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Did you know?

The name “Almaty” means “rich with apple”; the older Soviet-era Russian version of its name, Alma-Ata, originates from a mistake (literally means “Grandfather-apple”). In the surrounding region, there is a great genetic diversity among the wild apples; the region is in fact in the ancestral home of the apple...
( kazakhstanhistory.com/almaty/)

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Tucson, Arizona
- Almaty, Kazakhstan

Almaty (Kazakh: Алматы; formerly known as Alma-Ata (Russian: Алма-Ата), also Verniy (Верный)) is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of 1,348,500 (as of 1 September 2008), which represents 9% of the population of the country.

It was the capital of Kazakhstan (and its predecessor, the Kazakh SSR) from 1929 to 1998. Despite losing its status as the capital, Almaty remains the major commercial center of Kazakhstan. Reed more on Wikipedia.com

Almaty Apple Monument
Almaty  - Apple monument
(aboutkazakhstan.com/Almaty_city.shtml
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