Karaganda - the city in the Karaganda area with the population about 560 thousand people and the fourth on a population in Kazakhstan.

The city is divided into 2 administrative areas: Kazibek Bi and October. Karaganda is well-known for the large enterprises for a coal mining, mechanical engineering, metal working and the food-processing industry, a considerable quantity of the enterprises of transport and communication.

And also in a city is available about 50 monuments of culture and history: the Palace of culture of miners, the Palace of sports of a name of N.Abdirov, theatre of K.Stanislavsky and S.Sejfullin, hotel "Seagull", a circus building, stadium "Miner", N.Abdirov monuments, Buhar jirau, to G.Mustafin, A.Bajzhanov, «miners Glory», fighting glory «Eternal fire», architecturally-memorial ensemble in honour of the soldiers-karagandintsev who were lost in Afghanistan and many other things. A symbol of the city of Karaganda is the monument «Miners Glory».