Postcard Kazakhstan made in 1970. The text on the postcard reads:”Lermontov Republican Russian Drama Theatre Almaty”.
Almaty is the capital of Kazakhstan. The high rise building is a hotel and the smaller building is the Almaty Palace of Schoolchildren.
Almaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population exceeding two million residents within its metropolitan area. Almaty stands as a pivotal center of culture, commerce, finance and innovation.
Almaty is the second-largest city in Central Asia and the third-largest in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Almaty served as the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1997 during the Soviet era and after independence from 1991 until the capital was relocated to Aqmola (now Astana) in 1997.
During World War II the government dramatically affected the city’s population and structures. To better organize the home front and concentrate industrial and material resources, the government evacuated 26,000 people and numerous industries from the European theatre of war to Almaty. Almaty hosted over 30 industrial facilities removed from the European section of the USSR, eight evacuated hospitals, 15 institutes, universities and technical schools; and around 20 cultural institutions. This brought in so many ethnic Russians that the Kazakhs became a minority in the region.