History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Aliya Nazarbayeva with the correct year: In ______ by the decision of the State Attestation Commission of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University the MBA degree was confer…
  2. Complete the sentence about Rakhat Aliyev with the correct year: In ______, Aliyev became a surgeon at the Alma-Ata Medical Institute.
  3. Complete the sentence about Rakhat Aliyev with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the External Economic relations of the Ministry of Healthcare.
  4. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan–Kyrgyzstan relations with the correct year: Without any rallying figure, Kazakh and Kyrgyz people were placed under Russian domination fully in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan–Kyrgyzstan relations with the correct year: In March ______, Kazakhstan and Kirghizia participated in a referendum in an attempt to preserve the Union as a renew…
  6. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan–Kyrgyzstan relations with the correct year: During the failed coup that happened in Moscow in August ______, Askar Akayev and Nursultan Nazarbayev condemned the…
  7. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan–Kyrgyzstan relations with the correct year: On April 26, ______, the presidents of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan signed an agreement to create an "International Supr…
  8. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan–Turkey relations with the correct year: Turkey recognized Kazakhstan on 16 December ______, being the first state to recognize the independence of Kazakhstan, wh…
  9. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan–Turkey relations with the correct year: Diplomatic relations between the two countries were established on 2 March ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan–Turkey relations with the correct year: In September ______, the Presidents Nazarbayev and Özal signed a declaration in Ankara containing the principles and obje…
  11. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan–Iran relations with the correct year: Diplomatic relations between the two countries began on 29 January ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan–India relations with the correct year: India recognised the independence of Kazakhstan from the Soviet Union after the latter's dissolution in ______, continuing…
  13. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan–Germany relations with the correct year: Over ______ companies with German capital, including joint ventures, representations of German companies and banks, are…
  14. Complete the sentence about Kazakhstan–Azerbaijan relations with the correct year: On 25 September ______, the Azerbaijani Culture Center named after Imadaddin Nasimi was opened in Jambyl province of…
  15. Complete the sentence about Belt and Road Initiative with the correct year: Estimates found that in ______, China's GDP per capita was US…
  16. Complete the sentence about Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia with the correct year: As of ______, 87.95% of customs import duties come from Russia's budget, 4.7% from Belarus and the re…
  17. Complete the sentence about Constitutional Court of Kazakhstan with the correct year: In ______, the Constitutional Observation Committee to regulate the constitutionality in the Kazakh SSR was planne…
  18. Complete the sentence about Constitutional Court of Kazakhstan with the correct year: On 6 June ______, the law "On the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan" officially established the b…
  19. Complete the sentence about Constitutional Court of Kazakhstan with the correct year: In March ______, the Constitutional Court found the election of the Supreme Council to be illegitimate, and dissol…
  20. Complete the sentence about Constitutional Court of Kazakhstan with the correct year: In February ______, the Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan was established instead of the Court as according to…
  21. Complete the sentence about Semipalatinsk Polygon with the correct year: The full impact of radiation exposure was hidden for many years by Soviet authorities and has only come to light since the test…
  22. Complete the sentence about Semipalatinsk Polygon with the correct year: The site was selected in ______ by Lavrentiy Beria, political head of the Soviet atomic bomb project.
  23. Complete the sentence about Nazarbayev Center with the correct year: The Nazarbayev Center was established by a decree of President Nursultan Nazarbayev on January 23, ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Nazarbayev Center with the correct year: The Historical Gallery covers the period from the Middle Ages to ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Soviet atomic bomb project with the correct year: Physicist Georgy Flyorov, suspecting a Western Allied nuclear program, urged Stalin to start research in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Soviet atomic bomb project with the correct year: In late ______, F-1, the first nuclear reactor outside North America, achieved criticality at Laboratory No. 2.
  27. Complete the sentence about Soviet atomic bomb project with the correct year: On 29 August ______, the Soviet Union secretly conducted its first weapon test, RDS-1, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site of t…
  28. Complete the sentence about Soviet space program with the correct year: Soviet rocketry began with the Gas Dynamics Laboratory in ______, and these endeavors expanded during the 1930s and 1940s.
  29. Complete the sentence about Sputnik 1 with the correct year: Aerodynamic drag caused it to fall back into the atmosphere on 4 January ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Sputnik 1 with the correct year: The signals continued for 22 days until the transmitter batteries depleted on 26 October ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Cosmodrome with the correct year: The first rockets to reach space were V-2 rockets launched from Peenemünde, Germany in ______ during World War II.
  32. Complete the sentence about Cosmodrome with the correct year: The world's first spaceport for orbital and human launches, the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan, started as a Soviet military r…
  33. Complete the sentence about Kazakh Khanate with the correct year: In Kazakh historiography, the year ______ is commonly accepted as the date of the establishment of the Kazakh Khanate.
  34. Complete the sentence about Burunduk Khan with the correct year: In ______, Burunduk was forcefully deposed, but Kasym spared his life and allowed him to retire to Maverannahr.
  35. Complete the sentence about Haqnazar Khan with the correct year: In ______, Haqnazar defeated the Nogai Horde at the Battle of Emba reached Astrakhan, but were repelled by Russian forces.
  36. Complete the sentence about Zhangir Khan with the correct year: According to some reports, he was raised on a white rug immediately after his father's death in ______, but its long recognized as the s…
  37. Complete the sentence about Zhangir Khan with the correct year: In one of the battles with Dzhungars in ______ Jangir was captured in battle.
  38. Complete the sentence about Ablai Khan with the correct year: In late February ______, an Oirat army under the command of Septen invaded the Middle Jüz, advancing through heavy fighting as far as the…
  39. Complete the sentence about Syrym Datuly with the correct year: In a preserved report dated Jun 22, ______, Count Alexander Suvorov reports Datuly as one of the active participants in the uprising.
  40. Complete the sentence about Syrym Datuly with the correct year: In ______, under Datuly's leadership, a peasant uprising broke out in the Younger Zhuz.
  41. Complete the sentence about Syrym Datuly with the correct year: Datuly was captured by the Ural Cossacks and imprisoned until spring ______, when he was ransomed by Nuraly Khan, who was married to Dat…
  42. Complete the sentence about Syrym Datuly with the correct year: One of these attempts was made in ______ during a kurultai, an assembly of the leading chieftains, where it was proposed to divide the Z…
  43. Complete the sentence about Syrym Datuly with the correct year: In ______, Nuraly Khan was expelled from the Younger Zhuz and found refuge with the Tsar administration, which sent him to Ufa.
  44. Complete the sentence about Isatay Taymanuly with the correct year: Isatay was killed in fighting near the Aqbulaq River on July 12, ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Kenesary Kasymov with the correct year: In ______, the Khan of the Junior Juz Abul Khair Khan recognized the protectorate of the Russian Empire.
  46. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Abu'l-Khair Khan took the throne in ______ as the new khan of the Kazakhs.
  47. Complete the sentence about Abulkhair Khan with the correct year: In order to obtain Russian help against the Dzungars, Abul Khair Khan took an oath of allegiance to the Russian crown in ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Alash Party with the correct year: The Alash Party was founded in December ______, with its creation announced in the weekly newspaper Qazaq.
  49. Complete the sentence about Alikhan Bokeikhanov with the correct year: Alikhan Bukeikhanov was born into a Kazakh Muslim family on 5 March ______, in Tokyrauyn Volost, Russian Empire.
  50. Complete the sentence about Alikhan Bokeikhanov with the correct year: Bukeikhanov graduated from the Russian-Kazakh School and Omsk Technical School in ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Alikhan Bokeikhanov with the correct year: Bukeikhanov was the first biographer of Abay Kunanbayev, publishing an obituary in Semipalatinsky listok in ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Alikhan Bokeikhanov with the correct year: In ______, Bukeikhanov's political activism began when he joined the Constitutional Democratic Party.
  53. Complete the sentence about Alikhan Bokeikhanov with the correct year: In late ______ at the Uralsk Oblast Party Congress, he tried to create the Kazakh Democratic Party but failed.
  54. Complete the sentence about Mustafa Shokay with the correct year: Before the October Revolution in ______ Shokay's Family and about 30 of his relatives lived in one village, which was located 5 kilome…
  55. Complete the sentence about Turkestan Autonomy with the correct year: The Turkestan Autonomy was founded on November 27, ______, after the European-led Tashkent Soviet expelled the Russian Provisional…
  56. Complete the sentence about Turkestan Autonomy with the correct year: On February 22, ______, a delegation from the city officially surrendered to the Soviet.
  57. Complete the sentence about Orenburg with the correct year: In the summer of ______, Neplyuev was assigned to build the city on the site of the rivers Yaik and Sakmara.
  58. Complete the sentence about Orenburg with the correct year: Thus, in ______ Ivan Neplyuev founded Orenburg on thesite of present-day Orsk, about 250 kilometers west of the Urals.
  59. Complete the sentence about Orenburg with the correct year: Government forces crushed revolt towards the end of ______ by General Michelsohn at Tsaritsyn.
  60. Complete the sentence about Kazakh ASSR with the correct year: On 5 December ______, the ASSR was detached from the RSFSR and made the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, a full union republic of the So…
  61. Complete the sentence about Kazakh ASSR with the correct year: On 31 January ______, yet another territorial division was implemented, which included the six oblasts listed above, plus a new Karkarali…
  62. Complete the sentence about Filipp Goloshchyokin with the correct year: From ______, he worked in the Moscow Committee of the RSDLP and directed it.
  63. Complete the sentence about Levon Mirzoyan with the correct year: In ______, he became the Secretary of the Kazakh Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party.
  64. Complete the sentence about Levon Mirzoyan with the correct year: In ______, he became the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.
  65. Complete the sentence about Levon Mirzoyan with the correct year: In the summer of ______, Mirzoyan was arrested and detained in Lefortovo Prison in Moscow.
  66. Complete the sentence about Kazakh famine of 1932–33 with the correct year: Since Kazakhstan's independence in ______, the famine has been increasingly studied and commemorated as one of the greatest…
  67. Complete the sentence about Koreans in Kazakhstan with the correct year: According to Russian sources early as ______, 13 Korean households were recorded in Posyet, near the Bay of Novgorod.
  68. Complete the sentence about Volga Germans with the correct year: Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in ______, many Volga Germans immigrated to Germany.
  69. Complete the sentence about Gennady Kolbin with the correct year: In ______, he started studying at the Nizhny Tagil Mining and Metallurgical College.
  70. Complete the sentence about Gennady Kolbin with the correct year: Kolbin joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ he graduated from the Ural Polytechnic Institute named after S.
  72. Complete the sentence about Gennady Kolbin with the correct year: In ______, he served as Second Secretary and First Secretary of the Lenin District Committee of the CPSU of Nizhny Tagil.
  73. Complete the sentence about Dinmukhamed Konayev with the correct year: In February ______, Khrushchev appointed Panteleymon Ponomarenko as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, and…
  74. Complete the sentence about Dinmukhamed Konayev with the correct year: On 19 January ______, Kunayev was elected 1st Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.
  75. Complete the sentence about Tengrism with the correct year: The term was introduced into scientific circulation in ______ by French scholar Jean-Paul Roux and later in the 1960s as a general term in E…
  76. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Mongolian Тэнгэр шүтлэг is used in a ______ biography of Genghis Khan.
  77. Which place completes the sentence? The same measure also restored the capital's name from Nur-Sultan to ______.
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Parliament of Kazakhstan? Both chambers conducted legislative sessions at the Parliament House in the capital of ______.
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Semipalatinsk? When Abai Region was created in 2022, ______ became its administrative centre.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Semipalatinsk? Modern ______, a bustling university town, has a population exceeding 350,000.
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Semipalatinsk? Semipalatinsk Oblast merged with the larger East Kazakhstan Region, whose capital city is ______, on 23 May 1997.
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Imangali Tasmagambetov? President Nursultan Nazarbayev replaced Tasmagambetov with ______ Region Akim Daniyal Akhmetov on 13 June 2003.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Aliya Nazarbayeva? In 2018, residents in ______ collected petitions regarding the polluted black snow to send Nazarbayeva.
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Soviet atomic bomb project? Early efforts were made at Laboratory No. 2 in Moscow, led by Igor ______, and by Soviet-sympathizing atomic spies in the US Manha…

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