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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of south-central Kazakhstan north of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Founded in the 1100s, it was taken by Russia in 1864.
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Mantrov-kz reports on his recent ride in a taxi in his town called Shymkent in the poorest southern part of Kazakhstan, when he was shocked by the sincerity of the cabman [ru]:
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Uzbekistan has virtually no international oil pipeline infrastructure except for a pipeline linking the Kazakhstani Shymkent refinery to the Chardzhou refinery in northeastern Turkmenistan.
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The three refineries in Atyrau, Pavlodar and Shymkent are still unable to meet domestic demand and export requirements, which explains why Kazakstan still imports a quarter of the fuel and lubricants it consumes from Russia, where these items cost more.
Kazaks Struggle With Oil and Food Prices IWPR 2008
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Other major cities include Shymkent, Semey, Aqtöbe, and Öskemen. continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
Kazakhstan The World Factbook 2008
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The lack of internal pipelines connecting Kazakhstan's natural gas-producing areas to the country's industrial belt (between Almaty and Shymkent) has hampered the development of natural gas resources.
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This pipeline snakes through Uzbekistan before reaching Shymkent, crosses Kyrgyzstan, and terminates in Almaty.
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The refining sector in Kazakhstan has three major oil refineries supplying the northern region (at Pavlodar), western region (at Atyrau), and southern region (at Shymkent), with total crude oil refining capacity of 345,093 bbl/d.
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The refinery at Pavlodar is supplied mainly by a crude oil pipeline from western Siberia (since Russian reserves are well placed geographically to serve that refinery); the Atyrau refinery runs solely on domestic crude from northwest Kazakhstan; and the Shymkent refinery currently uses oil from Kazakh fields at Kumkol, Aktyubinsk, and Makatinsk, although it is linked by pipeline to Russia.
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(Aqtau; formerly Shevchenko), Ongtustik Qazaqstan (Shymkent),
The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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(Aqtau; formerly Shevchenko), Ongtustik Qazaqstan (Shymkent),
The 2000 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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