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  • ...s/baikonur-cosmodrome}}</ref> All manned Russian spaceflights are launched from Baikonur.<ref name=NASA/> ...l satellite, and [[Vostok 1]], the first manned spaceflight, were launched from Baikonur. The launch pad used for both missions was renamed [[Gagarin's Sta
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  • ...e=Orak Balga (in the contemporary [[Zhualy District]]), [[Syr-Darya Oblast|Syr-Darya Region]], [[Turkestan Krai|Turkestan Province]], [[Russian Empire]] [[People's Hero of Kazakhstan]]<br/>{{nobr|[[Order of the Red Banner of Labour]]}}<b
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  • ...[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uz.html#People CIA estimates] this share declined to 3% in 1996. Official Uzbekistan estim | related =[[Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz]], [[Karakalpaks]], [[Nogais]], [[Turkic peoples]] and [[Naimans]] o
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  • ==Notable people== [[Category:Syr-Darya Oblast]]
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  • ...ople|Sogdians]]. It was destroyed several times: by Genghis Khan, soldiers from the southern Khanates, and by nomad attacks. In the early 19th century it b There was a [[gulag]] located near Shymkent, and many Russian-speaking people came to the area via imprisonment.<ref>The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956:
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  • ..., capital of [[Kyzylorda Region]] and former capital of the [[Kazak ASSR]] from 1925 to 1929. ...he capital of the [[Kazak ASSR]]. The name literally means ''a red city'', from the Turkic "кзыл" (''red''; used here in the common Soviet ideological
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  • ...0|E|}} is a small city in south-western [[Kazakhstan]], located in the ''[[oblast]]'' (region) of [[Kyzylorda Region|Kyzylorda]]. It serves as the administra ...8, Aralsk and the Aralsky district became a part of newly formed Kzyl-Orda oblast of Kazakh SSR and turned into the town.
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  • ...r with [[Kyrgyzstan]]. It had a population of 330,100 (1999 Census), up 9% from 1989, making it one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, after [[A ...(1985). ''Journey to the West in the Great Tang Dynasty''. Xi'an: Shaanxi People's Press. p. 27</ref> The [[Talas alphabet]], a variant of the Turkic "runif
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  • ...k in [[Syr-Darya Oblast]] (now [[Kazaly]] in [[Kazakhstan]]). He graduated from Nikolayev cavalry School, and Nikolayev Engineering Institute, now [[Milita ...the [[Red Army]]. Semyonov refused despite a significant diplomatic effort from Governor [[Vasile Balabanov]] claiming he was governor only since the provi
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  • ...1896|death_date = 13 February 1987|birth_place = [[Zhosaly]], [[Syr-Darya Oblast]], [[Russian Empire]]|death_place = Zhosaly, [[Karmakshy District]], [[Kyzy ...akhstan's Kyzylorda Region). His family were peasants. Komekbaev graduated from the village school. After graduation, he worked in a coal warehouse.<ref na
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  • ...the region, on its way to the [[Aral Sea]]. Also, an [[oil pipeline]] runs from [[Turkmenabat]], Turkmenistan to [[Omsk]], [[Russia]] (where it connects wi ...t children are commonplace. The other is the exodus of cheap migrant labor from northern Uzbekistan. These migrant workers sometimes become full-fledged im
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  • |image = Caspian Sea from orbit.jpg ...ar=2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title =ESA: Observing the Earth – Earth from Space: The southern Caspian Sea |publisher = ESA.int|url = http://www.esa.i
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  • ...ters") in [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]] and Persian, to the rivers which flow from the south-east into [[Lake Balkhash]]. ...aty Province]], which is part of [[Kazakhstan]]. However, the [[Semirechye Oblast]], as an administrative unit of the [[Russian Empire]], included not only Z
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  • ...x Karta Syr Darinskoj oblast 72.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Map of the Syr-Darya Oblast in 1872]] '''Syr-Darya Oblast''' ({{lang-ru|Сырдарьинская область}}; 1867–1897) was
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  • ...[[Syr-Darya Oblast]] to the south, [[Turgay Oblast (Russian Empire)|Turgay Oblast]] to the southwest and [[Orenburg Governorate]] to the northwest. As of 1897, 682,608 people populated the oblast. [[Kazakhs]] constituted the majority of the population. Significant minori
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  • ...[Khanate of Kokand|Kokand]] <br> [[Turkmens|Turkmen]] tribes <br> [[Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz]] tribes <br> [[File:Flag of Afghanistan pre-1901.svg|border|23px]] ...forts along the northern border of Kyrgyzstan. 1864-1868 they moved south from Kyrgyzstan, captured Tashkent and Samarkand and dominated the Khanates of K
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