Kokshetau

Kokshetau is the place of work of Aqmola Region, northern Kazakhstan. Population: one hundred thirty five,106 2009 Census results 123,389 1999 Census results. Kokshetau turned into based in 1824 with the aid of Russian military as an outpost. The call of the town is of Kazakh foundation actually meaning "a smoky-blue mountain". In 1868 it have become a district middle of Omskaya gubernia inside the Russian Empire. In 1944 Kokchetav have become the administrative center of the newly created Kokchetavskaya Oblast. In 1997 Kokshetau Oblast vicinity changed into liquidated.

In 1999 because of an administrative modifications in the shape of Aqmola and North Kazakhstan regions Kokshetau have become the center of Aqmola Oblast. In late Nineteen Thirties because of the Polish operation of the NKVD - USSR residents of Polish nationality, related countrywide operations, additionally in opposition to Kazakh SSR Germans, given that 1939 many citizens of the Poland's kresy wschodnie have been forcibly settled on this region, and Kokchetav have become the center of the Polish community in Kazakhstan.