During his business trip to the Almaty region, Nursultan Nazarbayev played host to the Mayor of Almaty, Caspionet reported. Akhmetzhan Yessimov informed the President about the development rate in the most densely populated and the largest city in Kazakhstan.
Over the past decade alone, the GDP in Almaty grew 8 times while the city's assessments to the Republic's budget increased from 127 to 757 billion tenge during this period. Also in his Almaty residence, Nursultan Nazarbayev received the famous public figure, the Second World War veteran, Sultan Dzhiyenbayev. The President congratulated the war veteran on his 90th birthday.