Karkaraly District (, ) is a

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Karaganda Region Karaganda Region (; ) is a region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Karaganda. The region borders Akmola and Pavlodar Region to the north, Abai Region to the east, Jetisu, Almaty, and Zhambyl Regions to the south, and Kostanay and Ulytau regio ...

in central

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. The administrative center of the district is the town of

Karkaraly Karkaraly (, ''Qarqaraly'') (, ''Karkaralinsk''), also known as Karkaralinsk, is the capital of the Karkaraly District in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan. Permanent settlement in the area began as a Cossack settlement, which evolved into a ...

. As of 2019, the district is home to a population of 36,025 people.

Geography

Karasor Karasor (; ),
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, an

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, is located in the district, north of the

and

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mountain ranges.

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History

The Karkaraly District is home to the Kent Settlement, located in the village of , an archeological digsite which dates back to the

Bronze Age The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...

. Discovered in 1985, the site includes a

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which spans 30

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s, complementary farmland which exceeds 100 hectares in area, a religious building, and furnaces used to make bronze and possibly iron. During the times of the

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, the town of

was home to the Koyandy Fair, one of the largest economic and cultural gatherings in the

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s. Major figures who visited the town during the time of the Russian Empire included Abai Kunanbaev,

Shoqan Walikhanov Shokan Shyngysuly Walikhanov (, ), given name Mukhammed Kanafiya ()Shoqan, his pen-name, later became his official name. (November 1835 – April 10, 1865) was a Kazakh scholar, ethnographer, historian and participant in the Great Game. ...

Mikhail Prishvin Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin (; 4 February 1873 – 16 January 1954) was a Russian and Soviet novelist, prose writer and publicist. Prishvin himself defined his place in literature this way: " Rozanov is the afterword of Russian literature, and I ...

Grigory Potanin Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin (; 4 October 1835 – 6 June 1920) was a Russian botanist, ethnographer, and natural historian. He was an explorer of Inner Asia and was the first to catalogue many of the area's native plants. Potanin was also an ...

, Aleksandr Zatayevich, and

Mukhtar Auezov Mukhtar Omarkhanuli Auezov (, Мұхтар Омарханұлы Әуезов, مۇحتار ومارحانۇلى اۋەزوۆ, ; , ''Mukhtar Omarkhanovich Auezov;'' 28 September 1897 – 27 June 1961) was a Kazakh people, Kazakh writer, a social ...

Demographics

The district reported 36,025 inhabitants as of 2019, of which most were ethnic

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References

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