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Karaganda
Karaganda
(or Qaraghandy) is the capital of the
oblysy
(
oblast
) of the same name in
Kazakhstan
. Its population is about 437,000 (1999).
It was the birthplace of
Akhmad Kadyrov
, the current president of the
Chechen Republic