Zhetigen
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Zhetigen or Zhetygen (Жетыген) is a small town in Almaty Province
of Kazakhstan
. It is located some 50 km north of Almaty, on the Turksib rail line.
An airforce plane crashed near the town in 2008.
Almaty Province
Almaty is a province of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Taldykorgan, which has a population of 118,400. The province itself has 1,603,700 people.-Geography:...
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...
. It is located some 50 km north of Almaty, on the Turksib rail line.
Accident
The 600th Guards Air Base of the Kazakh Air Force is located at an airfield near Zhetigen.An airforce plane crashed near the town in 2008.