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Ust-Kamenogorsk
Ust-Kamenogorsk (Kazakh: Өскемен, Russian: Усть-Каменогорск) or Öskemen, is the capital of the Shyghys Qazaqstan (Eastern Kazakhstan) Oblast.
Founded in 1720 at the confluence of the Irtysh and Ulba rivers as a fort and trading post, the city developed into a major mining and metallurgical center during the Soviet period.
Ust-Kamenogorsk is predominantly Russian, with ethnic Kazakhs constituting less than thirty percent of the total population of 305,000.
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