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Aktau

Administration
Full nameAktau
Official nameAktau
Native nameАқтау
CountryKazakhstan
ProvinceMangystau Province
Government
Akim (mayor)Salimgerey Bekbergenov
Demography
Total Population187700 (2005)
Urban (pop.)162400
Other information
Time zoneUTC+5 (UTC+5)
Postal code130000
Area code+7 7292

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Aktau, formerly known as Shevchenko (, 1964-1991), is a city in Kazakhstan's Mangyshlak Peninsula and country's only seaport on the Caspian Sea. It is the capital of Mangystau Province in western Kazakhstan. Aktau literally means "white mountain" in Kazakh, so named after the cliffs overlooking the sea.
Aktau has a block address system-the streets of the city have no names, and all addresses in Aktau consist of three numbers: the microdistrict (block) number, the building number and the apartment number. This is because the town was settled first to be the camp of the workers of oil industry from another parts of the country.

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Baku Sea Port ups dry cargo transportation - Trend News Agency (subscription) Tweet this news
Trend News Agency (subscription)--The port also shipped 3600 units of containers with humanitarian supplies to be sent Europe to Afghanistan via Kazakhstan (-Aktau-). ... - Date : Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:50:07 GMT+00:00
Anti-terrorist police crack down on Baptists in Kazakhstan - Dallas Baptist Standard Tweet this news
Dallas Baptist Standard---...- also recently raided three Taraz mosques and a madrassah - an Islamic school - and a Pentecostal congregation in the Caspian Sea port town of -Aktau-. ... - Date : Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:51:45 GMT+00:00
21 Break out of Prison in West Kazakhstan - CRIENGLISH.com Tweet this news
CRIENGLISH.com--The prison break, backed by armed groups, occurred at about 4:30 am local time (2230 GMT Monday) in -Aktau-, the provincial capital. ... - Date : Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:50:19 GMT+00:00
Anti-terrorist police crack down on Baptists in Kazakhstan - Associated Baptist Press Tweet this news
Associated Baptist Press---...- raided three mosques in the city of Taraz and a madrassah (an Islamic school) and a Pentecostal congregation in the Caspian Sea port town of -Aktau-. ... - Date : Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:03:10 GMT+00:00
Caspian States to ramp up export routes - IranOilGas.com (subscription) Tweet this news
IranOilGas.com (subscription)--Kazakh producers, including TCO and state Kazmunaigas, export oil across the Caspian Sea in small tankers to Baku from -Aktau- and then by rail to the ... - Date : Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:46:54 GMT+00:00
Kazakhstan starts preparations for construction of plant for bitumen production - Trend News Agency (subscription) Tweet this news
Trend News Agency (subscription)--Preparatory and demolition works on project of construction of a new plant for paving bitumen at the construction site of the former -Aktau- plant of plastics ... - Date : Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:03:22 GMT+00:00
Kazakhstan: Food Contract Corporation opens the grain terminal in Iranian port ... - Agrimarket Consulting Tweet this news
Agrimarket Consulting---...- 6 grain storage bases, located in the different regions of Kazakhstan, the grain terminal in the port -Aktau- on the Caspian Sea with shipment capacity of ... - Date : Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:52:47 GMT+00:00
Kazakhstan: sea port Aktau lowered volumes of grain shipment - Agrimarket Consulting Tweet this news
Agrimarket Consulting--From the beginning of June, the grain terminal “Ak Bidaj Terminal” of Republican State Enterprise the -Aktau- International Sea Commercial Port shipped 10 ... - Date : Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:01:06 GMT+00:00
Security forces kill 23 militants in Orakzai - Central Asia Online Tweet this news
Central Asia Online--An exhibit comes to life at Mangistau Oblast museum's 'A Night in the Museum' in -Aktau-, Kazakhstan. Taking a cue from museums elsewhere, staff recruited ... - Date : Fri, 21 May 2010 22:44:14 GMT+00:00
Kazakh-Azerbaijani joint venture on Trans-Caspian oil transport systems ... - Trend News Agency (subscription) Tweet this news
Trend News Agency (subscription)---...- Pipeline Consortium), after its expansion, via the Chinese pipeline, as well as -Aktau--Baku-Batumi pipeline," said the head of Kazakh national company. ... - Date : Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:21:52 GMT+00:00



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