Shchuchinsk (, ''Şuchinsk''; , ) is a city in northern-central

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, located 75 kilometres south-east of

Kokshetau Kokshetau (; , ; rus, Кокшета́у, p=kəkʂɛ'taʊ; ), formerly known as Kokchetav (; ) between 1868 and 1993, is a lakeside city in northern Kazakhstan and the capital of Akmola Region. It stretches along the southern shore of Lak ...

Lake Shchuchye Shchuchye (, ''Shortandy''; ) is a lake in Burabay District, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan. The name of the lake means "pike" in Russian, and it was thus named because of the abundance of this fish in its waters. The lake is part of the Burabay Nati ...

. It is the seat of

Burabay District Burabay District (, ; ) is a district of Aqmola Region in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the town of Shchuchinsk. Population: Prior to September 3, 2009, Burabay District was known as Shchuchinsk District. Geo ...

(form. Shchuchinsk District) in

Akmola Region Akmola Region (, ; ) is a centrally located regions of Kazakhstan, region of Kazakhstan. It was known as Tselinograd Oblast during Soviet Union, Soviet rule. Its capital is Kökşetau. The national capital, Astana, is enclosed by the region, but ...

and is the centre of a large agricultural area.

Geography

Shchuchinsk is located at the feet of the

Kokshetau Massif Kokshetau Mountains () or Kokshetau Massif is a mountain massif in the Akmola Region, Kazakhstan.''Nature of Kazakhstan: Encyclopedia'' / General editor. B. O. Jacob. - Almaty: "Kazakh Encyclopedia" LLP, 2011. T.Z. - 304 pages. ISBN 9965-893-64-0 ...

, in the

Kokshetau Hills The Kokshetau Hills (; ) is a system of mountains of moderate altitude in the North Kazakhstan Region and Akmola Region, Kazakhstan.Kazakh Uplands The Kazakh Uplands or the Kazakh Hummocks, known in Kazakh as the ( , ; ), is a large peneplain formation extending throughout the central and eastern regions of Kazakhstan.

Burabay Burabay (), formerly ''Borovoye'', is a settlement in Burabay District, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of the Burabay rural district (KATO code - 117035100). Population: Burabay is a spa town. The surrounding area is ...

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lies nearby to the northeast.

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Climate

History

Shchuchinsk was founded as a

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settlement called firstly as vyselok Shchuchinskiy in 1850. Several years later it became

stanitsa A stanitsa or stanitza ( ; ), also spelled stanycia ( ) or stanica ( ), was a historical administrative unit of a Cossack host, a type of Cossack polity that existed in the Russian Empire. Etymology The Russian word is the diminutive of the word ...

Shchuchinskaya.

Sport

National Ski Center with two modern olympic

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hills, large (K125) and normal (K90), 16 FIS cross-country ski courses and biathlon stadium has opened in July 2018. Vladimir Smirnov, cross-country skier, Olympic champion 1994 was born in Shchuchinsk.

Nikolay Chebotko Nikolay Sergeyevich Chebotko (, 25 October 1982 – 24 January 2021) was a Kazakhstani cross-country skier who competed from 2000, until his death. His best individual World Cup finish was fourth in a sprint event in Finland in 2013. Chebotko a ...

, cross-country skier, bronze medalist World Ski Championship 2013 was born in Shchuchinsk.

Svetlana Kapanina Svetlana Vladimirovna Kapanina () is a Russian aerobatic pilot. Biography Kapanina was born on 28 December 1968 in Shchuchinsk, Kokchetav Oblast, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (now Akmola R ...

, world women's aerobatic champion, most celebrated woman pilot in history was born in Shchuchinsk.

Sister Cities

Astana Astana is the capital city of Kazakhstan. With a population of 1,423,726 within the city limits, it is the second-largest in the country after Almaty, which had been the capital until 1997. The city lies on the banks of the Ishim (river), Ishim ...

References

Populated places in Akmola Region {{AkmolaRegion-geo-stub