Semey

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Semey is a city in northeastern Kazakhstan known historically as Semipalatinsk, situated along the Irtysh River and notable for its cultural heritage and proximity to the former Soviet nuclear test site.

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Label Occurrences
Semey canonical 8
Уральск 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf city
alsoKnownAs Semipalatinsk
belongsTo Central Asia
climate continental climate
country Kazakhstan
countrySubdivision Abai Region
formerName Semipalatinsk
hasAirport Semey Airport
hasBridgeOver Irtysh River
hasCulturalSite Abai Museum
Literary and Memorial Museum of Dostoevsky
hasEconomicActivity education
industry
transport
hasEnvironmentalIssue radiation exposure from nearby test site
hasFunction administrative center
cultural center
hasHeritage cultural heritage
hasHistoricalRole center of Russian exile in 19th century
hasNearbyFeature Irtysh River floodplain
hasNotableInstitution Dostoevsky Museum
Semey State Medical University
Shakarim University of Semey
hasNotablePerson Abai Qunanbaiuly
Fyodor Dostoevsky
hasPopulationCharacteristic multiethnic population
hasTransport highway connections
railway junction
river port
historicalNameUntil Semipalatinsk until 2007
historicalRegion Kazakh Steppe
linked to: Saryarka steppe
isRegionalCenterOf Abai Region
languageUsed Kazakh
Russian
locatedIn Abai Region
East Kazakhstan Region
northeastern Kazakhstan
locatedOn Asian Highway network
locatedOnRiver Irtysh River
locatedOnTransportRoute Turkestan–Siberia Railway
nativeNameLanguage kk
ru
near Semipalatinsk Test Site
former Soviet nuclear test site
partOf Kazakhstan
regionCode KZ-10
timezone UTC+6

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Irtysh River flowsThrough Semey
Uralsk RussianName Уральск
subject linked to: Uralsk (Russian name)
linked to: Semey