Akmola

Formerly known as Akmola, the remote city of Astana was made Kazakhstan's new capital, possibly for reasons of national security.

1998, June 9 2001

Meanwhile, Astana, formerly known as Akmola, was an unremarkable regional center of about 200,000, known primarily as the home of one of the USSR's most notorious gulags , designed specifically to hold the wives of male dissidents.

Slate Magazine Joshua Kucera 2011

The old name, Akmola, translates to "" white grave. ''

A Leader's Legacy 2008

Akmola (city; former name Kazakhstan 51 10 N 71 30 E for Astana)

The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Astana (Akmola) (capital) Kazakhstan 51 10 N 71 30 E

The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

During the Soviet era, Akmola was based on the northern bank of the Ishim River, and that part of the city still retains the scrappy charm of the average small post-Soviet city, with its tsarist-era pink-and-yellow buildings and aboveground natural gas pipes.

Slate Magazine Joshua Kucera 2011

Inmates had barricaded themselves inside their cells at the site in the Akmola region,

BBC News - Home 2010

Regional police Departments for the Fight against Extremism, Separatism and Terrorism, which have raided or questioned Baptists in Akmola and North Kazakhstan Regions in June, refused to discuss their activity with Forum 18.

Forum 18 News Service 2010

Local Baptists told Forum 18 on 22 February that Christian magazines confiscated from church members in Iskra, in Akkol district of the central Akmola region, in January had been returned.

Forum 18 News Service 2009

ASTANA, July 5 (RIA Novosti) - Six people have died in a road crash in central Kazakhstan's Akmola province, the country's emergencies ministry reported.

RIA Novosti 2009