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Aktau

Mangystau Province, Kazakhstan
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About Aktau

Aktau is a town in Kazakhstan, positioned at the Eastern shore of the Caspian Sea. Its current name method "white mountain" in Kazakh, which may be due to its cliffs that neglect the Caspian. From 1964 to 1991 metropolis became referred to as Shevchenko. Its former name become given because of the eponymous Ukrainian poet's length of exile inside the area. It is located at the Mangyshlak Peninsula and is the capital of Mangystau Region. Aktau is understood for its unique block address gadget.

Almost no streets in Aktau have names; as a substitute, addresses generally encompass three numbers: the district quantity additionally referred to as micro-region/micro-district/block, the building range, and the condominium quantity. This is because Aktau changed into at the beginning deliberate as a camp for the employees of the oil industry. The territory of what is now Aktau changed into as soon as inhabited by means of historic tribes of Scythians. Archeological finds inside the place consist of antique settlements and utensils. The current territory of Mangystau hosted a spur route of the northern silk road, which resulted inside the founding of numerous Sufi shrines in Aktau's region.

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