Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population ... A few years after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the national capital was moved to Astana.
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It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate ... None. Successes: Kazakhstan exports oil and hosts the training and launch site for the Russian space ...