Ekibastuz
Sign in to saveEkıbastūz ( ; ) is a city in Pavlodar Region, northeastern Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of the Ekibastuz City Administration. The population was Ekıbastūz is served by Ekıbastūz Airport.
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Ekibastuz is a city located in northeastern Kazakhstan's Pavlodar Region that serves as the administrative center for its city administration. The city is accessible via Ekibastuz Airport and functions as a regional hub in Kazakhstan.
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Place details
- Locality
- Екібастұз
- Region
- Павлодар облысы
- Country
- Қазақстан
- Population
- 121,470
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Ekıbastūz ( ; ) is a city in Pavlodar Region, northeastern Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of the Ekibastuz City Administration. The population was Ekıbastūz is served by Ekıbastūz Airport.
==History== The history of Ekıbastūz begins in the 19th century, when Kosym Pshembayev, a native Kazakh who was commissioned by Russian merchants to look for mineral resources in that region, alighted on a coal field southeast of Pavlodar. The commercial exploitation of the field started soon after. The field afterwards was sold to a British businessman, Leslie Urquhart. The village of Ekıbastūz was established in 1899, named after the nearby lake of the same name, which means 2 heads of salt in Kazakh (eki 'two' + bas 'head' + tuz 'salt').