Word: karaganda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Huge coal deposits at Karaganda in Kazak, only recently prospected, are now yielding 5,500,000 tons a year, and the once Godforsaken hamlet of Karaganda has become a modern city. So has Kounrad, where the mining of extensive copper deposits around Lake Balkhash has begun. Sulfur plants have sprung up in the hills of Darvaz in Turkestan...