Balkhash (Russian: Балхаш , IPA: [bɐɫˈxaʂ] ) or Balqash ( / b ɑː l ˈ k ɑː ʃ / , UK also / b æ l ˈ k æ ʃ / ; Kazakh : Balqaş / Балқаш [bɑʟ̠ˈqɑʃ] ) is a city in Kazakhstan , located on the northern shore of Lake Balkhash , on the Bay Bertys, and in the south of the Kazakh Uplands . The population of the city is 68,833 (2009 Census results); 65,431 (1999 Census results).
24-601: Balkhash may refer to: Places [ edit ] Balkhash (city) , a city at lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan Balkhash Lake , a lake in Kazakhstan Balkhash Airport , an airport near city Balkhash, Kazakhstan Balkhash District , a district in Almaty Province, Kazakhstan Balkhash-Alakol Basin Species [ edit ] Balkhash perch ,
48-864: A city district of a city of federal subject significance . This kind of administrative division is equal in status to the towns of district significance and selsoviets , and is normally centered on an inhabited locality with urban-type settlement status. As of 2013, the following types of such entities are recognized: As of January 1, 2018, there were 57 urban-type settlements in Tajikistan . As of February 1, 2016, there were 76 urban-type settlements in Turkmenistan . As of January 1, 2011, 1,065 settlements have urban-type settlement status in Uzbekistan . Urban-type settlements existed in Armenia until
72-410: A recreational potential with population of at least 2,000. In exceptional cases, administrative, economic and cultural centers with a potential of economical development and population growth can be classified as urban-type settlements. In modern Russia , the task of deciding whether an inhabited locality meets the criteria of urban-type settlements is delegated to the federal subjects . In most cases,
96-599: A single country. However, the criteria generally focus on the presence of urban infrastructure or resort facilities for urban residents. In the Soviet Union , the criteria of urban-type settlements were set independently by the Soviet republics. Those criteria, however, only differed very slightly from one republic to another. In the Russian SFSR , urban-type settlements were subdivided into three types: In 1981,
120-618: A species of perch found in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and China Balkhash marinka ( Schizothorax argentatus ), a species of ray-finned fish Other [ edit ] Balkhash , a ship of the Soviet Union, formerly the SS ; Manoa Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Balkhash . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
144-634: A state housing provided to no less than 2,000 inhabitants. The term was introduced in Ukraine in 1920s and became official since the resolution of the Central Executive Committee of Ukraine of October 28, 1925 replacing all towns (mistechko) as urban-type settlement. As of 2011, there were 256 urban-type settlements in Azerbaijan . According to a 1998 law of Belarus , there are three categories of urban-type settlement in
168-471: A teacher. In 1935, a section for parachuting was opened. Its first director was Dyusembayev. During the Great Patriotic War (Russian term for World War II ), most of the male population was conscripted into the military service and women replaced them in the copper factory. After World War II, Japanese war prisoners took part in the building of the city. In particular, they built buildings,
192-516: Is low throughout the year. Snow is common, though light, in winter. The lowest temperature on record is −41.2 °C (−42.2 °F), recorded in December 1938, and the highest temperature is 40.9 °C (105.6 °F), recorded in July 2005. Previously, this position was held by Alexander Agliulin. He voluntarily went to the post of akim of Balkhash town. "Erlan Koshanov presented the new head of
216-630: The Polish People's Republic from 1954 to 1972. Nowadays, Poland has cities, villages and settlements. Ukraine formerly used the urban-type settlement ( Ukrainian : селище міського типу, с.м.т.) system until 2023. In 1991 there were 921 urban-type settlements in Ukraine. On 24 October 2023 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Law No. 8263 that abolished the concepts of "urban-type settlement" and " rural-type settlement " in Ukraine . The law came into an effect on January 26, 2024. The law
240-555: The Soviet Union and later also for a short time in socialist Bulgaria and socialist Poland . It remains in use today in nine of the post-Soviet states . The designation was used in all 15 member republics of the Soviet Union from 1922. It was introduced later in Poland (1954) and Bulgaria (1964). All the urban-type settlements in Poland were transformed into other types of settlement (town or village) in 1972. In Bulgaria and five of
264-525: The city . It was the Taurbekov Oraz . Prior to the appointment, he headed the Department of economy , " - said the press Secretary of the akim of the region Marina Shapovalova on Facebook. Urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in
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#1732776357773288-489: The "Palace of Metallurgists" and the local airport. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, between 1992 and 1996, the city and its residents, like most former Soviet citizens, experienced an acute crisis, including power outages, weak central heating and intermittent operation of the copper factory. Some people cooked on fires in their yards; in winter they heated their apartments with potbelly stoves . Summer cottages served as an additional source of foodstuffs, contributing to
312-600: The 1990s. Currently, all of them have been converted into cities or villages. In Estonia, the urban-type settlements were created in 1945 during the Estonian SSR . In the 1990s most of them were transformed into cities. The urban-type settlements existed in Latvia from 1949 to 1993, when they were converted into cities and rural settlements. Lithuania formerly used the urban-type settlement ( Lithuanian : miesto tipo gyvenvietė , m.t.g. ) system until 1995. In Bulgaria,
336-570: The Central Executive Committee of the Kazakh SSR. In this way, the copper factory affected the city's appearance. On 9 November 1932, the first school was established in the city - school No. 1. The school educated a few children of the builders of the city that time. Among these children was Maria Nicolaevna Guseva (Halova). This school became a matter of her life: firstly she was one of the first pupils. Later, she became
360-739: The Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR defined an urban-type settlement as follows: "To the category of an urban-type settlement may be included any settlement located near industrial enterprises, buildings, railroad connections, hydro-technical constructions, and enterprises in production and refining of agrarian products as well as settlements that include higher or middle occupation educational establishments, science-researching institutions, sanatoria , and other stationary treatment and recreation establishments that have
384-773: The country: As of 2014, there were 47 urban-type settlements in Georgia . Eight of them are located on the territory of the partially recognized states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and are de facto not under the control of the Georgian government. As of 2019, there were 48 urban-type settlements in Kazakhstan . In accordance with the 2008 Law on Administrative and Territorial Subdivision of Kyrgyzstan , urban-type settlements are those that comprise economically significant facilities such as industrial plants, railway stations, construction sites, etc., as well as settlements with
408-430: The federal subject's legislative body is responsible for all administrative and territorial changes, including granting and revoking of the urban-type settlement and town status. Apart from being used to refer to a type of inhabited locality , the term "urban-type settlement" and its variations is also used to refer to a division of an administrative district , and sometimes to a division administratively subordinated to
432-463: The first urban-type settlements ( Bulgarian : селище от градски тип) were formed in 1964. In the 1990s they were transformed into villages and cities. The urban-type settlement system was used on the territory of Moldova since 1924. In the 1990s they were converted either into cities or rural settlements. The disputed and unrecognized Transnistria continues to use this system. The urban-type settlements ( Polish : osiedle typu miejskiego ) were used in
456-427: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Balkhash&oldid=1112696708 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Balkhash (city) Balkhash was founded in 1937 as an industrial city centred on
480-460: The mayor of Balkhash since 29 May 2012. Balkhash's city government also administers the urban-type settlements of Sayak (3669 people), Gulshat and Chubar-Tubek (625 people). In May 1997, the city of Balkhash was transferred from Dzhezkazgan Region to Qarağandy Region due to a boundary change. The combined population of the city and its urban area is 75,453 people (2010). The ethnic composition on 1 January 2010 was: In recent years,
504-462: The mining and smelting of copper , and copper is still being exploited in the area. The city lies approximately 500 km west of the Chinese border, on the north side of the lake at an altitude of 440 m. On 11 April 1937, a small worker's settlement "Pribalhashstroy", designed in connection with the construction of a copper factory - BGMC , was transformed into the city of Balkhash by decision of
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#1732776357773528-421: The number of Russian speakers is dramatically declining, but this is more than compensated by an influx of Kazakhs, who come mostly from rural areas, resulting in growth of the city's population after the substantial decline in the 1990s. Balkhash has a cool semi-arid climate ( Köppen climate classification BSk ) bordering on a cool arid climate ( BWk ) with very warm summers and frigid winters. Precipitation
552-637: The populace's survival. In the late 1990s, the city's and country's economies stabilised. A new neighborhood was built in the city, the so-called "Canadian cottages". All schools, medical facilities and the college started to function normally. Due to the appointment of former Mayor Kadyrzhan Teylyanova as Chairman of the Committee of Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan , Nurlan Erikbaevich Aubakirov (born 29.12.1975) has been
576-674: The post-Soviet republics ( Armenia , Moldova , and the three Baltic states ), they were changed in the early 1990s, while Ukraine followed suit in 2023. Today, this term is still used in the other nine post-Soviet republics – Azerbaijan , Belarus , Georgia , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Russia , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan . It is also used in Transnistria , an unrecognised breakaway state in Moldova. What counts as an urban-type settlement differs between time periods and countries and often between different divisions of
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