region, Akmola *Akkol District *Arshaly District *Astrakhan District *Atbasar District *Birzhan sal District *Bulandy District *Burabay District *Egindikol District *Ereymentau District *Esil District, Akmola Province, Esil District *Korgalzhyn District *Sandyktau District *Shortandy District *Tselinograd District *Zerendi District *Zhaksy District *Zharkain District Aktobe Region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aksu District (Jetisu Region)
Aksu District (, ) is a district of Jetisu Region in Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the settlement of Zhansugirov Zhansugirov (, romanized: ''Jansügırov'') is a village in Aksu District, Jetisu Region, Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the .... The population of the district according to the 2013 estimate is 40,242. Asku District has 3 villages, 54 settlements, and 15 rural districts, held within a size of 4864.9 mi² (12 600 km²). Part of the district borders Lake Balkhash, and partly occupies Lake Alakol, and the Zhetysu Alatau. References {{coord, 45, 23, 19, N, 79, 30, 08, E, type:adm2nd_source:itwiki, display=title Districts of Kazakhstan Jetisu Region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omsk Time
Omsk Time (OMST) is a time zone in Russia that is six hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+06:00), and 3 hours ahead of Moscow Time (MSK). It is used in Omsk Oblast. History Until 1991, Omsk Time was one of the two time zones used in Soviet Central Asia. In addition to Omsk Oblast in the Russian SFSR, it covered the eastern two thirds of Kazakh SSR, all of Kyrgyz and Tajik SSRs, and eastern Uzbek SSR. This included the city of Omsk and the capitals Alma-Ata (Almaty), Frunze (Bishkek), Dushanbe and Tashkent. For two years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Omsk Oblast remained the only region in Russia in this time zone. The newly independent Central Asian states ceased to observe daylight saving time, while Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in addition "moved west" by adjusting the clocks one hour back. From the 1990s to the 2010s, Russia experienced a countrywide wave of clock shifts towards Moscow. By 2010, all Western Siberia's Moscow+4 regions moved to Moscow+3, merging into Omsk T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uyezd
An uezd (also spelled uyezd or uiezd; rus, уе́зд ( pre-1918: уѣздъ), p=ʊˈjest), or povit in a Ukrainian context () was a type of administrative subdivision of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, the Russian SFSR, and the early Soviet Union, which was in use from the 13th century. For most of Russian history, uezds were a second-level administrative division. By sense, but not by etymology, ''uezd'' approximately corresponds to the English "county". General description Originally describing groups of several volosts, they formed around the most important cities. Uezds were ruled by the appointees (''namestniki'') of a knyaz and, starting from the 17th century, by voyevodas. In 1708, an administrative reform was carried out by Peter the Great, dividing Russia into governorates. The subdivision into uyezds was abolished at that time but was reinstated in 1727, as a result of Catherine I's administrative reform. By the USSR administra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
