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Kazakh Little Horde's oath of allegiance to Russia
The Kazakh Little Horde's oath of allegiance to Russia was the 1731 act by which Abu'l Khayr Khan and Kazakh leaders swore submission to the Russian Empire.
Kazakh migration to Xinjiang (1916–1918)
The Kazakh migration to Xinjiang of 1916–1918 was the mass flight of Kazakh and Kyrgyz refugees from Russian Turkestan into China after the suppression of the 1916 uprising.
Kazakh revolt of 1783–1797
The Kazakh revolt of 1783–1797 was an armed uprising of the Junior Jüz Kazakhs against Khan Nuraly, the Ural Cossacks, and Russian rule, led by the batyr Syrym Datuly.
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (Қазақ Кеңестік Социалистік Республикасы)
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (Қазақ Кеңестік Социалистік Республикасы), or Kazakh SSR: Soviet union republic covering present-day Kazakhstan, 1936–1991, after the 1920 Kirghiz/Kazakh ASSR; marked by the 1930–33 famine, Virgin Lands agriculture, Semipalatinsk nuclear tests, and independence on 16 December 1991.
Kazakh Steppe
Kazakh Steppe (Kirghiz steppe): vast dry grassland of about 804,500 km² across Kazakhstan, from the Caspian Sea to the Altai Mountains; homeland of nomadic pastoralism, later ploughed under Soviet agriculture, now partly conserved at Saryarka.
Kazakh Uplands
Kazakh Uplands (Saryarqa, Сарыарқа), also Kazakh Melkosopochnik: eroded peneplain of low mountain ranges in central and eastern Kazakhstan, 300–1,565 m elevation, Paleozoic folded geology, steppe and semi-desert vegetation, UNESCO Saryarka site.
Kazakh uprising of 1930
The Kazakh uprising of 1930 was a series of armed revolts by Kazakh herders against forced collectivization, livestock procurements, and sedentarization, suppressed by OGPU and Red Army troops.
Kazakh–Dzungar Wars
The Kazakh–Dzungar Wars were conflicts between the Kazakh Khanate and the Dzungar Khanate of the Oirat Mongols, fought across the Kazakh steppe from the 17th century to 1757.
Kazakhfilm (Қазақфильм)
Kazakhfilm (Қазақфильм), the Shaken Aimanov National Film Studio, is Kazakhstan's state film studio in Almaty, founded 1934, renamed 1960, wartime producer of 80% of Soviet fiction films, with an 800-title catalog.
Kazakhmys Holding
Kazakhmys Holding (Қазақмыс Холдинг) is a Kazakh holding company, founded in 2021 by Vladimir Kim and Eduard Ogai as the parent of Kazakhstan's largest copper producer.
Kazakhs
Kazakhs (қазақтар) are the Turkic majority people of Kazakhstan: 13.4 million and 70.4% of the population at the 2021 census, historically nomadic herders, heirs of the 15th-century Kazakh Khanate, with a script history of Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic.
Kazakhstan (Қазақстан)
Kazakhstan (Қазақстан), the world's largest landlocked country and ninth-largest by area, with over 20 million people; a 2026 constitution created a unicameral Kurultai amid OSCE concerns over political pluralism.
Kazakhstan and weapons of mass destruction
Kazakhstan and weapons of mass destruction covers how Kazakhstan gave up the Soviet nuclear arsenal it inherited in 1991, closing the Semipalatinsk test site and joining the NPT.
Kazakhstan national football team
Kazakhstan national football team (KFF), UEFA member since 2002 after AFC years 1994-2002; never qualified for a World Cup or Euro; Astana Arena home; coach John van 't Schip.
Kazakhstan Premier League
Kazakhstan Premier League (Казахстанская Премьер-Лига), Kazakhstan's top men's football division since 1992; UEFA member since 2002; Kairat Almaty reigning champion, FC Astana record 7 titles.
Kazakhstan Stock Exchange
The Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) is Kazakhstan's main securities exchange, founded in 1993 as the Kazakh Inter-bank Currency Exchange, trading equities, bonds, currency, and money-market instruments.
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (Қазақстан темір жолы, "Kazakhstan Railways"), formally NC KTZ JSC, is Kazakhstan's state-owned national railway company, formed in 1997 and among the world's 15 largest by freight turnover.
Kazakhstan-China Pipeline (company)
Kazakhstan-China Pipeline LLP (KCP) is a Kazakh company, owned equally by KazTransOil and China's CNPC, that owns and operates the pipelines carrying crude from western Kazakhstan to China since 2006.
Kazakhstan–China Crude Oil Pipeline
The Kazakhstan–China Crude Oil Pipeline is a trunk oil pipeline from western Kazakhstan to Alashankou in China's Xinjiang region, first commissioned in 2006 with 20 million tonne annual capacity.
Kazakhstan's accession to the World Trade Organization
Kazakhstan's accession to the World Trade Organization was the process by which Kazakhstan joined the WTO as its 162nd member on 30 November 2015, after 19 years of negotiation.
Kazakhstan's OSCE chairmanship
Kazakhstan's OSCE chairmanship was Kazakhstan's 2010 tenure leading the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the first Central Asian and former Soviet state to hold the post.
Kazakhstani tenge
The Kazakhstani tenge (Kazakh tenge) is the national currency of Kazakhstan, subdivided into 100 tiyns and introduced on November 15, 1993, at 1 tenge = 500 rubles.
Kazal domain
Kazal domain: ~40-60 aa serine protease inhibitory domain (Pfam PF00050) named for Kazal's 1948 pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor; six conserved cysteines, three disulfides, P1-residue-determined specificity; SPINK5/LEKTI defects cause Netherton syndrome.
Kazallu
Kazallu, also known as Kazalla, was an ancient Mesopotamian city in northern Babylonia, the cult center of the war god Numušda, whose site remains unidentified.
Kazan (Казань)
Kazan (Казань; Tatar: Казан), capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, on the left bank of the Volga; a 1,000-year-old former khanate capital, home of the UNESCO-listed Kazan Kremlin, host of the 2013 Universiade and 2018 World Cup matches.
Kazan campaigns of Ivan IV and conquest of Kazan
The Kazan campaigns of Ivan IV were the Russian military operations that broke the Kazan Khanate, ending with Ivan IV's capture of Kazan in October 1552.
Kazan Federal University (Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет)
Kazan Federal University, formally Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, is a public university in Kazan, Russia, founded in 1804 as the Imperial Kazan University, one of Russia's oldest, associated with Lobachevsky and the discovery of ruthenium.
Kazan Governorate
Kazan Governorate (Казанская губерния) was a governorate of the Russian Empire created in 1708, stretching from Nizhny Novgorod to Astrakhan and covering the Middle Volga region until 1920.
Kazan Zoobotanical Garden
Казанский зооботанический сад (Kazan Zoobotanical Garden), Kazan, Russia: botanical garden founded 1806 by Karl Fuchs at Kazan University, merged with the city zoo in 1931; oldest in Russia, EAZA member, two territories.
Kazane Höyük
Kazane Höyük, a Bronze Age city mound near Şanlıurfa, Turkey, at the northern Harran plain; occupied from ca. 6000 BC, it grew to 100 ha by the mid-third millennium BC.