Cities

The layout of this page is a little different from the other pages on the site to accomodate the size of the map below.

Some of these web sites linked to on each city's page are not in English, and because they are on foreign servers they tend to disappear and reappear frequently. Use an online translator to view Russian pages in English. However, while on the different web sites, if you put your pointer over a link (without clicking) and look at the address on the bottom of your browser window, the URL is usually in English, so that you can at least locate pictures. You can also look for "ФOTO" which is photo.

The following links take you to online translator sites; it will open in a new window making it easier to paste in the web address to be translated: Systran , Babel Fish , World Lingo , Promt (optional free registration for more options), Google language tools , and LogoMedia (free for a limited time, but you must register to use it). These online translators can either translate web pages or text that you type in. Langenberg Translation offers 11 different engines (not all of them do Russian) for translating words, phrases, and web sites. Mezzofanti offers numerous translators on one page, with links and comments to others, although only a few do Russian. In addition to these sites, Rustran , Trident , Dictionary.com , Reverso and Im Translator , will translate text online. Try more than one if the translation doesn't make any sense.

General Sites

• General information (hotels) on this website has a listing of sites that generally list hotels in Kazakhstan.
• Current Population for cities and towns in Kazakhstan.
• Multimap : search for local maps of every city in Kazakhstan. You may have to try different spellings to find what you want.
• Place Names has a massive list of cities with their Russian and Kazakh names.
• BRIF Central Asia has maps and information about regions and some cities. Slow loading site.
• Degree Confluence Project : "the goal is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted here." They only have a few spots done; maybe you can help out!
• Topographical maps of Kazakhstan. This site can be slow to load.
• Falling Rain Genomics has maps and current weather conditions (temperature, cloud cover and precipitation). There are links to this site on each city page.
• Photo sharing sites are a great place to search for pictures of cities; remember to do a search for all the spelling variations. Remember that not all search results will be "family" friendly.
  • Flickr.com
  • Travel Images
  • Panoramio
  • Photobucket
  • Webshots
  • PBase
  • TrekEarth
  • Fotki
  • Google Images Search
  • Yahoo Images Search
• Many other pages on this website might have information about each city, particularly General Information, Personal pages and Families.

Click on the name of a city on the map or list below for more information about it. Please be patient as it takes a little time for the map to load. Holding the pointer over the city will cause a small box to pop-up which lists alternative names and spellings. If there is no link to a city you are interested in, please E-mail me and I will see what I can find. Would you like to help me keep a city's page updated? I am unable to double-check the links and search for new sites as often as I would like. Just let me know what city you would like to help with; I can also give you hints on how to search. Below the map is a list of the cities for which I have pages; a next to the name means that I have added new content in the last month.