Ekibastuz

Ekibastuz is a town in Pavlodar Region, northeastern Kazakhstan. The populace was 125,012. Ekibastuz is served via Ekibastuz Airport. The history of Ekibastuz begins in the 19th century, when Kosym Pshembayev, a local Kazakh who turned into commissioned by means of Russian merchants to search for mineral assets in that location, alighted on a coal area southeast of Pavlodar. The industrial exploitation of the sector started out quickly after. The area afterwards became bought to a British businessman, Leslie Urquhart.

The railway connection was built and the village Ekibastuz was hooked up in 1899, named after the close by lake of the equal name, this means that '-headed lake' in Kazakh. The revolution inside the Russian Empire, in addition to two World Wars, distracted the eye of the nation from the exploitation of the sphere. The village was totally deserted. However, in 1948 the first team commenced construction of the future city. The borders of the destiny open-cast coal fields had been also marked at that point.