Whither Kazakstan? Changing Capitals
From Almaty to Aqmola/Astana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11047181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry R Huttenbach (City College of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 581-587 |
| Publication date | 1998-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00905999808408586 |
| OpenAlex | W2088837785 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
On 10 December 1997, accompanied by much pomp and fanfare, President Nursultan Nazarbaev triumphantly declared Aqmola to be the new capital of Kazakstan in accordance with a 1995 decree he had signed in Almaty. Henceforth, he ordered, all official state business would be transferred from Almaty to Aqmola as expeditiously as possible. Even more dramatic was the context in which President Nazarbaev chose to make the announcement, namely, in the company of the then Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomydrin. Clearly, the intention was, once again, to impress on Moscow Nazarbaev's determination to demonstrate specifically to Russia his personal commitment to transform Kazakstan into a genuine, independent post-Soviet state, or so one could interpret the timing of the event. But, before subjecting the long move from Almaty to Aqmola to further analysis, it might help to bring some perspective to the phenomenon of capital shifting, a practice that dates back at least to classical times
Ancient history · Capital (architecture · Chose · Context (archaeology · Decree · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · State (computer science · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Russia and Soviet political economy · Soviet and Russian History
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |