BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Embassy of Kazakhstan

DC -- Embassy of Kazakhstan:

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Description of Pictures: Part of Passport DC 2014:
The embassy will be glad to welcome guests to showcase its rich cultural heritage and tourism opportunities of Kazakhstan, including traditionally dressed ladies for photos opportunities and traditional instruments. We are also selling scarves.
Included here at Kairat Umarov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the U.S., and his wife.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. EMBKAZ_140503_042.JPG: Kazakhstan: More Going On Than You Know: 1400 to 0: Nuclear Weapons: With the fall of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan inheireted [sic] a stockpile of 1400 nuclear weapons. Within 4 years President Nazarbayer reduced that number to 0. $146 Billion: Foreign Direct Investment: 80% of Foreign Direct Investment in Central Asia is into Kazakhstan. 99.5%: Literacy Rate: Just about every Kazakh older than 15 can read and write. A free, high-quality education is available to all Kazakhs. 140 x 40: Diverse Society: Kazakhstan has a diverse cultural heritage. Kazakhstan is home to more than 140 ethnic groups and 40 religious denominations. 3,000: US Angus Beef: Kazakhstan imported more than 3,000 heads of American Black Angus & Hereford cattle from North Dakota last year. The import of cattle, including from the US, is expected to exceed 75,000 by 2015. $12,174: A Growing Middle Class: Kazakhs are earning more and spending more each year. More and more Kazakhs are buying homes and automobiles. Per capital GDP has reached about $12,000 -- up from about $700 in 1994. The Kazakh middle class is growing. 26.9: Million Tonnes: Feeding the World: Kazakhstan harvested 26.9 Million Tonnes of grain in 2011. The 5th largest exporter globally. 9th: Got Land? Kazakhstan is the 9th largest country by land area in the world and the largest land locked country. 850,000: Adventure Tourism: On average, 850,000 foreign visitors arrive in Kazakhstan every year. American Companies: 200 / 30: The US Chamber of Commerce in Kazakhstan represents 200 companies spread across 30 industries including: GE, Chevron, Xerox, and FedEx. Air Astana placed a $1.3 Billion order this year with Boeing for new aircraft, contributing to American jobs. Democracy on the March: 89.9% & 75.1%: 89.9% of registered Kazakhs voted in the 2011 Presidential election, and 75.1% turned out for the 2012 Parliamentary elections.
2. EMBKAZ_140503_081.JPG: Kazakhstan for a Nuclear Weapons-Free WOrld: Kazakhstan had a long record of working to make the world a safer place, free of nuclear weapons. In 1991, the newly independent Kazakhstan inherited from the Soviet Union the fourth largest nuclear weapon arsenal in the world. President Nazarbayev renounced nuclear weapons and in fewer than four years, Kazakhstan was nuclear weapons-free. Kazakhstan is an example of a country gaining security by giving up nuclear weapons. 1989: Kazakhstan was home to one of the Soviet Union's first anti-nuclear movements, Nevada Semipalatinsk. In 1989, this movement actively campaigned for the closing of the Semipalatinsk test site, one of the most-used nuclear testing sites in the world. 1992: Kazakhstan signed the Gabon Protocol to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and declared itself a non-nuclear weapons state. 1993: Kazakhstan ratified the Nonproliferation Treaty and joined the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program. 1994: Under the Budapest Memorandum, Kazakhstan obtained security assurances from nuclear powers Russia, US, UK, and later from France and China. 1995: Keeping with their promise, Kazakhstan becomes rid of all nuclear weapons inherited from the Soviet Union. 2000: The testing infrastructure in Semipalatinsk is completely destroyed. ...
3. EMBKAZ_140503_082.JPG: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site: 1947-1991 Test Site Area: 18,500 sq km or 7,142.88 sq miles Foundation date: August 21, 1947 On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union conducted the explosion of its first atomic bomb at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Eastern Kazahkstan. The blast was equal to 22,000 tons of TNT. During the next forty years, 456 nuclear and thermonuclear explosions were conducted at the test site with a cumulative power output equal to 2,500 bombs dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Air Tests -- 86 Surface Tests -- 30 Underground Tets -- 340 The zone of environmental contamination around the former Semipalatinsk test site spread over more than 300,000 square kilometers, comparable to the territories of Germany or Italy and equal to more than 10 percent of Kazahkstan's territory. The estimated 30,000 soldiers, who served on the site during the years of testing, were not aware of the dangerous levels of radiation. Constrained with a confidentiality agreement, they could not tell anyone about exposure and where they had served. The local population suffered as well. In 1957, a secret medical institution called Brucellosis Dispensary Number 4 was established in Semipalatinsk, where thirty-five scientists studied, but did not treat, 20,000 people living in heavily contaminated settlements. Other hospitals in the country misdiagnosed victims of the radioactive exposure, since the Soviet system forbade doctors to mention radiation in their official diagnosis. The nuclear testing damaged the lives of 1.4 million people in Kazahkstan. Diseases found in the third generation at unusually high rates include encephalitis, schizophrenia, different kinds of cancer, leukemia, and heart disease. The birth defects, such as cleft pallets, "rabbit nose," scarcity of bones in the arms and legs, and skin problems are common. On August 29, 1991, Nursultan Nazarbaev, then the President of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, signed a Decree on Shutting Down the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. The test site in now used for scientific studies. The international community, including governmental agencies, international and non-governmental organizations, assists in implementing the Semipalatinsk Relief and Rehabilitation Program.
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5. EMBKAZ_140503_147.JPG: Kairat Umarov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the U.S., and his wife.
Wikipedia Description: Embassy of Kazakhstan in Washington, D.C.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Embassy of Kazakhstan in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United States. It is located at 1401 16th Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. in the Dupont Circle neighborhood.

The embassy house is a spacious, brick, Richardsonian-style house, featuring a massive hip roof, prominent chimneys and a distinctive round corner tower built in 1888. The house was designed and built by Charles and Samuel Edmonston for Susan Shields, the widow of a wealthy newspaper publisher. The house used to be the home of American Vice President James S. Sherman, the 27th Vice President of the United States. Outside the house stands a smaller version of the Golden Warrior Monument which celebrates Kazakhstan's independence.

The ambassador is Erzhan Kazykhanov. Kairat Umarov assumed the post of ambassador in 2017.
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