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Alma-Ata

British  
/ ɑlˈmaaˈta /

noun

  1. the former name of Almaty

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

According to officials in Alma-Ata, the demonstrators were angered not so much by Kunaev's dismissal as by the decision to replace him with an outsider, Russian or not.

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

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