- Temirtau
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official_name = Temirtau
native_name = Теміртау
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image_caption = Тemirtau, Avenue of the Republic
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subdivision_name1 =Karagandy Province
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footnotes =Temirtau ( _kk. Теміртау, _ru. Темиртау) is a city in the
Karaganda region ofKazakhstan . Pop 180,000.History
*1905, June, 15 - the first groups of settlers (see
Stolypin reform ) settled down on the left bank of theNura river . There were 40 families, that had arrived from Samara. The settlement they founded was named Zhaur ("Жаур"), after a hill on the other side of the river.
*1909 - the Zhaur settlement was renamed Samarkandsky ("Самаркандский", or Samarkand for short).
*1911 - the first school and the first hospital were built.
*1933 - the Samarkandsky-Karaganda water conduit was built to facilitate the development of the Karaganda coal field.
*1939 - a 20x300m dam was erected across the Nura river. Filling of the resulting Samarkand water reservoir was initiated, and continued up to 1961.
*1942 - the first turbine of the Karaganda State Regional Electric Power Station was started up. The construction of the power plant building was started in 1934
*1944 - still under construction, the Kazakh Steel Mill yielded its first steel, smelted in an open-hearth (Siemens-Martin) furnace.
*1945, October, 1 - the Samarkand settlement was granted city status and renamed Temirtau ("Iron Mountain" in Kazakh)
*1947-1949 - Japanese prisoners-of-war were kept in a camp near the town.
*1950 - the futureKaraganda Steel Mill was founded. To build it theUSSR announced a "Nationwide High-Intensive Construction Project", and a lot of youth "shock-worker brigades" were gathered from all parts of the Soviet Union and even from ally countries (mainly fromBulgaria ).
*1959 - riots and insurrections among workers greatly dissatisfied with the poor working and living conditions and the interruptions in supply of water, food, goods, tools etc - the result of numerous mistakes committed by the administration. Clashes took their toll. Workers: 16 fatalities, 27 wounded, about 70 arrested and convicted. Police: 28 wounded.
*1960 - blast furnace No. 1 yielded its first cast iron.
*1963 - theKaraganda Polytechnical Institute (nowKaraganda Metallurgical Institute ) was founded as a Higher Technical Educational Institution attached to theKaraganda Steel Mill .
*1970s - a new sports complex was built, including a 50 m swimming pool, a stadium that seats 15,000 and an indoor ice-skating/hockey rink.
*1972 - the "Metallurgists' Palace of Culture" was opened.
*1978 - "Vostok" recreational park was laid out in the eastern part of the city and opened to the public.
*1978, July, 29 - the Warrior Monument with the Eternal Flame was dedicated to the honor of Temirtau soldiers killed in World War II.
*1984 - a new residential area, "Zenica", was established. It was named so in honour ofZenica , Temirtau'sList of twin towns and sister cities#twin-town in Bosnia and Herzegovina (formerYugoslavia ).
*1986- Queen Irina Mironova was born.
*1993, January - the Winter Garden was opened in "Vostok" Park
*1995 - theKaraganda Steel Mill was transferred toISPAT International , renamedIspat-KarMet and eventually became the presentMittal Steel Temirtau .ister Cities
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