Abay ( kk, Абай, ''Abai'') is a town (since 1961) located in central
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
, and has served as the
capital
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of
Abay District in
Karaganda Region
Karaganda Region ( kk, Qarağandy oblysy; russian: Карагандинская область, translit=Karagandinskaja oblast′), also spelled Qaraghandy Region, is a region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Karaganda.
On 17 March 2022 it was an ...
since 2002. Population:
Abay was founded in 1949 as a
coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...
settlement with the name Sherubay-Noora ( kz, Шерубай-Нұра, ''Şerubai-Nūra''; russian: Чурубай-Нура, ''Churubay-Nura''). In 1961, it was renamed ''Abay'', after
Abay Qunanbayuli
Ibrahim (Abai) Qunanbaiuly ( kk, Абай Құнанбайұлы, ; russian: Абай Кунанбаев; ) was a Kazakh poet, composer and Hanafi Maturidi theologian philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultu ...
, a
Kazakh poet, composer and philosopher.
Sport
In 2014 a team from Abay participated in the national championships in
bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...
for junior players born in 1996 and younge
References
Populated places in Karaganda Region
Populated places established in 1949
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