Stepnogorsk is a town in Akmola Province

Akmola Province

Akmola Province is a centrally located province of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Kokshetau. The capital of the whole country, Astana, is enclosed in the province, but is politically separate from Akmola Province. The province's population is 748,300; Kokshetau's is 124,000. The area is 146,200...

, 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...

. It was established in 1959, and has been a town since 1964. It is located about 200km North-East of Astana

Astana

Astana , formerly known as Akmola , Tselinograd and Akmolinsk , is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan, with an officially estimated population of 708,794 as of 1 August 2010...

. It was first established as a secret town with code names Tselinograd-25 , Makinsk-2 . The town is known as a nuclear and biochemical site. As of 1999 Stepnogorsk, had a population of 50,900.

External links

• STEPNOGORSK Online - UNofficial web site since 1999 mirror(in Russian)
• about Stepnogorsk (in Russian)
• Stepnogorsk in pictures (in Russian)
• Advertising and Information Portal town Stepnogorsk Kazakhstan (in Russian)