Ust-Kamenogorsk or Oskemen and Ust-Kamennaya (Russian: -, until 1868), is the capital of the East Kazakhstan Province. It is served by the Ust-Kamenogorsk Airport. Founded in 1720 at the confluence of the Irtysh and Ulba rivers as a fort and trading post named Ust-Kamennaya. The city was established in 1720 according to the order of the Russian Emperor Peter the Great, who sent a military expedition headed by major Ivan Vasilievich Likharev in the search of Yarkenda gold.
Likharevs expedition directed up the Irtysh river to Zaysan Lake. There, at the confluence of the Ulba and the Irtysh rivers the new fortress was laid the Ust-Kamennaya Fortress.The Ust-Kamennaya Fortress appeared on the map of the Russian Empire, the very southern end of the Irtysh line. In 1868 the city became the capital of the Semipalatinsk Oblast. It was the site of Georgy Malenkov’s 30-year internal exile, during which he managed a local hydroelectric plant. Under the name of the Ust-Kamenogorsk Lock, the highest lock in the World lies at Ablaketka where it allows river traffic to pass around a hydroelectric dam on the Irtysh river. It has a drop of more than 40m.

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