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Alma-Ata

British  
/ ɑlˈmaaˈta /

noun

  1. the former name of Almaty

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Imagine the relief that would suffuse you if, while nibbling zakuski with a group of oilmen from Kazakhstan, you knew to call their largest city Almaty — rather than its Soviet name, Alma-Ata.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2014

He was the primary consultant to the World Health Organization on the international Alma-Ata Declaration, adopted at a 1978 conference in Alma-Ata, now Altmaty, Kazakhstan.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2010

In it, Zhirinovsky recounts in extravagant detail the injustices of an emotionally and economically deprived childhood in Alma-Ata, the capital of Kazakhstan.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was more death and damage in Alma-Ata than was at first reported in the Soviet media.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gairat Sapargaliyev, a law professor in Alma-Ata, said: "Afghanistan is, after all, a country on our own border!"

From Time Magazine Archive