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World Partners Adoption - Specializing in International Adoption of Children from Kazakhstan, Russia, and around the World!
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Kazakhstan is the second largest country, geographically, to come out of the former USSR and possess enormous untapped natural resources. Oil is abundant, with the world's tenth largest reserves and a plentiful supply of other minerals and metals. It also has considerable agricultural potential as well, as the steppe lands are perfect for livestock and grain production.
Kazakstan is roughly five times the size of France or slightly over one-third the size of the continental United States. It shares borders with China to the East, Russia to the North, Uzbekistan to the West and Kirghizian to the south.
At the end of the 14th century the Kazaks began to appear as a distinct Turkic-speaking people. Living as nomadic shepherds each clan was like a nation unto itself and eventually several of these clans came together to form one Kazak nation, but by 1730 they were already seeking Russian assistance to help in their struggle against Mongolian invaders. As history would show, this turned out to be a mixed blessing. With the communist takeover in 1917, the Soviet Union took the land as State property and under Stalin close to 2 million Kazaks died. After World War Two, so many Russians moved to Kazakstan that the Kazaks became a minority in their own country. Migrating Russians began to threaten the Kazak way of life. As a republic within the USSR (1920-91), Kazakhstan suffered greatly from Stalinist purges, from environmental damage, and saw the ethnic Russian portion of its population rise to 37% while other non-Kazakhs made up almost 20%.
