Almaty (kaz)

Almaty

Almaty ranks 470th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Grenoble, Setagaya, and Ufa. Memorable people born in Almaty include Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and Dinmukhamed Kunaev. Memorable people who died in Almaty include Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov, Sergey Belyayev, and Saken Seifullin. Almaty has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Almaty is located in Kazakhstan.

Almaty, formerly Alma-Ata, is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population exceeding two million residents within its metropolitan area. Located in the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains in southern Kazakhstan, near the border with Kyrgyzstan, Almaty stands as a pivotal center of culture, commerce, finance and innovation. The city is nestled at an elevation of 700–900 metres, with the Big Almaty and Small Almaty rivers running through it, originating from the surrounding mountains and flowing into the plains. Almaty is the second-largest city in Central Asia and the fourth-largest in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Read more on Wikipedia