Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Which place completes this sentence about Ishim River? The upper course of the Ishim passes through ______, the capital of Kazakhstan.
  2. Which place completes this sentence about Ishim River? According to the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, ______ was chosen as the capital in part due to the presence of the river.
  3. Which place completes this sentence about Mangyshlak Peninsula? To the north, three mountain ranges stretch across the peninsula, the North and South ______ Range and the Mangystau Range, with the hig…
  4. Which place completes this sentence about Burabay National Park? The Burabay National Park is located in the ______ Massif, part of the Kokshetau Hills, in the northern sector of the Kazakh Uplands.
  5. Which place completes this sentence about Palace of Peace and Reconciliation? In 2011 and 2013, the International ______ Action Film Festival was held in the Palace.
  6. Which place completes this sentence about Nur-Sultan? Initially founded as Aqmoly in 1830, the city was later renamed Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, and Aqmola before adopting the name ______ in 1998, or "ca…
  7. Which place completes this sentence about Akmola Region? Aqmola, along with Ulytau Region and ______ Region, are Kazakhstan's only regions which don't touch the country's outer borders.
  8. Which place completes this sentence about Aktobe Region? As of 2025, the ______ region remains the largest Kazakhstan region by land area.
  9. Which place completes this sentence about Atyrau Region? Rich in oil, ______ Region has the highest GDP per capita in the country and significantly contributes to the economy of the country.
  10. Which place completes this sentence about Karaganda Region? In 1973, Dzhezkazgan Oblast was split off from ______ Oblast making it a fraction of the size it once was.
  11. Which place completes this sentence about Kostanay Region? The population living in ______ is 277,064, which is equivalent to 33.7% of the region.
  12. Which place completes this sentence about Kostanay Region? The ______ Region has more than 5,000 lakes; the largest ones are located in Torgai dell, Kushmurun, Sarymoin, Aksuat, and Sarykopa.
  13. Which place completes this sentence about Pavlodar Region? The Bayanaul National Park, a protected area of the Kazakh Uplands, is located in the Bayanaul Range, within 100 km of ______.
  14. Which place completes this sentence about Pavlodar Region? As of 2020, the ______ Region has a population of 752,169.
  15. Which place completes this sentence about Jambyl Region? In August 2021, nine people were killed in a major explosion in at a Kazakhstani ammunition depot at a military unit in ______ in the Jambyl Re…
  16. Which place completes this sentence about Regions of Kazakhstan? Abai Region was created from East Kazakhstan Region with its capital in ______.
  17. Which place completes this sentence about Torgay? The region was located in the center of Kazakhstan, and its territory is currently divided between ______ and Akmola Regions.
  18. Which place completes this sentence about Torgay? Turgay Region was established on 23 November 1970 on the lands that previously belonged to ______ and Tselinograd Regions.
  19. 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 E…
  20. Complete the sentence about Taraz with the correct year: Taraz was greatly improved by the Semirechensky railway that passed through the town in ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Oral, Kazakhstan with the correct year: In September ______, the Kazakhstan Bandy Federation bought the club.
  22. Complete the sentence about Oral, Kazakhstan with the correct year: After the Kazakhstan national bandy team took the gold medal at the ______ Asian Winter Games, the team came back to Oral in triumph…
  23. Complete the sentence about Aral Sea with the correct year: In a Kazakhstani effort to save and replenish the North Aral Sea, the Dike Kokaral dam was completed in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Ili River with the correct year: Until ______, the delta was a refuge of the extinct Caspian tiger.
  25. Complete the sentence about Chu with the correct year: In the winter of ______, an ice gorge formed on the Chu River upstream from Tokmok, the administrative centre of Semirechye Province.
  26. Complete the sentence about Aksu-Zhabagly Nature Reserve with the correct year: The Aksu-Zhabagly Nature Reserve harbors ______ vascular plants.
  27. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The troupe was on tour in ______, performing in New York City, Toronto and Paris.
  28. Complete the sentence about Zenkov Cathedral with the correct year: In May ______ control of the cathedral was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church.
  29. Complete the sentence about Shymbulak with the correct year: The annual "Artyemenko" Prize competition has been held in Shymbulak since ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Shymbulak with the correct year: In November ______, the Shymbulak Ski Resort held an opening ceremony for a night skiing course on the Talgar Pass.
  31. Complete the sentence about Turkistan Region with the correct year: The region's capital is Turkistan, formerly Shymkent until ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Turkistan Region with the correct year: As of ______, the region was administratively divided into eleven districts and the cities of Shymkent, Arys, Kentau, and Turkistan.
  33. Complete the sentence about Jambyl Region with the correct year: As a result, Minister of Defense Nurlan Yermekbayev announced his intent to resign on 27 August ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Jambyl Region with the correct year: In ______, the Jambyl region began the reconstruction of the Tekturmas historical complex.
  35. Complete the sentence about Przewalski's horse with the correct year: According to a ______ study, the earliest known domesticated horses were found at settlements of the Botai culture, from about 550…
  36. Complete the sentence about Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport with the correct year: On 8 June ______ the airport officially changed its three-character IATA airport code from TSE to NQZ.
  37. Complete the sentence about Semirechye 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 sout…
  38. Complete the sentence about Karachaganak field with the correct year: In September ______ the KPO filed an arbitration case against Kazakhstan.
  39. Complete the sentence about Konaev with the correct year: Following the dam's completion, Novoiliysk was renamed Kapshagay in its honor on 9 July ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Stepnogorsk with the correct year: The hottest recorded summer occurred in August ______, when temperatures reached +44 °C.
  41. Complete the sentence about Shchuchinsk with the correct year: Shchuchinsk was founded as a Cossack settlement called firstly as vyselok Shchuchinskiy in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Lisakovsk with the correct year: By decision of the Kazakhi Parliament, the city became a free economic zone in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Aksu, Pavlodar Region with the correct year: The population of Glinka gradually increased, most intensively after the riots of ______, when out-migrants poured into the Kaz…
  44. Complete the sentence about Aksu, Pavlodar Region with the correct year: The Soviet power was firmly established in Yermak in November ______, following the creation of the Pavlodar Soviet of People's…
  45. Complete the sentence about Aksu, Pavlodar Region with the correct year: Until ______, Yermak was a volost centre of the Pavlodar Uezd.
  46. Complete the sentence about Ridder, Kazakhstan with the correct year: Ridder was founded in ______ when 9 troops of men were sent to the Altai region to search for natural resource deposits.
  47. Complete the sentence about Ridder, Kazakhstan with the correct year: On May 31, ______ an officer, Philip Ridder, found a rich deposit containing gold, silver and other metals.
  48. Complete the sentence about Serebryansk with the correct year: Serebryansk was founded in ______ as the urban-type settlement of Serebryanka.
  49. Complete the sentence about Serebryansk with the correct year: On July 9, ______ Serebryanka was granted town status within Zyryan District.
  50. Complete the sentence about Embi with the correct year: After a number of administrative transformations, in ______ Embi ended up in Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.
  51. Complete the sentence about Shalkar with the correct year: In ______, Chelkar was an area of battles during the Russian Civil War.
  52. Complete the sentence about Shalkar with the correct year: On May 26, ______ Irgizsky District, a successor of Irgizsky Uyezd, was transferred to Aktyubinsk Governorate of Kirghiz Autonomous Soviet So…
  53. Complete the sentence about Shalkar with the correct year: On July 5, ______ the district was abolished, and Shalkar became the administrative center of Chelkarsky Uyezd.
  54. Complete the sentence about Shalkar with the correct year: In ______, the republic was renamed Kazak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic.
  55. Complete the sentence about Shalkar with the correct year: On January 17, ______ the governorate was abolished, and Chelkar was transferred to Aktyubinsk Okrug.
  56. Complete the sentence about Lake Sasykkol with the correct year: Lake Sasykkol is part of the Alakol Biosphere Reserve, designated by UNESCO as part of its Man and the Biosphere Programme in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Lake Aydarkul with the correct year: Since ______ the Aydar Lake has regularly received the waters of the Syr Darya River when they overflow the capacity of the Shardara Re…
  58. Complete the sentence about Ile-Alatau National Park with the correct year: Ile-Alatau State National Nature Park is a national park in Kazakhstan, established in ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Ile-Alatau National Park with the correct year: The history of the park begins with the creation of the Almaty State Reserve in Zailiisky Alatau in ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Karatau Mountains with the correct year: The Karatau Nature Reserve is a protected area in the range established in ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Belukha with the correct year: In the summer of ______, a team of scientists traveled to the remote Belukha Glacier to assess the feasibility of extracting ice cores at the…
  62. Complete the sentence about Muztagh Ata with the correct year: The Swedish explorer and geographer Sven Hedin made the first recorded attempt to climb Muztagh Ata, in ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Nura River with the correct year: In ______, an acetaldehyde factory in the city of Temirtau began to discharge large quantities of mercury waste into the river.
  64. Complete the sentence about Ayagoz River with the correct year: In ______, Kaip Khan and Abul Khayr attacked the Dzungar Khanate but were defeated on the River Ayagöz.
  65. Complete the sentence about Ayagoz River with the correct year: Prince Gortchakoff, governor of Western Siberia, sent an officer named Assanoff in ______ with some men to Lake Balkash to see if a fish…
  66. Complete the sentence about Zhaiyk with the correct year: In later European texts it is sometimes mentioned as Rhymnus fluvius and in the Russian chronicle of ______ as Yaik.
  67. Complete the sentence about Zhaiyk with the correct year: The river was renamed Ural in the Russian language in ______, by Catherine II of Russia.
  68. Complete the sentence about Zhaiyk 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.
  69. Complete the sentence about Karkaraly National Park with the correct year: The area first became protected in ______, as the Karkaralinsk Forest Reserve.
  70. Complete the sentence about Karkaraly National Park with the correct year: In ______, construction began on many of the parks cordons: Bedaik, Koktube, Ayushat, Tulkebai, Tonkurus and others.
  71. Complete the sentence about Karkaraly National Park with the correct year: Having undergone several administrative changes in ______, the Karkaraly Forestry Department was organized.
  72. Complete the sentence about Aralsk with the correct year: In ______, Russian merchants organized large fishing companies and formed a joint-stock firm in Aralsk.
  73. Complete the sentence about Aralsk with the correct year: In ______, Aralsk and the Aralsky district became a part of newly formed Kzyl-Orda oblast of Kazakh SSR and turned into the town.
  74. Complete the sentence about Aralsk with the correct year: In ______ Russia built Raimsk, later called Fort Aralsk, near the mouth of the Syr Darya.
  75. Complete the sentence about Kyzylkum Desert with the correct year: Kyzylkum Nature Reserve in Bukhara Region was established in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Saiga tatarica with the correct year: The scientific name Capra tatarica was coined by Carl Linnaeus in ______ in the 12th edition of Systema Naturae.
  77. Complete the sentence about Saiga tatarica with the correct year: In ______, American paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson classified both in the tribe Saigini under the same subfamily, Caprinae.
  78. Complete the sentence about Saiga tatarica with the correct year: A ______ study revealed that a steep decline has occurred in the genetic variability of the saiga since the late Pleistocene-Holocene…
  79. Complete the sentence about Steppe eagle with the correct year: British naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson described the steppe eagle in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Pallas's cat with the correct year: Pallas's cat was first described in ______ by Peter Simon Pallas, who observed it in the vicinity of Lake Baikal.
  81. Complete the sentence about Pallas's cat with the correct year: As of ______, 60 zoos in Europe, Russia, North America and Japan participate in Pallas's cat captive breeding programs.
  82. Complete the sentence about Pallas's cat with the correct year: Otocolobus was proposed by Johann Friedrich von Brandt in ______ as a generic name.
  83. Complete the sentence about Syrdarya with the correct year: After the ______ fall of the Soviet Union, this system disintegrated and the Central Asian nations have failed to reinstate it.
  84. Complete the sentence about Kyzylorda with the correct year: The modern city began in ______ as the site of a Kokand fortress known as Ak-Mechet, or white mosque.
  85. Complete the sentence about Kyzylorda with the correct year: In ______, during the Russian conquest of Turkestan, the fort was taken by Russian troops under General Vasily Perovsky.
  86. Complete the sentence about Kyzylorda with the correct year: Soviet power in the city was first established in October ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Kyzylorda with the correct year: In ______, the capital of the Kazakh ASSR was relocated to Kzyl-Orda from Orynbor.
  88. Complete the sentence about Kyzylorda with the correct year: In ______, the Kazakh Drama Theater was established in the city.
  89. Complete the sentence about Kyzylorda with the correct year: In ______, the Kyzylorda State Archive was founded, whose collections include documents from the period when Kyzylorda was the Kazakh capit…
  90. Complete the sentence about Kyzylorda with the correct year: In ______, the city became the capital of the newly established Kyzylorda Region.
  91. Complete the sentence about Central Asia with the correct year: In ______, UNESCO defined the region as "Afghanistan, north-eastern Iran, Pakistan, northern India, western China, Mongolia and the Sovi…
  92. Complete the sentence about Khorgos with the correct year: In ______, the Russian Empire signed an agreement with Qing China to have Khorgos and Tacheng opened as port of entries along the Qing-Russia…
  93. Complete the sentence about Khorgos with the correct year: In ______, the 61st Regiment Farm fire in Khorgos killed 694 and injured 161.
  94. Complete the sentence about Khorgos with the correct year: Passenger trains from Ürümqi started on 1 July ______; however, they initially only ran to Yining and not all the way to Khorgos.
  95. Complete the sentence about Khorgos with the correct year: In June ______, the Ürümqi Railway Bureau of the China Railway started daily passenger service from Ürümqi to Astana via Khorgos.
  96. Complete the sentence about Dostyk with the correct year: The agreement between the Soviet Union and the PRC to connect Kazakhstan with Western China by rail was achieved in ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Dostyk with the correct year: On the Chinese side, however, the westward construction of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang railway was stopped once it reached Urumqi in ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Dostyk with the correct year: Due to the Sino-Soviet Split, the border town remained a sleepy backwater for some 30 years, until the railway link was finally completed on S…
  99. Complete the sentence about Tselinny Krai with the correct year: Through the decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on December 26, ______, the Tselinny Krai was cr…
  100. Complete the sentence about Tselinny Krai with the correct year: On December 17, ______, they were transferred back under oblast and district control.

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