Karaganda  

Karaganda is the capital of Karaganda Region within the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is the fourth most populous metropolis in Kazakhstan, at the back of Almaty Alma-Ata, Nur-Sultan and Shymkent. Population: 459,778 2009 Census consequences; 436,864 1999 Census results. Karaganda is about 230 km south-east of Kazakhstan's capital Nur-Sultan. In the 1940s as much as 70% of the city's population had been ethnic Germans. Most of the ethnic Germans had been Soviet Volga Germans who were together deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan on Stalin's order when Hitler invaded Soviet-annexed japanese Poland and the Soviet Union proper in 1941.

Until the Fifties, a lot of those deportees were interned in hard work camps, often sincerely because they have been of German descent. The population of Karaganda fell by way of 14% from 1989-1999 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union; it become as soon as Kazakhstan's 2nd-biggest metropolis after Almaty. Over 100,000 humans have seeing that immigrated to Germany. There is also a attention of ethnic Poles within the city.