82 years ago the miners working settlement was transformed to the city of Karaganda (since 1936 regional center of Kazakhstan). It is considered that the city received the name from the bush called karaganda (a yellow acacia) which widespread in these area. There is a legend that in 1833 Appak Baizhanov found coal. At the end of the 19th century coal mining began firstly by the Russian merchants and then by French and English businessmen. Now Karaganda region is the largest on the territory and industrial potential, it is rich with minerals and raw materials. The territory of the region is 428 thousand km² (15,7% of total are of territory of Kazakhstan). Then tenth part of all population of the country lives there.
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