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Karagandy
City in Karagandy Region, Kazakhstan

Karagandy

Karaganda or Karagandy is a major city in central Kazakhstan and the capital of the Karaganda Region.

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It is the fifth-most populous city in the country, with a population of 497,777 as of the 2020 Census, marking an increase from 459,778 in 2009 and 436,864 in 1999. Karaganda is located approximately 230 kilometers southeast of Kazakhstan's capital city, Astana.

Get in

Getting to Karagandy

By plane:

  1. 01
    Sary-Arka
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Karaganda Regional Museum
  2. 02
    Ecomuseum at 47 Buqar-Jyrau
  3. 03
    Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima
  4. 04
    Cathedral of Archangel Michael
  5. 05
    Karaganda Zoo
Do

Things to do

Central Park surrounds a small lake. Just west of it, the Children's Railway is a 5 km loop of 750 mm gauge diesel-hauled railway, originally intended as a training track for young pioneers. It's lurched from one financial debacle to another, with lengthy closures, but was again running in summer 2019. Theatre: the Kazakh Drama Theatre is at

Eat

Where to eat

There's a slew of eateries along Buqar-Jyrau, with other strips along the cross-streets of Nurken Abdirov and Mira. Vegetarians and vegans should check out Kafe Rada IK at

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Satkangulov (CC BY-SA 3.0), Wikimedia Commons.