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Borovoe

Country - Kazakhstan

Region - Akmola region

Rural area - Burabay

Village administration

Head /lord - Temerbekov Chingiskhan Nazambekovich

History and geography

Based - 1852

Prior names - Borovoe

Village from - 1939

Height of centre - 480 m

Time zone - UTC +6

Population

5800 people (2012)

Burabay (kaz. Burabay, until 24 August 2005 the resort village of Borovoye) — climate-semicolony resort since 1910 in the Akmola region of Kazakhstan. It is included in Borovskoy village administration. It was built near the lake of the same name. Sanatoria, mud baths, etc. Season — all year-around. The main indication for treatment in the health resorts of Burabay is the presence of tuberculosis (including in open form) and respiratory diseases.

Geography
The village is located 95 km South-East of Kokshetau, 20 km North of the railway station "Borovoe Resort" (in Shchuchinsk).

Located on Kokchetav hill, at an altitude of about 480 m, in a pine forest, on the isthmus separating the lake Burabay and Big Chebachye.

Burabay is called "the pearl of Kazakhstan" and "Kazakhstan Switzerland". In the national Park Burabay there are 14 major lakes, including Burabay, Kazakhstan, Katarkol, as well as many small lakes. The visiting card of Borovoye is called mount Kokshetau (Sinyukha) height of 1427 metres.

Burabai fauna includes about 300 species of vertebrates, flora — about 800 species of forest, meadow, saline plants.

History
Cossacks with hunting settled fertile Borovsk places: in 1849 they founded the village of Koturkul, the following year — a small settlement Shchuchye (now the city of Shchuchinsk). After two decades in 1870, the adventurous Cossack Zubov looked after for the case of turbulent channel between lakes Borovoe and Big chebache and put the first water mill in the tract. Behind the miller to the river Gromotukha stretched other settlers, cut down their huts from ancient pines. So there was a village Borovskaya.

Economics
In November 2009, the first 6-lane Astana — Shchuchinsk highway in Kazakhstan was put into operation.

Mass media

 * Kazakhstan-Kokshetau TV Channel Information portal e-burabay.kz

In 1998 was released the souvenir sheet, which includes stamps, 240-241,dedicated to lake Borovoye (Burabay).

Literature

 * Borovoe (Akmola region) as a medical and climatic point of the Steppe region / G. E. Katanaev. — Omsk: Electro-typography Akmola Regional Board, 1915. — 23 p.; 17 cm. Slovtsov I. J. Travel notes typed during the trip in the Kokshetau district of the Akmola region in 1878 // Note SCOURGE. — Omsk, 1881. — kN. 3. — S. 1-152. Zhandaev M. J. Borovoye Resort: an essay / Society "Knowledge" of the Kazakh SSR. — Alma-ATA: About "Knowledge" of the Kazakh SSR, 1981. — 32 p.