Almaty city It will be my first record on italki. I decided to devote it to my home town - Almaty. Almaty is the largest and most important city in Kazakhstan. It is sutuated on the southeast of the country. Because of it we have very high and beautiful mountines on the south. Some of our pinnacles are above 5000 metres. It's also a main reason why we have several nice ski resorts. Besides that we have several hang-glider and para-glider clubs here. If it'll be interesting for you I can write about them and about fly-sports in my future records. I'm a hang-glider pilot. On the north we have prairies. But they're boring. Prairies can't be interesting ;) Population of Almaty is approximately 2 millions. More than in capital of Kazakhstan - Astana. By the way the name of Astana is translated from Kazakh as "Capital". I think it's a fanny fact. Almaty can be translated as Apple-City. There always were a lot of apple trees. In the soviet time soviet engineers invent the great sort of apple - Apport apples. It was the very big (really large) and delicious fruits. But after decoupling USSR we have lost it :( Almaty is a city with bad ecology. Our city lacks of wind 'cause we're surrounded by high mountines from the 3 of 4 sides. And we have several skyscrapers which empede to clearing air. Another bad trait is a BIG problem with traffic and with drivers culture. Our drivers should have more respect to themselves. A principal outcome of it is that Almaty is the most dangerous city in Kazakhstan. You can be easy injured by a hurried driver. Our nearest neighbours are Kyrgistan, China and Uzbekistan.