Nura District ( kk, Нұра ауданы, ) is a
district
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of
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 ...
in central
Kazakhstan
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. The administrative center of the district is the settlement of
Kievka.
The district has a population of 22,569 as of 2019.
History
During the 1890s, a number of
Ukrainians
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,
Russians
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Germans
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began constructing settlements in the area, which was already home to approximately 330 villages of the native
Kazakh people.
On April 19, 1923, by order of the Kirghiz SSR, the Nurinsk Volost was created as part of the Akmola Uyezd.
On March 10, 1932, the Nurinsk Volost joined the newly created
Karagandy Oblast.
became the district's administrative center in 1934.
The 1930s saw a number of modernization programs implemented in the district, with
electricity
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,
telephone
A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into e ...
s, and
postal services
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being introduced.
16 schools were erected as part of a wider Soviet program to combat illiteracy known as
likbez
Likbez (russian: ликбе́з, ; from a Russian abbreviation for russian: ликвида́ция безгра́мотности, translit=likvidatsiya bezgramotnosti, label=none, , meaning "elimination of illiteracy") was a campaign of eradicat ...
.
During World War II, over 3,000 people from the district fought in the war, and 1,083 died in battle.
Two residents of the district were awarded the
Hero of the Soviet Union
The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...
medal.
From 1954 to 1957, 7 state farms were created in the district as part of the
Virgin Lands Program.
Demographics
Nura has suffered considerable population decline in post-Soviet times, with population falling from , down to , to 22,569 as of 2019.
Ethnic composition
Notable people
*
Nikolai Alexeyevich Kuznetsov, Soviet aviator
References
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Districts of Kazakhstan
Karaganda Region