country_of_citizenship aleksandr khapsalis
Esik ( also spelled " Issyk ", " Yesik " and " Yesyk ") is a town in Almaty Region of ___MASK27___ , the administrative center of Enbekshikazakh District . It is located on the Issyk River , at the foot of the Tian Shan , 53 km east of Almaty and 112 km over the mountains from Issyk Kul Lake . Population : Talgar is a town in Almaty Region , southeastern ___MASK27___ . It is the administrative center of Talgar District . The town is located between Almaty and Esik , 25 km from Almaty and several kilometres east of Birlik . Population : Almaty (" Almat " ), formerly known as Alma - Ata and Verny , is the largest city in ___MASK27___ , with a population of 1 , 703 , 481 people , containing 9 % of the country ' s total population . Almaty is considered a World City with a " Beta -" classification according to GaWC . It served as capital of the Kazakh state in its various forms from 1929 to 1997 , under the influence of the then ___MASK98___ and its appointees . Alma - Ata was the host city for a 1978 international conference on Primary Health Care where the Alma Ata Declaration was adopted , marking a paradigm shift in global public health . In 1997 , the government relocated the capital to Astana in the north of the country . Almaty (" Almat obls ",   ) is a region of ___MASK27___ . Its capital is Taldykorgan , which has a population of 123 , 000 . Population of the region : ___MASK27___ ( " Qazaqstan ", " ___MASK27___ "), officially the Republic of ___MASK27___ (" Qazaqstan Respwblïkas " " Respublika ___MASK27___ "), is a transcontinental country in northern Central Asia and Eastern Europe . ___MASK27___ is the world ' s largest landlocked country , and the ninth largest in the world , with an area of . ___MASK27___ 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 . Talgar District is a district of Almaty Region in ___MASK27___ . The administrative center of the district is the town of Talgar . It consists of an alluvial apron formed by the Talgar River , extending northwards from the glacier peaks of the Trans - Ili Alatau ( topped by Talgar Peak , 4 , 973 m ), an extension of the northern flanks of the Tien Shan Mountains . Population : Aleksandr Antonovich Khapsalis ( Russian :    ) ( born October 17 , 1957 in Talgar ) is a retired Soviet football player , of Greek descent .