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 Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Akhmet Baitursynov, and Jambyl Jabayev. Almaty has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Almaty is located in Kazakhstan.

Almaty, formerly known as Alma-Ata, is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of over two million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1936, while the country was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union, then from 1936 to 1991, a union republic and finally from 1991, an independent state. In 1997, the government relocated the capital to Akmola. Read more on Wikipedia