Olmaliq ( Uzbek : Olmaliq / Олмалиқ , Russian : Алмалык , romanized : Almalyk ) is a district-level city (2021 pop 133,400) in the Tashkent Region of central Uzbekistan , approximately 65 km east of Tashkent . It is located at latitude 40° 50' 41N; longitude 69° 35' 54E; at an altitude of 585 meters.
4-586: (Redirected from Almaliq ) Almalyk , Almalıq or Almaliq may refer to: Olmaliq , formerly "Almalyk", a city in Uzbekistan Almaliq, Xinjiang , a medieval city in China Almalıq , a village in Azerbaijan [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
8-522: Is a company town developed by the Soviet Union in the 1930s, to exploit local reserves of copper , lead , zinc , gold , silver and barite . The town contains several enormous smelting facilities and related industries operated today by JSC Almalyk MMC, one of the largest mining-metallurgical enterprises in Uzbekistan. The smelter operations have extensively contaminated Almalyk, which
12-485: Is considered one of the most polluted places on earth. The air has high concentrations of sulfuric acid fumes and the ground has hundreds of tons of toxic waste . The Uzbek government has resisted calls to close the plant, arguing that the country's economy cannot afford to do so: The plant employs around 25,000 residents of the city, and accounts for a substantial share of the region's economy. However, in January 2005
16-453: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Almalyk&oldid=1258765868 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Olmaliq Olmaliq
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