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• Nedelin catastrophe
  | caption = The explosion | english_name = The Catastrophe at Baikonur Cosmodrome
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• Kazakhstan Airlines
  ...until 1996, when this role was transferred to [[Air Kazakhstan]] following the disaster of [[Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision|Flight 1907]]. ...Airlines [[Ilyushin Il-76]] in 1994. This aircraft was later destroyed in the [[Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision]].]]
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• Red star
  ...cularly in combination with [[hammer and sickle]]. It has been widely used in [[flag]]s, [[Nation state|state]] [[emblem]]s, [[monument]]s, [[Ornament (a ...labour]]ers, the [[agriculture|agricultural]] workers or [[peasant]]ry and the [[intelligentsia]].
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• Aeroflot Flight 5463
  ...ion = An Aeroflot [[Tu-134A]] in 1983, similar to that involved in the accident. ...convert|36|km|mi nmi|abbr=on}} from [[Alma-Ata]], [[Kazakh SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
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• Aeroflot Flight 4225
  |caption = An Aeroflot Tu-154B-2, similar to the aircraft involved in the accident |site=[[Almaty]], [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic|Kazakh SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
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• Aralkum Desert
  |image_caption = Aralkum with the remaining areas of the Aral Sea in 2014 |map_caption = Animated map of the shrinking of the Aral Sea, and growing Aralkum
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• Mayak
  [[File:Satellite image map of Mayak.jpg|thumb|250px|Satellite image/map of the Mayak nuclear facility.]] ...{cite journal| url=http://www.nrpa.no/dav/1fbb52ea04.pdf | title=Review of the current status and operations at Mayak Production Association | publisher=[
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• Aral Sea
  |caption=The Aral Sea in 1989 (left) and 2014 (right) |inflow = North: [[Syr Darya]]<br>South: [[groundwater]] only<br>(previously the [[Amu Darya]])
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• Public health problems in the Aral Sea region
  ...). Disiccation of the Aral Sea: A Water Management Disaster in the Soviet Union. Science. 241(4870), 1172 & 1175.</ref> ...t extent of these problems can be sourced to this environmental situation. The full effects could take a generation to fully materialize and patterns of h
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• Aral smallpox incident
  ...r Threat; Report Provides New Details of Soviet Smallpox Accident.”, ''[[The New York Times]]''; 15 June issue.</ref> ...lso included numerous other research and operational facilities throughout the country.) Aralsk-7 had a history of association with [[fish kill|mass death
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• Kazakhstan famine of 1932-1933
  ...ic|Kazakhstan]] 1897–1970. The number of Kazakhs and Ukrainans decreased in 1932–1933 due to famine.]] ...tle=The Kazakh Famine of 1930–33 and the Politics of History in the Post-Soviet Space |publisher=Wilson Center |date=2012-03-26 |accessdate=2015-07-09}}</r
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• Kazakh famine of 1919–1922
  ...timates, 400 thousand Kazakhs, amounting 18.5% of the population, died in the famine.{{r|Krasnobaeva_2004}} *[[1921–22 famine in Tatarstan]]
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• Semipalatinsk Test Site
  |caption=[[Joe 1|Operation First Lightning]], the first Soviet [[atomic test]] ...]], as well as [[Karagandy]], and [[Astana]]. The site comprised an area [[the size of Wales]]
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• Leonid Brezhnev
  |caption=Brezhnev in [[East Berlin]] in 1967 |citizenship=[[Soviet people|Soviet]]
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• Environmental issues in Kazakhstan
  ...hese issues are due in large part to Kazakhstan's years under the [[Soviet Union]]. ...act a large zone south of [[Kourchatov]] ([[Курчатов]])) and along the Chinese border.
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• Buran (spacecraft)
  {{Hatnote|This article is about the orbiter launched in 1988. For the Soviet/Russian reusable space program, see [[Buran programme]].}} | caption = Orbiter 1K1 at an airshow at [[Le Bourget]] in 1989
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• Collective Security Treaty Organization
  |image = Emblem of the CSTO.svg ...as a military alliance. Uzbekistan rejoined the CSTO in 2006 but withdrew in 2012.
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