The region is located in the north of the central part of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It borders on the west - with Kostanay, in the north - with North Kazakhstan, in the east - with Pavlodar and in the south with Karaganda region. In the oblast 2 cities of regional importance - Kokshetau and Stepnogorsk, 8 cities of regional subordination (Akkol, Atbasar, Derzhavinsk, Erejmentau, Esil, Makinsk, Stepnyak, Shchuchinsk), 17 rural areas, 5 settlements and 660 villages and auls. The territory of the modern Akmola region was mastered by an ancient man in the Acheul-Mousterian period, as evidenced by the finds of archaic stone tools in the upper reaches of the Ishim, the middle reaches of the Sarysu. In the Middle Ages, there were bets of famous khans, such as Abylai Khan, Kasym, Kenesary, who played a big role in the history of the Kazakh people. The administrative center of the region is Kokshetau. The capital of Kazakhstan - Astana, located in its borders, is not part of the region. The region has significant economic potential and natural resources.
738017 people
146219.0 km²
in the west - with Kostanay, in the north - with North Kazakhstan, in the east - with Pavlodar and in the south with Karaganda regions
Kokshetau city 145762 people
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Akkolsky district is an administrative unit in the center of Akmola region. The administrative center is the city of Akkol. It is located in the north-east of the region, to the north of the capital of the country - the city of Astana. The region has explored deposits of gold, granite, rubble and other building materials. The territory of the Akkol district is located within the steppe zone. In the inter-joint spaces, common fescue-wormwood steppes are common. Forests occupy about 50 hectares. There are wolf, fox, badger, korsak, steppe variegated, ground squirrel. In ponds - pike, carp and others. There are factories of reinforced concrete structures, meat and dairy plants, leshozes and others. Most of the population is engaged in agriculture. The main direction is the grain economy.
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The Arshaly district is an administrative unit in the southeast of the Akmola region. The administrative center is the settlement of Arshaly. It is located to the east of the capital of Astana. In the east it borders on the Erementau district. The eastern part is occupied by the low southern spurs of the Erejmentau mountains. The Ishim River flows along the territory of the region with tributaries of Kyzylmola, Olenta. Most small rivers dry up in the summer. Lots of lakes. The largest are Ulken and Kishi Saryob, Balyktykol, Tanakol, Baidaly, Shalkar, Kyzylkol and others. The Arshaly region is located within the dry steppe zone. Here live: wolf, fox, badger, jerboa, ground squirrel; in reservoirs - muskrat; in reed thickets - wild boar; from the birds nest goose, duck, gull, partridge, black grouse, crane, osprey. In Arshalyyn district there is a combine of building materials and structures, a factory of ferroconcrete sleepers, crushed stone and asphalt plants, oil and bakery. On the territory of the Arshaly district, the railways Astana-Karaganda, Astana-Pavlodar, and the road Astana-Karaganda pass.
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Astrakhan district is an administrative unit in the center of Akmola region. The administrative center is the village of Astrakhanka. The Astrakhan region is one of the largest in the region. In the north of the land use the area borders on the lands of the Bulandynsky district, in the northeast with the lands of Akkol district, in the east with the Shortandin and Tselinograd districts, in the south Kurgaldzhinsky and Yegindykolsky, in the west with the Atbasar district. The total area of the area is 737838 ha. The M-36 highway passes through the territory of the district. The main economic activity of the region is agriculture.
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The Atbasar district is an administrative unit in the west of the Akmola region. The administrative center is the city of Atbasar. The Atbasar district is located in the western part of the Akmola region. Its area is 1063 thousand hectares. The territory of the district is occupied by the southern part of the Kokshetau Upland (300-450 m above sea level), the Atbasar Plain and the northern part of the Tenis plain. On the territory of the region there are 12 freshwater lakes; the Ishim, Zhabai, Zhylandy, Terisakkan, Kayrakty, and Shortanbai rivers flow. Grow: feather grass, fescue, wormwood, kermek, sedge, reed, reed. From the animal world live: wolf, fox, hare, ground squirrel, jerboa, muskrat; from the birds are found goose, duck, swan, partridge and others. From Atbasar by rail it is possible to reach without interchange to 110 cities. Total through the station. Atbasar pass 24 fast and passenger trains. Among the furthest points: Adler (3431 km), Kiev (3415 km), St. Petersburg (3170 km).
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Bulandinsky district (until 1997 - Makinsky district) - the administrative unit of the Akmola region. The administrative center is the city of Makinsk. It is located in the center of the region, between Astana and the regional center of Kokshetau. The surface has a slope towards the Ishim River valley. Part of the territory of the district is occupied by the Kokshetau Upland (300-500 m above sea level). The Arshaly river and its tributaries flow along the territory of the region: Konyr, Zholboldy, Kayrakty and others. Large lakes: Shoshkaly, Alakol, Baitobet, Shortandy, Zharlykol, Kyzylmola. In the valley of the rivers grow red feather grass, fescue, wormwood, reeds, tavolga, reed, birch-aspen sprouts, various shrubs. Here live the wolf, fox, hare and others. In the area there are a factory of piston rings, oil-, bakery, woodworking plant. The Almaty-Astana-Petropavlovsk railway and the Astana-Kokshetau highway pass through the territory of the district.
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Burabay district (until 2009 - Shchuchin district) - the administrative unit of the Akmola region. The administrative center is the town of Shchuchinsk. It is located in the north of the region, to the east of the regional center of Kokshetau. It borders on the north with the North-Kazakhstan region. The uniqueness of the natural conditions of the Burabay region in terms of the conditions of the vital activity of the population and the high aesthetic value of the landscapes gives impetus to the development of the tourist cluster and the health industry as independent and promising sectors of the economy. A special tourist value is the Schuchinsko-Borovskaya resort zone.
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Tselinograd district is the administrative unit of the Akmola region of Kazakhstan. The administrative center is the village of Akmol (Malinovka). It is located in the southeast of the Akmola region, where it borders the Karaganda region. The district is surrounded by the city of republican importance - the capital of the country Astana (formerly named Akmolinsk, Tselinograd and Akmola). On the territory of the district there are 28 agricultural enterprises and 216 peasant farms.
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The Yeghindykol District is the administrative unit of the Akmola region. The area is 5,4 thousand km ². The district is divided into 9 rural districts. The administrative center is the village of Egindykol. The most sparsely populated region of Kazakhstan. Raion is located in the central part of the Kazakh melkosopochnika, between the river Ishim and the Tengiz-Kurgaldzhinsky depression. In the south-west it borders on the Karaganda region. Here grow oats, feather grass, wormwood, fescue; on the shores of lakes thickets of reeds and others. The wolf, fox, hare, badger, hamster, muskrat, marmot and others are taking place. The basis of agriculture is the grain economy. The main branches of livestock - cattle, sheep, pigs, horse breeding. On the territory of the district are the motor roads Egindykol - Astrakhanka - Makinsk - Shchuchinsk, Kokshetau - Egindykol, Novocherkassk - Astana. The narrow-gauge railway line Yegindykol - Atbasar connects with the Astana-Kartaly railway line.
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Enbekschild district - administrative unit of Akmola region. The administrative center is the city of Stepnyak. Located in the north-east of the region. ayon borders on the north with Akzharsky, in the east with Ualikhanovsky, in the west with Shchuchin and Bulandynsky, in the south with Akkolsky districts and Stepnogorsk. On December 13, 2017, by the presidential decree, the Enbekshilder district was renamed the Birzhan sal area in honor of the Kazakh akyn, composer Birzhan-sal Kozhagul-uly. The region has in its bowels large reserves of gold, uranium, coal, limestone, iron ore, lead, crushed stone, sand, clay. There are large reserves of uranium, molybdenum, other rare metals - lithium, thallium, niobium, zirconium.
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Erejmentau district is the administrative unit of the Akmola region. The administrative center is the city of Ereimentau. The area of the district is 17.5 thousand km². It is located in the east of Akmola region. In the southeast has a border with the Karaganda region, in the north - with the North-Kazakhstan, and in the east it borders with the Pavlodar region, where the lake Balakeskensor is located. In the bowels there are reserves of gold, antimony, coal, bauxite, granite, limestone. The main tributaries of the Sileti flow from the southwest to the northeast along the territory of the region from the southwest to the northeast are: Aschyliyrk, Akmyrza, Kedey, Shili, and the Olenta River. Many lakes, the largest: Teniz, Sholaksor, Zhaksytuz, Tamsor, Karasor, Ulken and Kishi Sharykty, Korzhynkol. Most of the territory of the Erejmentau district is located in the zone of dark chestnut soils with steppe vegetation (feather grass, fescue, as well as alder, birch, aspen.) The animal world of Ereimentau also differs by a rare variety: the arkhar, the golden eagle and the crane are included in the Red Data Book, very frequent , but not less interesting, the marmot-bobak and the hare-hare. Of interesting plants growing here, it is possible to mention Alder black, quite common for Europe, but very rare for Kazakhstan, a plant. livestock breeding (cattle, sheep, pigs, horses) Gold ore deposits Bestobe and Yoshkiolmes are being developed, Astana-Pavlodar railway, Erejmentau-Aisara railway and Astana-Pavlodar highway pass through the territory of the district.
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Esil district is a district in the Akmola region. The administrative center of the city of Yesil. It is located in the west of Akmola region. Borders in the north with the North-Kazakhstan region, in the west - with the Kostanay region. The Ishim and Kyzyl-su rivers flow through the region. A grave of Kulsary batyr, one of the supporters of Khan Abylai, is located seven kilometers from the modern village of Bulak of Yesil district. This burial place in 1958, the descendant of the batyr in the sixth generation Kaliaskar Rakhimov was installed a memorial stone and an iron fence. In recent years, people from the region, all over Kazakhstan, have come to the grave of Aulie Kulsary, hoping to ease their illnesses and ailments.
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Kokshetau - since 1999 the city is the regional center of the Akmola region. The city is located on the shore of Lake Kopa in the north of the Kokshetau Upland, the foothills of which surround the city from the south and west. The main attraction of Kokshetau is the State National Nature Park "Burabai", and its decoration is 14 excellent lakes among the picturesque mountains covered with dense coniferous forests. The most significant among them in terms of size, beauty and love of tourists is Lake Borovoe. On the territory of Kokshetau there are monuments to honored figures, people of art and famous personalities (Sh. Ualikhanov, VI Lenin, T. Bigeldinov). Within the city there is a railway station and next to it there is a bus station. Also on the outskirts there is Kokshetau International Airport.
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The Korgalzhyn District is the administrative unit of the Akmola region, the administrative center is the village of Korgalzhyn, located in the far south of the region, bordering the Karaganda region.The most sparsely populated region of Kazakhstan.In the region there are 35 species of mammals, birds-260 species, reptiles-5, amphibians- 2. There are 10 species of fish in rivers and lakes: mammals are represented by rodents-marmot-baike, steppe variegated, water-rat, hare and hare.The predatory group consists of 8 species: wolf, fox, corsac, badger, steppe polecat, ermine, weasel, ungulates, saiga, boar, elk, roe deer.There is the most beautiful and rare exotic bird - the pink flamingo.There are 36 km of the highway Astana-Korgalzhyn-Barshino and 34 km Astana-Korgalzhyn-Abay-Egindykol along the territory of the district.
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Sandyktau district (until 1997 - Balkashinsky district) is the administrative unit of the Akmola region. The administrative center is the village of Balkashino. The district is located in the north-western part of the Akmola region, where it has a border with the North-Kazakhstan region. The territory of the district is a plain, permeated from the north to the south by parallel ridges, the main ones of which are Sandyktau and Zhaksy-Ukty. The ridges are granite structures on a Precambrian base. The highest point is 626 m (Bezymyannaya), 12 km east of Balkashino. In the north-north-west of the region is the Zhylandy Range. The Zhabai River flows through the territory of the region with the tributaries of Sarykram, Aschyli and others. There are small fresh lakes - Kabany key, Novonikolskoye, Zhaksy-Zhalgiztau and others.
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Shortandinsky district is the administrative unit of Akmola region of Kazakhstan. The administrative center is Shortandy settlement. It is located in the center of Akmola region, to the north of the capital city of the city of republican value Astana. Through the region there are the Damsa River, Koluton. Steppe zone.
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Stepnogorsk is a city in the Akmola region of Kazakhstan. Ternopil is located 199 km to the north-east from Astana. Until the mid-eighties of the XX century the city was not depicted on maps, the fact of its existence in the open press was indicated by the presence of the football team "Chemist" (Stepnogorsk), who spoke for the Tselinograd region of the Kazakh SSR. Around the city of Stepnogorsk within a radius of six kilometers by a joint archaeological expedition of the Institute of Archeology. AH Morgulan and the Stepnogorsk Museum of Local History in 1997 discovered two stone-age sites (their age 5-6 thousand years ago), four cemeteries and settlements of the Bronze Age (four thousand years ago). In 12 km from Stepnogorsk there is a railway station Aksu Tselinnoy railway, located at the 123-kilometer dead-end branch length of 220 km, limited to the stations Erementau (nodal) and Aisara (deadlock), through which the railway communication with the city. Astana and Pavlodar. Art. Erejmentau is located on the main line: Barnaul, Pavlodar, Astana, Petropavlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Karaganda, Almaty.
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The Zerendi district is the administrative unit of the Akmola region, the administrative center is the village of Zerenda, located in the north of the Akmola region." The district is surrounded by the regional center-the city of Kokshetau. "In the west, north and north-east the region borders on the North Kazakhstan region. the burial ground of the Andronovo culture, and MM Gerasimov carried out a reconstruction of the Andronov man's skull from this burial ground.During the security and rescue operations on the territory of the area, archaeologists investigated in 6014 6 archeological monuments of the Koshkarbai-1 burial ground. It was found 3 bronze items (beads, canines of animals, shells in the form of amulets, etc.) and 8 ceramic vessels. On the barrow No. 5 near the village of Keneskol, at 700 meters at the height of the Chaglinka River at a depth of 50 cm there was found a burial. The human skeleton was in the fetal position - laid on the right side, legs bent at the knees, the head is pressed in the chest. At a depth of 45 cm, three ceramic Andron vessels with an Aryan swastika were found.
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Zhaksy district - administrative unit of Akmola region. The administrative center is the village of Zhaksy. Territory 9.7 square kilometers. The district is located in the central part of the region bordering on the Esil, Zharkain, Atbasar, Sandyktau districts of the Akmola region and the district. G. Musrepov North-Kazakhstan region. The terrain is flat with a small number of melkosopochnik. The water surface is represented by Ishim, r. Tersakan, r. Kayrakty, Lake Belagash, Lake Shunkurkol, Lake Kalmykkol, Lake Shoptykol. There are no forests, there are birch groves, floodplains of the Ishim River are rich in meadows. The animal world is represented mainly by wolves, foxes, steppe corsacs, marmots, wild geese and ducks nest on reservoirs, partridges are found.
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Zharkain district (until 1997 - Derzhavinsky district) - the administrative unit of the Akmola region. The administrative center is the city of Derzhavinsk. It is located in the south-west of the region. In the south and west it borders on the Kostanay region. The area of the territory is 12,100 km². The district is located in the western part of Atbasar and Tenis plains. The relief is shallow, elevated-hilly with absolute heights of 100-500 m, folded by river alluvial deposits. On the territory of the district are the rivers Ishim, Tasty-Taldy, Karynsaldy and their tributaries, as well as many lakes and ponds. Steppe wormwood-feather grass-grass vegetation grows. In places there are islands of woody-shrub vegetation: pine, birch, karagach, in the lower tier of tavolga. Inhabit the wolf, fox, korsak, hare, badger, ferret, steppe jerboa. In the territory of Zharkainsky district, crops are grown (wheat and barley), potatoes and vegetables. Breed cattle, sheep and goats, horses, pigs and birds. The Yesil-Arkalyk railway runs through the territory of the district.
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