Ushkonyr

Ushkonyr, formerly known as Shamalgan or Chemolgan, is a rural community near in . It is notable as the birthplace of first Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
  • Village with 13,600 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 701 metres (2,300 feet)
  • Description: village in Almaty Region, Kazakhstan
  • Address: Үшқоңыр ауылдық округі, Қарасай ауданы
  • Also known as
    “Jibek joly”
    “Shamalgan”
    “Ushqonyr”
    “Пригорное”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aitei.
Äitei, known as Internatsional until 1992… is situated 7 km northeast of Ushkonyr.

Ushkonyr

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Latitude
43.1897° or 43° 11′ 23″ north
Longitude
76.53449° or 76° 32′ 4″ east
Open location code
8JMR5GQM+VQ
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Open­Street­Map feature
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Ushkonyr” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوشكونير”
  • Armenian: “Շամալգան”
  • Armenian: “Ուշկոնիր”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uşkonır”
  • Belarusian: “Ушканыр”
  • Belarusian: “Шамалган”
  • Catalan: “Şamalğan”
  • Cebuano: “Chemolgan”
  • Chechen: “Шамалган”
  • Dutch: “Chemolgan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيمولجان”
  • French: “Chemolgan”
  • French: “Ushkonyr”
  • Galician: “Ushkonyr”
  • German: “Üschqongyr”
  • Greek: “Ουσκονίρ”
  • Greek: “Τσεμόλγκαν”
  • Hebrew: “צ’מולגן”
  • Hungarian: “Csemolgan”
  • Irish: “Ushqonyr”
  • Kazakh: “Jıbek joly”
  • Kazakh: “Shamalgan” (historical)
  • Kazakh: “Жібек жолы”
  • Kazakh: “Үшқоңыр”
  • Kazakh: “Шамалган” (historical)
  • Kazakh: “Шамалған”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Chemolgan”
  • Macedonian: “Чемолган”
  • Malagasy: “Ushkonyr”
  • Malay: “Chemolgan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjamalgan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Üschqongyr”
  • Persian: “شامالغان”
  • Polish: “Szamałgan”
  • Polish: “Üszkongyr”
  • Russian: “Жибек Жолы”
  • Russian: “Ушконыр”
  • Russian: “Чемолган” (historical)
  • Russian: “Шамалган”
  • Scots: “Chemolgan”
  • Slovenian: “Čemolgan”
  • Swedish: “Sjamalghan”
  • Tajik: “Шамалған”
  • Tatar: “Шамалган (авыл)”
  • Tatar: “Шамалган”
  • Ukrainian: “Ушконир”
  • Ukrainian: “Шамалган”
  • Urdu: “اوشکونیر”

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