Tselinograd


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Tse·lin·o·grad

 (tsə-lĭn′ə-gräd′)
See Astana.

Tselinograd

(Russian tsəlɪnaˈɡrat)
n
(Placename) a former name (1961–94) for Astana

Tse•li•no•grad

(tsəˈlɪn əˌgræd, -ˌgrɑd, -ˈli nə-)

n.
a former name of Akmola.
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The first witnessed its birth as a Soviet regional industrial center renamed Tselinograd, where a number of major factories aimed to produce an agricultural revolution in this provincial backwater.
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In the 1950s, the city became the center of Khrushchev's Virgin Lands campaign and was renamed Tselinograd.
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Massimov was born in 1965 in Tselinograd (Kazakhstan).
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