Temirtau

Temirtau (Kazakh: Теміртау, romanized: Temırtau; Russian: Темиртау) is a city in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan.The Samarkand settlement was granted city status on 1 October 1945, and renamed Temirtau ("Iron Mountain" in Kazakh).In 1959 there were a series of riots and insurrections among the workers, who were highly dissatisfied with the poor working and living conditions and the interruptions in the supply of water, food, goods, tools and other resources as a result of mistakes by the administration.During the 1970s a new sports complex was built, including a 50m swimming pool, a 15,000 capacity stadium, and an indoor ice-skating and hockey rink.On 29 July 1978 a Warrior Monument with an Eternal Flame was dedicated to the soldiers from Temirtau who had been killed in World War II.[7][8][9][10][11][12] Due to presence of large metallurgic plant in the city, Temirtau had been receiving significant sport infrastructure investments during soviet times in 1970-80-s.As a consequense of such massive modern infrastructure for relatively small population (about 200,000 inhabitants by 1980-s), Temirtau became one of the most successful sport cities in Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.The president awarded a Golden Star, honoring the veteran steelworker Arghyn Zhunyssov as a Hero of Labor of Kazakhstan.