Shchuchinsk

Shchuchinsk

Kazak  Shchūchinsk , also spelled  Ščučinsk 

      city, northern Kazakhstan, on Lake Shchuchye. It was founded in 1828 as a Cossack settlement and is the centre of a large agricultural area. Shchuchinsk is also a health resort and the railway station for the leading Kazakhstan health resort, Borovoye, which is 15 miles (25 km) away. In the vicinity are the Kazak Forestry Research Institute and a noted arboretum. Pop. (1991 est.) 56,000.

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