Alma-Ata

Alma Ata English Etymology en :bor ru:Алма́-Ата́ + 1 Proper noun en historical A former name of Almaty, previous capital of Kazakhstan. en https://archive.org/details/gatewaytoasiasin00nori/ 1944 Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West Martin R. Norins w:John Day Company 119 https://archive.org/details/gatewaytoasiasin00nori/page/118/mode/ Not until October, 1939, did Eurasia, through the medium of the newly formed Sino-Soviet Aviation Company, open a new service. It ran from Chungking to Ha-mi, whence, through the cooperation of Sinkiang authorities and the Soviet People's Aviation Company, it was continued via Tihwa, I-ning, and Alma-Ata (the latter over the border, in Soviet Kazakhstan) to Moscow. The trip from Chungking across Sinkiang to Alma-Ata totals about 2,584 miles and has become extremely important in United Nations mail and transport services. en https://archive.org/details/russochinesebord0000jack/mode 1962 W. A. Douglas Jackson The Russo-Chinese Borderlands: Zone of Peaceful Contact or Potential Conflict? D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 9 https://archive.org/details/russochinesebord0000jack/page/8/mode/ Not far inside the USSR, to the south of the Ili on the Turkestan-Siberian Railway, sits Alma-Ata, the capital of the Kazakh SSR. Founded by the Russians a century ago, it contains over 456,000 inhabitants, mainly Russian. From its position, the city is able to command the western approach to the upper Ili. Translations former name of Almaty Armenian: hy Ալմա Աթա Marathi: mr आल्मा-आता Russian: ru Алма́-Ата́ f