Aktogay, East Kazakhstan Province
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Aktogay is a town
in Ayagoz District
, East Kazakhstan Province of Kazakhstan
and major railway hub of Turkestan-Siberian Railway.
Aktogay is located in Balkhash-Alakol lowlands, close to Balkhash lake. The Ayagoz river’s mouth is located nearby Aktogay. The climate is continental. Summer is hot +40°, winter is cold -40°. The distance to district center Ayagoz is 100 km, to the region center Ust-Kamenogorsk is 420 km, to Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan is 1250 km.
The major copper deposit is discovered close to Aktogay town. This is the fourth reserves of copper in the world. Aktogay mine and copper extraction plant was completed there and the copper cathodes production started in 2011. The capital cost account $1.5-2 billion and the production capacity is 100.000 tones per annum.
The city is about 30 km from Lake Balkhash
.
) was built in 1959, but at that time the relations between two countries was spoiled
and Chinese Lanxin railway
was not extended to Kazakhstan border in the following thirty years. In 1985 Aktogay was linked with Sayaq
station, therefore a railway connection to Central Kazakhstan become available. After connection with China in Alataw Pass in 1990, a railway bridge Ürümqi
—Dostyk—Aktogay—Sayak—Balqash
—Moyynty appeared.
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...
in Ayagoz District
Ayagoz District
Ayagoz is a district of East Kazakhstan Province in eastern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is Ayagoz city.The district is served by Turkestan-Siberia Railway. Aktogay station, located within the district, is an important junction....
, East Kazakhstan Province of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
and major railway hub of Turkestan-Siberian Railway.
Aktogay is located in Balkhash-Alakol lowlands, close to Balkhash lake. The Ayagoz river’s mouth is located nearby Aktogay. The climate is continental. Summer is hot +40°, winter is cold -40°. The distance to district center Ayagoz is 100 km, to the region center Ust-Kamenogorsk is 420 km, to Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan is 1250 km.
The major copper deposit is discovered close to Aktogay town. This is the fourth reserves of copper in the world. Aktogay mine and copper extraction plant was completed there and the copper cathodes production started in 2011. The capital cost account $1.5-2 billion and the production capacity is 100.000 tones per annum.
The city is about 30 km from Lake Balkhash
Lake Balkhash
Lake Balkhash is one of the largest lakes in Asia and 12th largest continental lake in the world. It is located in southeastern Kazakhstan, in Central Asia, and belongs to an endorheic basin shared by Kazakhstan and China, with a small part in Kyrgyzstan. The basin drains into the lake via seven...
.
Transport
Aktogay lies in the main line of Turkestan–Siberia Railway. After Soviet–Chinese accords of 1956, the railway to Dostyk (in Alataw PassAlataw Pass
The term Alataw Pass can be* another name for the Dzungarian Gate, an historically and geographically notable pass through the Dzungarian Alatau mountains between Kazakhstan and China, or...
) was built in 1959, but at that time the relations between two countries was spoiled
Sino-Soviet split
In political science, the term Sino–Soviet split denotes the worsening of political and ideologic relations between the People's Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the Cold War...
and Chinese Lanxin railway
Lanxin railway
The Lanzhou−Xinjiang Railway or Lanxin Railway is the longest railway in northwestern China. It runs from Lanzhou, Gansu, through the Hexi Corridor, to Ürümqi, in the Xinjiang. It is Xinjiang's only rail link with the rest of China...
was not extended to Kazakhstan border in the following thirty years. In 1985 Aktogay was linked with Sayaq
Sayaq
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station, therefore a railway connection to Central Kazakhstan become available. After connection with China in Alataw Pass in 1990, a railway bridge Ürümqi
Ürümqi
Ürümqi , formerly Tihwa , is the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, in the northwest of the country....
—Dostyk—Aktogay—Sayak—Balqash
Balqash
Balkhash is a city of 66,724 inhabitants at Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan.Balkhash was founded in 1937 as an industrial city centred around the mining and smelting of copper, and presently copper is still exploited there...
—Moyynty appeared.