Karagandy

Karaganda or Qaraghandy is the capital of Karaganda Region inside the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is the fourth maximum populous town in Kazakhstan, at the back of Almaty, Nur-Sultan and Shymkent. Karaganda is about 230 km south-east of Kazakhstan's capital Nur-Sultan. In the Nineteen Forties up to 70% of the metropolis's population have been ethnic Germans. Most of the ethnic Germans had been Soviet Volga Germans who have been together deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan on Stalin's order while Hitler invaded Soviet-annexed japanese Poland and the Soviet Union proper in 1941.

Until the Fifties, a lot of these deportees have been interned in exertions camps, regularly sincerely because they were of German descent. The populace of Karaganda fell by means of 14% from 1989-1999 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union; it turned into as soon as Kazakhstan's 2d-largest metropolis after Almaty. Over one hundred,000 people have on account that emigrated to Germany. There is also a awareness of ethnic Poles inside the town. Karaganda is the house metropolis of Kazakh World War II hero Nurken Abdirov. A statue in Abdirov's honor is within the center of the metropolis.