Stepnyak, Kazakhstan

Stepnyak is a town in Akmola Region of central Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of Birzhan sal District and of the Stepnyak City Administration. Population:

History

On February 10, 1934, the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided: “2. In addition to the already approved resolutions of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on November 1, 1932 and December 27, 1933, the settlements of the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Arys, Ayagoz, Ilyich and Transform Karsakpai into workers’ settlements and assign them new names; settlement at the Stepnyak mine — to the working village of Stepnyak”.

Geography

Stepnyak is located in the Kazakh Uplands, to the north of Kotyrkol lake and to the east of Zhokey lake.