In the spring of 2009 we flew half way around the world to adopt a little girl in the city of Petropavlovsk in northern Kazakhstan. This blog chronicles our experiences in bringing her home. We wrote it both to keep those at home up to date on our progress and also to provide help and perspective to those who might follow behind us on the same adventure. Hopefully it accomplishes both goals.
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Wikipedia on Petropavlovsk
Posted on April 5th, 2009 No commentsThe Petropavlovsk page on Wikpedia is pretty weak but there is in fact one. It doesn’t say much other than:
Petropavl (Kazakh: Петропавл), also known as Petropavlovsk (from Russian: Петропавловск, not to be confused with Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky) is a city by Ishim River in North Kazakhstan Province of Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia, about 350km west of Omsk along the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is capital of the North Kazakhstan Province. Its population is 193,300.
It was founded in 1752 as a Russian fort extending Russian settlement and influence into the nomadic Kazakh territories to the south. It was granted the status of city in 1807. Petropavl was an important trading center for silk and carpets until the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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