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Definition: Almaty |
AlmatyNoun1. The largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AlmatySynonym: Alma-Ata (n). (additional references) |
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The Russian fort Zailiysky was founded in 1854 at the foot of the Tien Shan mountain range, and renamed one year later as Verny, a name that remained until 1921. In the 1920s, after the completion of the Turkistan-Siberian railroad, Alma-Ata, as it was then known, become a major stopping point along the track.
In 1929, Almaty became the capital of the Kazakh SSR. In late 1991, Almaty became the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a designation it kept until 1998, when the capital was moved to Astana. Almaty, however, remains the largest city in Kazakhstan and the country's major commercial center.
A short bus ride into the Tien Shan mountains brings one to Medeo, a popular tourist destination, with several hotels and an olympic-size skating rink. Almaty is also home to Kazakhstan's premier university, KazGU, the Kazakh Academy of Sciences, and many other educational and government buildings, including the president's residence, built after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
On December 21, 1991, the Charter that ended the Soviet Union creating the Commonwealth of Independent States was signed here.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Almaty."
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Business | It is an annual trade event organized by the ITE group (London) and is held at the Atakent Exhibition Center in Almaty. (references) | |
The private medical sector emerged in 1993. From 1993 to 1999, Almaty City authorities issued 491 licenses for private medical services. (references) | ||
The eighth Kazakhstan International Healthcare Exhibition (KIHE 2001) was held at the Atakent International Exhibition Center (a tax free zone), May 11-14, 2001, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (references) | ||
Children | Kazakhstan | There have been some improvements to facilitate access in Almaty and Astana, such as wheelchair ramps. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Kazakhstan | Of these, 11 are in Almaty. (references) |
Kazakhstan | There are 11 major independent newspapers in Almaty. (references) | |
Economic History | Kazakhstan | Contact the Commercial Service Office in Almaty for more information. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Major cities: Capital--Astana (June 1998); Almaty (former capital), Karaganda, Chimkent. (references) | |
Tajikistan | The embassy can be reached 24 hours a day, by calling either the Dushanbe or Almaty offices. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kazakhstan | In July an army soldier near Almaty hanged himself; his parents alleged that he was beaten repeatedly during his military service. (references) |
Kazakhstan | In April 2000, a man named Bekov died in a hospital from injuries he claimed to have sustained when police in Almaty detained and beat him. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | On May 23, the body of Dilbirim Samsakovaya, director of a charitable Uyghur foundation and a well-known Uyghur community activist was found in a river outside of Almaty. (references) | |
Political Economy | Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan is divided into 14 Oblasts and the two municipal districts of Almaty and Astana. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Two senators are selected by each of the elected assemblies (Maslikhats) of Kazakhstan's 16 principal administrative divisions (14 regions, or Oblasts, plus the cities of Astana and Almaty). (references) | |
Political Rights | Kazakhstan | Political parties wishing to compete for the 10 proportionally allocated seats in the Majilis must be registered by the CEC and regional electoral commissions in two-thirds of the principal administrative jurisdictions (the 14 oblasts, plus the former and new capital cities, Almaty and Astana). (references) |
Trade | Kazakhstan | Banking remains heavily concentrated in Almaty. (references) |
Kazakhstan | For a complete list of goods that are exempted from the labeling requirements, contact the U.S. Commercial Service in Almaty. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | Citibank and Hong Kong Shanghai Bank (HSBC) established subsidiaries in Almaty in 1998. Societe Generale closed its subsidiary in Kazakhstan in early 2001. (references) | |
Travel | Kazakhstan | Otherwise, travelers should expect to spend one full day at the main Almaty OVIR office, located on the corner of Bogenbay Batyr and Masanchi Streets, Registration Department: Tel: 7 (3272) 62-54-62, 63-86-81. Travelers should prepare a written request for registration, which should include full name; citizenship, passport number; duration of stay; address in Kazakhstan; purpose of the trip; and places in Kazakhstan to be visited. (references) |
Women | Kazakhstan | During the year, new domestic violence units opened within the Almaty and Astana police departments. (references) |
Kazakhstan | A women's crisis center in Almaty stated that the Almaty police are very effective when there is a complaint. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Kazakhstan | There is some evidence of Kyrgyz laborers (men and women) being trafficked to Almaty Oblast (just across the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border) to work as laborers in tobacco fields. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
almaty | 118 |
almaty kazakhstan | 25 |
almaty hotel | 23 |
almaty centro en espanol | 5 |
almaty map | 4 |
almaty picture | 4 |
airport almaty | 3 |
almaty girl | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Almaty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 阿拉木圖 . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | almatyay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-m-t-y" | |
-1 letter: malty, tamal. | |
-2 letters: alma, amyl, atma, lama, malt, maya, tala. | |
-3 letters: aal, ala, alt, ama, lam, lat, lay, mat, may, tam, yam. | |
-4 letters: aa, al, am, at, ay, la, ma, my, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-m-t-y" | |
+2 letters: calamity, playmate, tallyman, tympanal. | |
+3 letters: adamantly, admiralty, amatively, amorality, animality, animately, cataclysm, clamantly, cyclamate, maritally, martially, mayoralty, myelomata, palmately, playmates, rampantly. | |
+4 letters: alimentary, ambulatory, amiability, amyloplast, animatedly, antifamily, atomically, autumnally, cataclysms, cyclamates, flamboyant, lamentably, laparotomy, lymphomata, malapertly, materially, maternally, metagalaxy, metastably. | |
+5 letters: abnormality, alkalimetry, amenability, amicability, amyloplasts, autosomally, azimuthally, baptismally, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, condylomata, craftsmanly, declamatory, exclamatory, familiarity, filamentary, flamboyants, gametically, hypothalami, impartially, inanimately, lachrymator, lamellately, magistrally, mailability, maladroitly, malignantly, mandatorily, marginality, materiality, matutinally, mayoralties, metanalyses, metanalysis, paramountly, somatically, statesmanly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6D 61 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. -- .- - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101101 01100001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l m a t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006D 0061 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357879678691 |
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