Semey
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Semey (Kazakh: Семей), formerly known as Semipalatinsk (Russian: Семипала́тинск, until 2007) and Alash-kala (Kazakh: Алаш-қала / Alaş-qala, 1917–1920), is a city in Kazakhstan with population of around 300,000 people.
Understand
Get in
By plane
Semey Airporthas flights from Almaty and Astana.
By train
Train connections include Almaty, Astana via Pavlodar and Novosibirsk.By bus
See
- "Silnee Smerti" (Stronger than death) Memorial to the victims of nuclear testing, Polkovnichiy Island.
- The Semipalatinsk Bridge
Religious buildings
Museums
Abai Museum
Dostoyevsky Museum
East Kazakhstan Regional Museum of Fine ArtsThe largest art museum in Kazakhstan, over 3500 artworks.
Do
- Enlik-Kebek cinema
Go next
- Omsk and Novosibirsk in Russia
- Oskemen
- Pavlodar