MANGISTAU AREA Mangistau region is located

MANGISTAU AREA

Mangistau region is located in southwestern Kazakhstan, east of the Caspian Sea to the plateau Mangyshlak (Mangystau). The Great Silk Road took place in ancient times the lands of Mangistau. nuclear In Mangistau region are "sea gates" Kazakhstan - the city of Aktau, which is also the administrative center of the field. In the city there is a wide selection of hotels, from three to five stars, including the «Renaissance Aktau» , part of the global hotel chain «Marriott» and the hotel "Grand Hotel Victory". Beach season in the city lasted from May to September, the average water temperature is +21 ° C.

Aktau In 1963, Aktau settlement received the status of town. A unique heated oil pipeline is installed here. Galleries of rock carvings from the epoch of the nomads (10 th-2 th century B. C. ) were found on great outcrops in the heart of the peninsula, as well as a necropolis with gravestones decorated by complex ornamentation. Two old underground mosques, built thousands years ago, were found near Ungazy mountain. The most interesting of these mosques is the Shahbagota mosque, because though Islam banned the portrayal of people or their body parts, on the walls of this mosque alongside lotus flowers is the portrayal of a man's palm. The only nuclear power station in the country was built not far from town, along with a desalination plant. Some interesting places: underground mosques (10 th-12 th cc. ), necropolis (9 th-19 th cc. ) on the territory of which there are many stone statues, Beket-Ata necropolis, mausoleums, the excavations of Kuskuduk (an ancient settlement on the territory of Kazakhstan), the territory of the ancient town of Kzyl-Kalda (10 th 12 th cc. ), the town of Fort. Shevchenko (building was begun in the 18 th c. ), Karagie depression, 132 m below sea level and the 3 rd deepest depression in the world, Mangystau desert, and the Caspian Sea.

Fort Shevchenko. Irgiz The friendship between Kazakh and Ukrainian peoples began in the distant past. One of the best examples of this was the life of the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in the Kazakh lands in the middle of the 19 th century. Also, the great Kazakh composer Kurmangazy traveled here and composed the famous kui "Adai". It might be possible that Kurmangazy and Shevchenko met each other. James Abbot, an English traveler in Persia and Afganistan, visited here 10 years before Shevchenko arrived. In the city there is Shevchenko Memorial Museum, local history, ethnographic museums, remains of the fortress, Shevchenko monument. Mass grave of heroes of the Civil War, architectural complex XVI-XX centuries. 31 km from the city - a necropolis Beysenbaev of XVII-XIX centuries.

Zhanaozen City in Mangistau region of Kazakhstan. Established in 1968, is located on a plateau Mangyshlak (Mangistau). There is an airport. From 1968 to 1992, the city was called - New Uzen. Renamed in Zhanaozen on October 7, 1993. In the city on January 1, 2012 122. 1 thousand people live. , Or 17% of the total population of the region. Distance from Aktau to Zhanaozen - 150 km. In Zhanaozen city administration includes the settlement Tenge (with the number of inhabitants 11. 5 thousand people) and village Kyzylsay (3. 5 thousand). National composition of the district - Kazakh, Russians, Ukrainians, Karakalpaks. The population of the city comes at 3 -4 thousand people per year due to migrants, and for the 2000's has grown, according to various sources, and a half to two times. Zhanaozen is a city with one of the most important dynamics of population growth in Kazakhstan.