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Ekibastuz

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Ekıbastūz ( ; ) is a city in Pavlodar Region, northeastern Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of the Ekibastuz City Administration. The population was Ekıbastūz is served by Ekıbastūz Airport.

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Ekibastuz is a city located in northeastern Kazakhstan's Pavlodar Region that serves as the administrative center for its city administration. The city is accessible via Ekibastuz Airport and functions as a regional hub in Kazakhstan.

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Place details

Locality
Екібастұз
Region
Павлодар облысы
Country
Қазақстан
Population
121,470
Timezone
Asia/Almaty

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Air quality

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PM2.5
4.7 µg/m³
PM10
4.8 µg/m³
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Key facts

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Ekibastūz
Settlement.native_name
Екібастұз
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Фотография Экибастуза.png
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A photo of housing and apartments blocks in Ekibastuz
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Ekıbastūz in July 2023
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Ekibastuz_seal.png
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Kazakhstan
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bottom
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280
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Location in Kazakhstan
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Country
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Region
Settlement.subdivision_name
Kazakhstan
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Pavlodar Region
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City administration
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Ekibastuz City Administration
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Founded
Settlement.established_date
1948

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  • History
  • Industry
  • Climate
  • Gulag
  • See also
  • References

Ekıbastūz ( ; ) is a city in Pavlodar Region, northeastern Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of the Ekibastuz City Administration. The population was Ekıbastūz is served by Ekıbastūz Airport.

==History== The history of Ekıbastūz begins in the 19th century, when Kosym Pshembayev, a native Kazakh who was commissioned by Russian merchants to look for mineral resources in that region, alighted on a coal field southeast of Pavlodar. The commercial exploitation of the field started soon after. The field afterwards was sold to a British businessman, Leslie Urquhart. The village of Ekıbastūz was established in 1899, named after the nearby lake of the same name, which means 2 heads of salt in Kazakh (eki 'two' + bas 'head' + tuz 'salt').

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ekibastuz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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