Information about the region

Alatau district (kaz. Alatau audany) is an administrative-territorial unit of the city of Almaty. It was formed in 2008[3]. In 1993, the Alatau district was annexed to the Auezovsky district and expanded it from the south side. In 2008, the newly created Alatau district appeared as a result of the unbundling of the Auezovsky district, which separated from it, its part north of Ryskulov Avenue. The administrative center of the district is located in the Shanyrak microdistrict. Geographically, the districts of the same name (Alatau before 1993 and after 2008) are located in different places.

Almaly district (kaz. Almaly Audany) is an administrative-territorial unit in the central part of the city of Alma-Ata. The Stalinsky district was formed on September 14, 1936 by the decision of the Alma-Ata City Council of People's Deputies of the city of Alma-Ata. On March 10, 1957, the Stalinsky district was renamed the Soviet District[4]. On December 12, 1995, the Sovetsky district was renamed Almalinsky District[5]. Almaly district is located in the very center of the city. This district has been the administrative center and the center of the social and cultural life of Alma-Ata for many years.

Auezovsky district is an administrative-territorial unit of the city of Alma-Ata. It was formed on March 10, 1972 by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR.

Bostandyk district is an administrative-territorial unit of the city of Alma-Ata. It was formed in 1966. Kalininsky district appeared in accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR dated January 31, 1966. The district was formed in connection with the expansion of the territory, the city at the expense of adjacent lands and the unbundling of the Soviet district, and in 1997 it was renamed Bostandyk.

Medeu district is the largest administrative, industrial and cultural center of Almaty, considered one of the elite districts of the city. The old name is Frunzensky district. In 1995, it was renamed Medeu. District boundaries: from Al-Farabi Ave. to the north along the eastern side of the ave. Nazarbayev to ave. Raiymbek; on the south side of the ave. Raiymbek to the east to the Malaya Almatinka River; along the east side of the Malaya Almatinka River to the north to the city border; along the city border to the intersection with the road to the Koktobe sanatorium to Al-Farabi Ave.; along Al-Farabi Ave. to the northeast to Nazarbayev, including the microdistricts of Atyrau, Duman, Koktobe, Koktobe-2, Zhana-Koktobe, Butakovka, Tau-Samal, village Alatau, Medeo tract, Shymkent.

Nauryzbaysky district (kaz. Nauryzbay audany) is an administrative-territorial unit of the city of Alma-Ata. It was formed in 2014. On July 2, 2014, at the extraordinary XXIX session of the Maslikhat, a decision was made on the formation of a new Nauryzbay district.

Turksib district (before 1995 — Oktyabrsky district) is an administrative and territorial unit in the northern part of the city of Alma-Ata. By the decision of the Presidium of the CEC of the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of 12.09.1936, the boundaries of the district were approved in Alma-Ata. On April 8, 1938, a decision was made at a meeting of the bureau of the Central Committee of the CP (b) of Kazakhstan "on the organization of a new Kaganovich district". On April 19, 1938, the territorial boundaries of the district were established at the presidium of the City Council and the Kaganovich district was organized with the center at the Alma-Ata I station. In July 1957, the Kaganovich district was renamed Oktyabrsky. On December 12, 1995, in connection with the celebration of the Independence Day of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the upcoming seventieth anniversary of the construction of the Turkestan-Siberian Railway, the district was renamed Turksib. The district is an industrial area, the air and railway gates of the city.

Zhetysu district is an administrative-territorial unit of the city of Alma-Ata. It was formed in 1936 as the Leninsky district. On December 12, 1995, it was renamed Zhetysu.