Qaratau
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| State : |
 Kazakhstan
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| Territory : | Shambyl | ||
| Audany: | Talas | ||
| Founded : | 1946 | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 11 ' N , 70 ° 28' E | ||
| Height : | 523 m | ||
| Residents : | 30,403 (Jan. 1, 2020) | ||
| Time zone : | EKST ( UTC + 6 ) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+7) 72644 | ||
| Postal code : | 080800-080803 | ||
| License plate : | 08 (old: H) | ||
| Location in Kazakhstan | |||
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Qaratau ( Kazakh Қаратау - black mountain ; Russian Каратау Karatau ) is a small town in Kazakhstan and the administrative seat of the Talas district in the Shambyl region with about 30,000 inhabitants.
geography
Qaratau is a green oasis on the edge of the steppe and at the foot of the Qaratau . About 10 km away from Qaratau there has been a seismological observation station of the Geophysical Institute in Almaty since December 2001 , which records data for Kazakhstan for the organization of the treaty on the comprehensive ban on nuclear tests under the treaty on the ban on nuclear weapons tests.
history
The history of the city goes back to the establishment of a workers' village called Tschulaktau (Чулактау). German, Greek, Korean and Japanese prisoners of war from other parts of the Soviet Union were deported here in 1946 to mine phosphorite . The amount of mined phosphorite increased over the years, which means that the Tschulaktau settlement continued to grow. In 1963 the place received city rights and was renamed Qaratau. In order to process the phosphorite on site, a chemical industry was established in the city, the products of which were transported on to Jambul .
With the end of the Soviet Union and the independence of Kazakhstan, the economic decline of the place began in the early 1990s. Many of the resident companies ceased operations and the city lost many of its residents who migrated to large cities in search of work. While Qaratau had almost 55,000 inhabitants in its heyday, this number fell to around 28,000 people by the 1999 census. Due to the emigration of the population, many residential buildings were empty. To this day there are micro-districts in the city that are deserted. The descendants of the many prisoners of war who were brought to Qaratau after the Second World War left Kazakhstan and went back to their former countries of origin.
In recent years, the district administration began to take action against the city's decline. As part of a housing program, abandoned houses were renovated. The local authorities managed to sell several multi-storey buildings to construction investors on condition that they be renovated.
population
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| 1959 | 1970 | 1979 | 1989 | 1999 | 2009 |
| 14,569 | 26,962 | 30,908 | 41,825 | 28,281 | 26,639 |
Economy and Infrastructure
The city is located on the connecting route of the Turksib from Taras to Shangatas . To the east of Qaratau is the Tschulaktau mining operation, which belongs to the Kazphosphate company . The company focuses on the extraction and processing of phosphorite.
sons and daughters of the town
- Yevgeny Jarowenko (* 1963), football coach
- Sergei Lukjanenko (* 1968), Russian science fiction and fantasy author
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Численность населения Республики Казахстан по полу в разрезе областей и столицы, столицы, столицы, анколицы, столицы, городоав, областей и столицы, анкония, горойцы, коники, городоав,. ( Excel ; 96 KB) stat.gov.kz, accessed on July 19, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ Seismological observation station of the Geophysical Institute Almaty near Qaratau (English), on www.kndc.kz, accessed May 17, 2007 ( Memento of the original of July 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b МАЛЕНЬКАЯ РОДИНА: ГОРОД КАРАТАУ , accessed on April 9, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1959 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик (кроме РСФСР), их территориальскойхий единид, пусельскойхориальскиныхий хонид, пусельскойхориальскиныхон пул пус пускиальскионох пус пусальс. demoscope.ru, accessed April 9, 2020 (Russian).
- ^ Kazakhstan: Cities and towns. pop-stat.mashke.org, accessed on August 5, 2019.
- ↑ Chulaktau Mining Processing Complex, Karatau Kazphosphate, accessed on April 9, 2020 (English).
