Kazakhstan's parliament on Wednesday voted to rename the country's capital in honour of long-time ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev, a day after he ...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan's parliament on Wednesday voted to rename the country's capital in honour of long-time ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev, a day after he resigned as president.
In his first official act, Tokayev asked that Astana - the gleaming new capital Nazarbayev erected in the country's vast steppes - be renamed Nursultan - which means"Sultan of Light" in Kazakh and other Turkic languages. It replaced Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty as the capital in 1997 and was transformed from a minor provincial town into a futuristic city.Its name meant"capital" in Kazakh and there had long been speculation it could at some point be renamed after the leader who shaped it.Astana was previously known as Akmolinsk, Tselinograd and Akmola.
The city is central to government propaganda highlighting the achievements of Nazarbayev's reign and his journey to build it was recently the subject of a state-funded film, Leader's Path: Astana.
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