Alatau, Medeu District, Almaty should not be confused with Alatau, Almaty Region.
| Official Name: | Alatau |
| Pushpin Map: | Kazakhstan |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Kazakhstan |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Kazakhstan |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Almaty Region |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Utc Offset: | +6 |
| Coordinates: | 43.3575°N 77.1444°W |
Alatau (Алатау, Alatau; from Turkic languages: "motley mountain") is a settlement 25 km. off Almaty, south-eastern Kazakhstan. Administratively, it is included in the Medeu District of Almaty and informally recognized as a microdistrict of Almaty.[1]
The settlement was established in 1957 as an unnamed settlement for scientific institutions and their workers. Now it has, Kazakhstan National Nuclear Center (formerly of the Kazakh SSR Academy of Sciences) with an experimental nuclear reactor and cyclotron, Physis and Technology Institute, as well as the special economical zone "Innovation Technology Park".[1]