Official Name: | Stepnogorsk |
Native Name: | Степногорск |
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: | Akmola Region |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Government Type: | Mayor-council government |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Kairzhanov Alpysbay |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2009 |
Population Total: | 46,712 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Utc Offset: | +5 |
Coordinates: | 52.3497°N 71.89°W |
Stepnogorsk (Kazakh: Степногорск|translit=Stepnogorsk; Russian: Степногорск) is a town in Akmola Region, Kazakhstan.
Stepnogorsk was established in 1959, and has been a town since 1964. It began as a closed town with code names Tselinograd-25 (Russian: Целиноград-25), Makinsk-2 (Russian: Макинск-2). The town is known as a nuclear and biochemical site,[1] which was known as the Stepnogorsk Scientific and Technical Institute for Microbiology.