Alatau, Medeu District, Almaty

Alatau is a settlement 25 km. off Almaty, south-eastern Kazakhstan. Administratively, it is included in the Medeu District of Almaty and informally recognized as a microdistrict of Almaty.
The settlement was established in 1957 as an unnamed settlement for scientific institutions and their workers. Now it has, Kazakhstan National Nuclear Center with an experimental nuclear reactor and cyclotron, Physis and Technology Institute, as well as the special economical zone "Innovation Technology Park".