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of the Kazakh SSR, the term "city of republican significance" was not formally employed. Instead, the Soviet system distinguished between regional centers and cities of republican subordination, the latter being directly subordinate to the Republican Council of Ministers rather than to oblast authorities. Alma-Ata (now Almaty), which became the capital of the Kazakh ASSR in 1929 and of the Kazakh SSR

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