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Aktau

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Aktau 

an urban-type settlement in Tel’man Raion, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakh SSR. It is on the Murza railroad station, 70 km north of Karaganda. Population, 16,000 (1968). Aktau’s industry centers on the production of building materials: a cement factory, asbestos-cement products, and others. There is also an industrial technicum.


Aktau 

until 1964 the name of the present-day city of Shevchenko, in Gur’ev Oblast, Kazakh SSR.



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Following Iran's protests at a meeting of several Caspian littoral states in the Kazakh city of Aktau last month, the participating leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan declared that they had decided to avoid discussions on the Caspian matters without Iran's presence at their meeting in a bid to comply with earlier agreements.
Representatives of the National Security State Committee attended the 27th session of the CIS Council of Heads of Special and Security Services in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on September 23-25.
lt;p>The talks, held in Turkmenbashy, the Caspian port city of Turkmenistan, were actually the continuation of consultations at presidential level that started a couple of days earlier in Aktau, the fast develping Caspian port of Kazakhstan.
 
 
 
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