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Kazakhstan ( " Qazaqstan ", " Kazakhstan "), officially the ___MASK59___ of Kazakhstan (" Qazaqstan Respwblïkas " " Respublika Kazakhstan "), is a ___MASK5___ in northern Central Asia and Eastern Europe . Kazakhstan is the world ' s largest landlocked country , and the ninth largest in the world , with an area of . Kazakhstan is the dominant nation of Central Asia economically , generating 60 % of the region ' s GDP , primarily through its oil / gas industry . It also has vast mineral resources . Naberezhnye Chelny is the second largest ___MASK60___ in the ___MASK59___ of Tatarstan , Russia . A major industrial center , Naberezhnye Chelny stands on the Kama River east of Kazan near Nizhnekamsk Reservoir . Population : A ___MASK32___ ( United States , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , Puerto Rico and Pakistan ; also called a lorry in the United Kingdom , Ireland , South Africa , ___MASK75___ , Singapore , and ___MASK41___ ) is a motor ___MASK89___ designed to transport cargo . Trucks vary greatly in size , power , and configuration ; smaller varieties may be mechanically similar to some automobiles . Commercial trucks can be very large and powerful , and may be configured to mount specialized equipment , such as in the case of fire trucks and concrete mixers and suction excavators . Eastern Europe , also known as East Europe , is the eastern ___MASK14___ of the European ___MASK26___ . There is no consensus on the precise area it covers , partly because the term has a wide range of geopolitical , geographical , cultural , and socioeconomic connotations . There are " almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region ". A related United Nations paper adds that " every assessment of spatial identities is essentially a social and cultural construct ". The Dakar ___MASK47___ ( or simply " The Dakar "; formerly known as the " Paris  Dakar ___MASK47___ ") is an annual ___MASK82___ organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation . Most events since the inception in 1978 were from Paris , France , to Dakar , Senegal , but due to security threats in Mauritania , which led to the cancellation of the 2008 rally , races since 2009 have been held in South America . The race is open to amateur and professional entries , amateurs typically making up about eighty percent of the participants . Central Asia or Middle Asia is the core ___MASK96___ of the Asian ___MASK26___ and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north . It is also colloquially referred to as " the ' stans " ( as the six countries generally considered to be within the ___MASK96___ all have names ending with the Persian suffix "- stan ", meaning " land of ") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian ___MASK26___ . The BPM - 97 ( Boyevaya Pogranichnaya Mashina - `` Battle ___MASK89___ of the Border Guard '' ) or  ( Vystrel ) is the Russian military designation for the KAMAZ 43269 Vystrel 4 × 4 wheeled mine - resistant , ambush protected ( MRAP ) ___MASK89___ . It is produced fitted with several different turrets like the one of the BTR - 80A . The ___MASK89___ is based on the KAMAZ - 43269 and as the name suggests was designed for the Russian Border Guards . The latest model has bulletproof side windows and no gun turret . It has been ordered by Kazakhstan and by the MVD Internal Troops , Federal Prison Service and EMERCOM . The Kazakhs ( also spelled Kazaks , Qazaqs , , ; the ___MASK24___ is transliterated from Russian ) are a Turkic ___MASK76___ who mainly inhabit the southern part of Eastern Europe Ural mountains and northern parts of Central Asia ( largely Kazakhstan , but also found in parts of Uzbekistan , China , Russia and Mongolia ), the region also known as Eurasian sub - ___MASK26___ . Kazakh identity is of medieval origin and was strongly shaped by the foundation of the Kazakh Khanate between 1456 and 1465 , when several tribes under the rule of the sultans Zhanibek and Kerey departed from the Khanate of Abu ' l - Khayr Khan . KAMAZ (      / Kamskiy Avtomobilny Zavod  translated : Kama ___MASK63___ Plant ) is a Russian truck manufacturer located in Naberezhnye Chelny , Tatarstan , Russian Federation . KAMAZ opened its doors in 1976 . Today , heavy duty models are exported to many areas of the world including the CIS , Latin America , the Middle East , Africa . The trucks have won the Dakar Rally a record thirteen times . KAMAZ is the largest truck producer in Russia and the CIS . The factory produces 43 , 000 trucks a year ( 2014 ). Reinforced KAMAZ trucks are used by the Russian army . The BTR - 70 is an eight - wheeled ___MASK20___ (/" Bronetransporter ", or literally " Armoured Transporter ") originally developed during the late 1960s under the industrial designator GAZ - 4905 . On August 21 , 1972 , it was accepted into service and would later be exported to the Warsaw Pact and other allies . Introduced as a successor to the earlier BTR - 60 , it most closely resembles a BTR - 60PB . Improvements include heavier armor plating and tires less prone to puncture . In other respects , the vehicle is very similar to the BTR - 60PB , both vehicles having a roof - mounted turret equipped with a heavy machine gun and a secondary co - axial PKT machine gun , but with a more powerful petrol engine configuration . The BTR - 80 (/ Bronetransporter , literally " Armoured Transporter ") is an 8x8 wheeled amphibious armoured personnel carrier ( APC ) designed in the USSR . It was adopted in 1986 and replaced the previous vehicles , the BTR - 60 and BTR - 70 , in the Soviet ___MASK36___ . It was first deployed during the Soviet war in Afghanistan . Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian ___MASK88___ , is a country in Eurasia . At , Russia is the largest country in the world by ___MASK38___ area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European Russia . Russia ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . A landlocked ___MASK54___ or landlocked country is a ___MASK72___ entirely enclosed by land , or whose only coastlines lie on closed seas . There are currently 48 such countries , including four partially recognised states . Only two , Bolivia and Paraguay in South America , lie outside Afro - Eurasia ( the Old World ). Tatarstan , officially the ___MASK59___ of Tatarstan is a federal subject ( a ___MASK59___ ) of the Russian Federation , located in the Volga Federal District . Its ___MASK53___ is the city of Kazan . The ___MASK59___ borders Kirov , Ulyanovsk , Samara , and Orenburg Oblasts , the Mari El , Udmurt , and Chuvash Republics , and the ___MASK59___ of Bashkortostan . The area of the ___MASK59___ is . The unofficial Tatarstan motto is : " Bez Buldrabz !" (" We can !"). As of the 2010 Census the population of Tatarstan was 3 , 786 , 488 .