The akimats (administrations) of the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan and the Almaty Region joined forces with the Kazakh Tourism company, announcing that they will launch a unified mountain tourism ...

When the Soviets quit the test site in Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk region they left behind a "plutonium mountain" big enough to make 10 atomic bombs. Siegfried Hecker, the the chief American ...

who visited the region in Kazakhstan. Just forty minutes from the center of Almaty is the Medeu Alpine sports complex, where you can take the cableway to reach the Shymbulak mountain resort ...