Khromtau is a town in Aktobe 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...

, the administrative center of Khromtau District

Khromtau District

Khromtau is a district of Aktobe Province in Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is Khromtau town....

. It was formed in 1967. Population is approximately 21,156 (2008). Khromtau has important Chromium deposits, which are currently exploited in underground mines. Previously, Chromite ore was mined in open cast mines, which left enormous pits behind.

The newly built mosque and the also new Russian orthodox church are juxtaposed on the mains square of town.

FC Gornyak

FC Gornyak

FC Gornyak are a Kazakhstani football based in Khromtau. They are current members of the Kazakhstan First Division....

 plays in the Kazakhstan First Division

Kazakhstan First Division

The Kazakhstan First Division is the second division of football in Kazakhstan. The League is controlled by the Football Union of Kazakhstan and feeds into the Kazakhstan Premier League, having been founded in 1994. It runs from spring and to late autumn, making each championship correspond to a...

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The town sent a bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

 team to the Spartakiade 2009.