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Atyrau

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Atyrau till 1991, is a metropolis in Kazakhstan, and the capital of Atyrau Region. It is positioned at the mouth of the Ural River at the Caspian Sea, 2,700 kilometres west of Almaty and 351 kilometres east of the Russian town of Astrakhan. Modern Atyrau is famous for its oil and fish industries. It has 154,one hundred inhabitants, up from 142,500 , 90, the rest being basically Russians and other ethnic businesses including Tatars and Ukrainians. The wooden citadel at the mouth of the Yaik River turned into based in 1645 as Nizhny Yaitzky gorodok by using the Russian trader Gury Nazarov, a native of Yaroslavl, who specialized in change with Khiva and Bukhara.

The citadel was plundered by the Yaik Cossacks, main the Guriev circle of relatives to rebuild it in stone. Tsar Alexis sent a garrison of Streltsy to guard the fortress from Cossack incursions. Despite those efforts, the Cossack insurrection Stepan Razin held the city in 1667 and 1668. The castle steadily misplaced its strategic importance and become demolished in 1810. Between 1708 and 1992 the city become known as Guriev. The Kazakh call Atyray approach 'river delta'.

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