Altai (city)

Altai (Kazakh: Алтай, Russian: Алтай), until 2019 known as Zyryan (Kazakh: Зырян, romanized: Zyrian) or Zyryanovsk (Russian: Зыряновск) is a town of regional significance in East Kazakhstan Region of Kazakhstan, and the administrative center of the Altai District.

[1] Zyryanovsk is located in the Rudnyi Altai, on the banks of the Berezovka River, a left tributary of the Bukhtarma.

Zyrianovsk owed its establishment to the exploitation of a complex ore deposit, discovered in 1791 by a local inhabitant, G. G. Zyrianov.

The combine is educated from two mines (Maleevsky and Grekhovsky), concentrating factory, and non-productive departments.

There are 8 schools, 3 kindergartens, 3 public libraries, a Palace of Culture, equipment and sports, the Equipments-House.

Map of Altai Town (labeled as ZYRYANOVSK) and surrounding region from the International Map of the World (1965)