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  1. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan with the correct year: Following the ______ Russian Revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War, it became an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within theā€¦
  2. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan with the correct year: Kazakhstan was the last constituent republic of the Soviet Union to declare independence in ______ during its dissolution.
  3. Complete the sentence about Lake Balkhash with the correct year: Beginning in ______, the lake marked the northwesternmost limit of Qing suzerainty as recognized by the Qing and Russians.
  4. Complete the sentence about Lake Balkhash with the correct year: In ______, the lake and its neighboring area were ceded to the Russian Empire under the Treaty of Tarbagatai.
  5. Complete the sentence about Lake Balkhash with the correct year: With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in ______, the lake became part of Kazakhstan.
  6. Complete the sentence about Lake Zaysan with the correct year: Timur launched a military expedition to the lake and the Black Irtysh in ______ in pursuit of the Moghul khan Qumaruddin Dughlat.
  7. Complete the sentence about Lake Zaysan with the correct year: In ______ he was driven back downriver by the Oirats, who had established the Zunghar Khanate in the region.
  8. Complete the sentence about Lake Tengiz with the correct year: On 16 October ______, the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 23 unintentionally splashed down into the northern part of the lake, which was frozenā€¦
  9. Complete the sentence about Lake Kaindy with the correct year: The lake was formed as the result of a major limestone landslide triggered by the ______ Kebin earthquake forming a natural dam.
  10. Complete the sentence about Charyn Canyon with the correct year: The Canyon of Temirlik River within a band of foothills of a mountain river Charyn included in a protected area of Saranskiy National Pā€¦
  11. Complete the sentence about Altai Mountains with the correct year: After this part of the valley was annexed to Russia in ______, it was rapidly colonized.
  12. Complete the sentence about Tian Shan with the correct year: At the ______ Conference on World Heritage, the eastern portion of Tian Shan in western China's Xinjiang Region was listed as a World Heritā€¦
  13. Complete the sentence about Tian Shan with the correct year: The western portion in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan was then listed in ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Tian Shan with the correct year: The Tian Shan's glaciers are rapidly receding, losing 27% or 5.4 billion tons of ice since ______ā€” nearly four times the global average ofā€¦
  15. Complete the sentence about Khan Tengri with the correct year: Anatoli Boukreev achieved the first solo speed ascent in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Khan Tengri with the correct year: Austrian mountaineer and expedition leader Toni DĆ¼rnberger died while descending after having climbed Khan Tengri on August 17, ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Khan Tengri with the correct year: In ______, more than a dozen mountaineers were killed in a large avalanche on the Pogrebetsky route, the most popular route on the mountaā€¦
  18. Complete the sentence about Irtysh with the correct year: The last bridge downstream on the Irtysh, a highway bridge opened in ______, is at Khanty-Mansiysk, right before the river's confluence with tā€¦
  19. Complete the sentence about Irtysh with the correct year: The Battle of Irtysh River took place in ______ between the Mongol Empire and an alliance of Merkit and Naimans near where Bukhtarma river becā€¦
  20. Complete the sentence about Irtysh with the correct year: In the north-east of Irtysh, there was the Yenisei Kingdom, ruled by the Melig family from the Ɩgedei dynasty of the Yuan dynasty, which ruledā€¦
  21. Complete the sentence about Syr Darya with the correct year: After the ______ fall of the Soviet Union, this system disintegrated and the Central Asian nations have failed to reinstate it.
  22. Complete the sentence about Ural River with the correct year: In later European texts it is sometimes mentioned as Rhymnus fluvius and in the Russian chronicle of ______ as Yaik.
  23. Complete the sentence about Ural River with the correct year: The river was renamed Ural in the Russian language in ______, by Catherine II of Russia.
  24. Complete the sentence about Ural River with the correct year: Until ______, an uchug was set up in the summer and autumn near Uralsk, so that the fish would not go upstream beyond the Cossacks' land.
  25. Complete the sentence about Tobol with the correct year: In ______ the khan was killed in a battle with the forces of Abu'l-Khayr Khan at the Battle of Tobol.
  26. Complete the sentence about Kyzylkum with the correct year: Kyzylkum Nature Reserve in Bukhara Region was established in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Mangyshlak Peninsula with the correct year: In ______, in response to the aforementioned reforms, the Adai rebellion took place on the Mangyshlak peninsula.
  28. Complete the sentence about Mangyshlak Peninsula with the correct year: In August ______, at the request of Kazakh activists, Mangyshlak was transferred to the Kazakh ASSR.
  29. Complete the sentence about Mangystau Region with the correct year: In ______ a struggle between Kutb al-Din Muhammad, Khwarezm governor of Seljuks and Tugrul Tehghin occurred.
  30. Complete the sentence about Mangystau Region with the correct year: In ______, Anusha Khan who was the khan of Khiva asked the Russian government to build a fortress to protect the peninsula for securā€¦
  31. Complete the sentence about Altyn-Emel National Park with the correct year: The park was founded on 10 April ______, with the objective to preserve a natural park complex, as well as archaeological anā€¦
  32. Complete the sentence about Bayanaul National Park with the correct year: Established in ______, it is Kazakhstan's first national park.
  33. Complete the sentence about Burabay National Park with the correct year: The Burabay National Park has a rich history, starting with the establishment of a state forest in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Burabay National Park with the correct year: The first step towards the protection of this natural space was the establishment of the State Forest in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Burabay National Park with the correct year: In ______, Burabay was nationalized and declared a spa town of national importance.
  36. Complete the sentence about Burabay National Park with the correct year: In ______, the "National Nature Reserve of Burabay" was organized.
  37. Complete the sentence about Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve with the correct year: In ______ Tengis - Korgalzhyn lakes have been included in the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance.
  38. Complete the sentence about Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve with the correct year: In ______ Korgalzhyn State Nature as part of the nomination "Saryarka- Steppe and Lake of Northern Kazakhstan" is includedā€¦
  39. Complete the sentence about Baiterek with the correct year: A tourist attraction popular with foreign visitors and Kazakhs, it is emblematic of the city, which became capital of the country in ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Baiterek with the correct year: The project was commissioned in ______ and realised by the Kazakh architect Akmurza Rustembekov.
  41. Complete the sentence about Shymbulak with the correct year: Starting from ______, Shymbulak hosted several USSR Championships and the Silver Edelweisse prize skiing competitions.
  42. Complete the sentence about Shymbulak with the correct year: In ______ it became the Olympic ski training center for the USSR.
  43. Complete the sentence about Shymbulak with the correct year: In ______ the school of alpine skiing and snowboarding "Shymbulak" was opened.
  44. Complete the sentence about Almaty Region with the correct year: Alma-Ata Region, the predecessor of today's Almaty Region, was created from the historical region of Zhetysu on March 10, ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Almaty Region with the correct year: In April ______ the administrative center of Almaty Region was moved from Almaty to Taldyqorğan.
  46. Complete the sentence about Almaty Region with the correct year: Almaty region was formed on March 10, ______ with a center in the city of Almaty.
  47. Complete the sentence about Almaty Region with the correct year: In March ______, Taldy-Kurgan Region was allocated from its structure, to which 11 districts were transferred.
  48. Complete the sentence about Aktobe Region with the correct year: The region was formed as a result of the administrativeā€“territorial reform on March 10, ______ as part of the Kazakh Autonomous Sovietā€¦
  49. Complete the sentence about Karaganda Region with the correct year: The first took place in ______ when it was ceded parts of Kustanay Oblast and parts of Taldy-Kurgan Oblast.
  50. Complete the sentence about Karaganda Region with the correct year: In ______, Dzhezkazgan Oblast was split off from Karaganda Oblast making it a fraction of the size it once was.
  51. Complete the sentence about Karaganda Region with the correct year: In ______, Karaganda Oblast was given the southern part of Tselinograd Oblast as part of another set of border reforms taking placeā€¦
  52. Complete the sentence about Kyzylorda Region with the correct year: Qyzylorda Region, formerly known as Kyzyl-Orda Region until ______, is a region of Kazakhstan.
  53. Complete the sentence about North Kazakhstan Region with the correct year: The North Kazakhstan region was officially formed from the northern regions of the Karaganda region and the Karkaralinsky disā€¦
  54. Complete the sentence about North Kazakhstan Region with the correct year: In ______, the city of Stepnyak and 11 southern districts were ceded to the newly formed Akmola region.
  55. Complete the sentence about North Kazakhstan Region with the correct year: In ______, the North Kazakhstan region was awarded the Order of Lenin.
  56. Complete the sentence about Jambyl Region with the correct year: Jambyl Region, formerly named Dzhambul Region until ______, is a region of Kazakhstan.
  57. Complete the sentence about Saiga antelope with the correct year: The scientific name Capra tatarica was coined by Carl Linnaeus in ______ in the 12th edition of Systema Naturae.
  58. Complete the sentence about Saiga antelope with the correct year: In ______, American paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson classified both in the tribe Saigini under the same subfamily, Caprinae.
  59. Complete the sentence about Saiga antelope with the correct year: A ______ study revealed that a steep decline has occurred in the genetic variability of the saiga since the late Pleistocene-Holoceneā€¦
  60. Complete the sentence about Snow leopard with the correct year: The genus name Uncia was proposed by John Edward Gray in ______ for Asian cats with a long and thick tail.
  61. Complete the sentence about Snow leopard with the correct year: Felis irbis was proposed by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in ______, based on a skin of a female snow leopard collected in the Altai Mouā€¦
  62. Complete the sentence about Snow leopard with the correct year: Felis uncioides was proposed by Thomas Horsfield in ______ based on a snow leopard skin from Nepal in the collection of the Museum of thā€¦
  63. Complete the sentence about Snow leopard with the correct year: Uncia uncia was the scientific name used by Reginald Innes Pocock in ______ to denote the species when he reviewed skins and skulls of vā€¦
  64. Complete the sentence about Przewalski's horse with the correct year: Przewalski's horse was formally described as a novel species in ______ by Ivan Semyonovich Polyakov.
  65. Complete the sentence about Baikonur Cosmodrome with the correct year: In ______, the Soviet Ministry of Defense issued a decree and founded the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
  66. Complete the sentence about Baikonur Cosmodrome with the correct year: As of ______ under Russian management, Baikonur is a spaceport, with numerous commercial, military, and scientific missions beingā€¦
  67. Complete the sentence about Kapchagay Reservoir with the correct year: Nevertheless, in ______, the volume of Kapchagay reservoir was only 36% of the capacity originally projected.
  68. Complete the sentence about Almaty International Airport with the correct year: In ______, it was reorganized into OJSC "Almaty Airport" and later renamed to JSC Almaty International Airport.
  69. Complete the sentence about Almaty International Airport with the correct year: The main terminal of Almaty International Airport, located at 2 Mailina Street, was originally built in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Aeroflot flight on 1 June ______ was the Tu-144's 55th and last scheduled passenger service.
  71. Complete the sentence about Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport with the correct year: In December ______, the first airfield of Astana was built on the outskirts of the town and was developedā€¦
  72. Complete the sentence about Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport with the correct year: Regular flights were established in ______, with the following routes: Alma-Ata ā€“ Karaganda ā€“ Akmolinsk ā€“ā€¦
  73. Complete the sentence about Taraz with the correct year: The city started to assume its present form when Colonel Chernyev's detachment took over the Aulie Ata fortress and annexed it to the Russian Eā€¦
  74. Complete the sentence about Taraz with the correct year: Taraz was greatly improved by the Semirechensky railway that passed through the town in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Torgay with the correct year: Turgay Region was established on 23 November ______ on the lands that previously belonged to Kostanay and Tselinograd Regions.
  76. Complete the sentence about Karkaraly with the correct year: The forests and mountains of Karkaraly have been protected by various government agencies since ______.
  77. Complete the sentence about Ayagoz with the correct year: In ______ it became an administrative center of Ayagoz District.
  78. Complete the sentence about Zhetysu with the correct year: Most of Jetisu was annexed by the Russian Empire from Qing China in ______, before the outbreak of the Crimean War, which delayed the southerā€¦
  79. Complete the sentence about Altai Krai with the correct year: In response, the peasant rebellion of Sorokino broke out in ______; this uprising was quickly crushed by the Red Army.
  80. Complete the sentence about Tengiz field with the correct year: Discovered in ______, Tengiz oil field is one of the largest discoveries in recent history.
  81. Complete the sentence about Tengiz field with the correct year: The Tengiz field, first discovered in ______, has recoverable reserves estimated at between six billion and nine billion barrels.
  82. Complete the sentence about Tengiz field with the correct year: The Tengiz fieldā€™s production of crude in ______ was 13 million tonnes per year but the SGI and SGP production increased this to over 25ā€¦
  83. Complete the sentence about Kashagan field with the correct year: Interest in the Caspian Sea first began in ______ when an exploration program was announced by the Kazakh government.
  84. Complete the sentence about Kashagan field with the correct year: In ______ the Kazakhstancaspiishelf was formed which consisted of Eni, BG Group, BP/Statoil, Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and TotalEnergieā€¦
  85. Complete the sentence about Kashagan field with the correct year: In ______ Phillips Petroleum Company and Inpex joined the consortium.
  86. Complete the sentence about Karachaganak field with the correct year: Discovered in ______, it began production under Karachaganakgazprom, a subsidiary of Gazprom.
  87. Complete the sentence about Karachaganak field with the correct year: Production began in ______ under the operatorship of Karachaganakgazprom.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Astana? With a population of 1,7 million within the city limits, it is the second-largest in the country after ______, the national capital until 1997.
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Astana? In December 1997, the city replaced ______ as the capital of Kazakhstan, and in May 1998, it was renamed Astana, which means "capital city" in Kazakh.
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Pavlodar? Another notable club formerly based in Pavlodar, FC Energetik, has since relocated to ______.
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Semey? Semipalatinsk Oblast merged with the larger East Kazakhstan Region, whose capital city is ______, on 23 May 1997.
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Temirtau? In 1933, the Samarkandsky-______ water conduit was built to facilitate the development of the Karaganda coal field.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Temirtau? Construction of the ______ State Regional Electric Power Station began in 1934, and the first turbine came online in 1942.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Temirtau? The theater finally moved to the capital ______ in the late 1980s.
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Taldykorgan? In that same decree, the capital of ______ Region was moved to the city of Konaev.
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Zhezkazgan? Also in 1973, the city became the administrative center of the newly formed Dzhezkazgan Oblast, created out of ______ Oblast.
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Semipalatinsk? When Abai Region was created in 2022, ______ became its administrative centre.
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Semipalatinsk? Modern ______, a bustling university town, has a population exceeding 350,000.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Big Almaty Lake? Big ______ Lake is located at an altitude of 2511m on the upper side of the Almaty canyon.
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Irtysh? In 2002, pipelines were constructed to supply water from the canal to the Ishim river and Kazakhstan's capital, ______.

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