Petropavl

See also: Petropavlovsk

Petropavl or Petropavlovsk (in and in) is a city of the Kazakhstan. Petropavl is located in the north of the country, close to the border with the Fédération of Russia, with 350km in the west of the Russian city of Omsk.

The railway line Transsibérien passed originally by Petropavl but the principal line remains from now on in Russian territory and passes a little more to north.

With the last estimate of 1999, the city counted 203.400 inhabitants. Petropavl is the capital of the Oblys of septentrional Kazakhstan. The city was built on the river Esil.

Petropavlovsk was founded in 1752 like an outpost of the Russian army to control the wandering populations of the steppe. It obtains the statute of city in 1807. Petropavlovsk thrived thanks to its role of shopping mall specialized in the Soie and the carpets, and this until the Russian Révolution in 1917. After 1917, the city is industrialized little by little. With the removal of Soviet heavy industries beyond the the Ural at the time of the German invasion in 1941, Petropavlovsk still believes and develops industrial activities in agricultural machinery and the small engines, like in the treatment of the Cuir.

After the independence of Kazakhstan of the the Community of the independent States in 1991, the city becomes Kazakh. Its name is transformed of Petropavlovsk into Petropavl shortly after.

It is also the town of birth of the cyclist Alexandre Vinokourov.

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