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Karaganda

Karaganda (Russian: Караганда) or Qaraghandy (Kazakh: Қарағанды) is the capital of the audany (Russian oblast) of the same name in Kazakhstan. Pop. 437,000 (1999).

Karaganda was built as the industrial city using the slave work of prisoners of concentration camps.

It was the birthplace of Akhmad Kadyrov, the president of the Chechen Republic who died on 9 May 2004.

The name "Qaraghandy" approximately translates to "place rich in acacia".

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