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Petropavl
Summary
Petropavl (Petropavl , Petropavlovsk) is a city on the Ishim River in northern Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia. It is the capital of the North Kazakhstan Region. Population: 218,956. The city is also known colloquially in Kazakh as Qyzyljar ().
Petropavlovsk is about from Kokshetau, northwest of the national capital Astana along the A1, from Omsk.
Petropavl is located in the southwestern part of the West Siberian Plain, on the right bank of the Ishim river, the longest tributary of the Irtysh river. Not far from Petropavl there are many lakes and ponds, for example: Lake Bolshoe Beloe, Lake Pestroye, Lake Kishtibish, Lake Maloe Beloe and Bitter lake. Also, within the city can be found small forests, mostly consisting of birches and pine plantations.
The climate is a dry version of the humid continental (Köppen Dfb) type, with sharp winter-summer temperature fluctuations. In spring, prevails clear and dry weather, with a large number of sunny days. Summers are quite hot, with a predominance of clear, often dry weather, in some years the rains can be of different frequencies, from rare and up to passing to a cloudy and rainy summer. Autumn begins in August or September, and the weather is observed from clear at the beginning of the season, to cloudy in October–November. Winter is frosty and long (more than 5 months), with a stable snow cover up to high on average, with the predominance of clear weather, in some years with infrequent snowstorms and blizzards.
Based on 1981 to 2010 means:
The average annual temperature is .
The average relative humidity of the air is 73.8%.
The average wind speed is .
The average annual precipitation is .
Population by Declared Ethnicity (At the beginning of 2020):
Russians — 129,970 people (59.28%);
Kazakhs — 65,739 people (29.99%);
Tatars — 6573 people (3,00 %);
Ukrainians — 4,500 people (2,05 %);
Germans — 4237 people (1.93%);
Poles — 1036 people (0.47%);
Belarusians — 969 people (0.44%);
Azerbaijanis — 931 people (0.42%);
Armenians — 921 people (0.42%);
Tajiks — 886 people (0.
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