Üschqongyr
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| State : |
 Kazakhstan
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| Territory : | Almaty | ||
| Audany: | Qarassai | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 23 ' N , 76 ° 37' E | ||
| Residents : | 14,294 (2009) | ||
| Time zone : | EKST ( UTC + 6 ) | ||
| License plate : | 05 (old: B, V) | ||
| Community type: | local community | ||
| Location in Kazakhstan | |||
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Üschqongyr ( Kazakh Үшқоңыр ; Russian spelling Ушконыр Uschkonyr ) is a village with 14,294 inhabitants (2009) in the northwest of the Almaty region in Kazakhstan .
It belongs to the Qarassai audany ( Karassaiski rajon ). Until the 2000s, the place was called Shamalghan (Kazakh Шамалған ) or Shamalgan (Russian Шамалган ), previously also in the spelling Chemolgan (Russian Чемолган ).
Sons and daughters of the church
- Nursultan Nazarbayev , President of Kazakhstan
- Tursun Sultanov , historian