Pavlodar

Pavlodar is a metropolis in northeastern Kazakhstan and the capital of Pavlodar Region. It is located 450 km northeast of the country wide capital Nur-Sultan, and 405 km southeast of the Russian city of Omsk along the Irtysh River. As of 2010, the metropolis has a population of 331,710. The populace of Pavlodar consists predominantly of ethnic Russians and Kazakhs with massive Ukrainian, German and Tatar minorities. The town is served by means of Pavlodar Airport. One of the oldest towns in northern Kazakhstan, Pavlodar changed into founded in 1720 as Koryakovsky, an Imperial Russian outpost.

The settlement became created to establish manage over the area's salt lakes, an crucial source of treasured salt. In 1861 the settlement became renamed Pavlodar and integrated as a city. Pavlodar's significance become due in huge degree to the great agricultural and salt-generating industries that had developed there no matter the town's relatively small population. Pavlodar's populace numbered best about 8,000 in 1897. The name Pavlodar method The Gift of Paul, and turned into chosen to commemorate the beginning of the Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia.