Temirtau

Temirtau is a city in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan. The populace turned into one hundred seventy,481 inside the 1999 census, growing to 210,590 in 2015. The town is located at the Nura River, northwest of Karaganda. The first businesses of settlers to settle within the region had been 40 families from Samara, who settled on the left financial institution of the Nura River on 15 June 1905. The settlement they based was named Zhaur, after a hill on the alternative facet of the river. In 1909 the settlement was renamed Samarkandsky. The first faculty and the first hospital have been built in 1911.

In 1933 the Samarkandsky-Karaganda water conduit turned into constructed to facilitate the development of the Karaganda coal subject. In 1939 a 20-with the aid of-300-metre dam was constructed throughout the Nura River, creating the Samarkand water reservoir, which would continue to be until 1961. Construction of the Karaganda State Regional Electric Power Station started in 1934, and the first turbine came online in 1942. In 1944, regardless of being still under creation, the Kazakh Steel Mill yielded its first steel, smelted in an open-fire Siemens-Martin furnace.