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Karaganda City Info
Karaganda is the capital of Qaraghandy Province in Kazakhstan.The original site of Karaganda is now labeled on city maps as the "Old Town," but almost nothing remains on that site. In exploiting the rich coal deposits next door, the Soviets undermined the entire city, and the town had to be abandoned completely and moved several miles to the south. Only three or four buildings remain in the ghostly Old Town, of which one is the old (and once ornate) theatre, and another an old fire station mentioned in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago.