Theme Week Kazakhstan – Almaty

24 November 2018 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  13 minutes

Nurly Tau business center in Almaty from the City Hall Park © flickr.com - Alexandru Panoiu/cc-by-2.0

Nurly Tau business center in Almaty from the City Hall Park © flickr.com – Alexandru Panoiu/cc-by-2.0

Almaty (“City of Apples/Apple Trees”), formerly known as Alma-Ata and Verny, is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of 1.8 million people, about 8% of the country’s total population. It served as capital of the Kazakh state in its various forms from 1929 to 1997, under the influence of the then Soviet Union and its appointees. Alma-Ata was the host city for a 1978 international conference on Primary Health Care where the Alma Ata Declaration was adopted, marking a paradigm shift in global public health. In 1997, the government relocated the capital to Astana in the north of the country, which is about 12 hours away by train.   read more…

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