Meanings
- A city, the administrative centre of the Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan.
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Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 p.m. ET in a Soyuz spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, after a seven-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.
2025 April 19, Ashley Strickland, “An astronaut’s awe-inspiring views from life in space”, in CNN, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2025
Origin
- KazakhЖезқазған
- RussianЖезказга́н
- EnglishZhezkazgan
From Russian Жезказга́н (Žezkazgán), from Kazakh Жезқазған (Jezqazğan).
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Zhezkazgan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zhezkazgan
“Zhezkazgan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zhezkazgan. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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