About Aktobe city

Population of the oblast: 834 813 thousand people 
Currency: Tenge (KZT)
Territory of the oblast: 300 629 sq.km. 
Climate: sharp - continental 
Time zone: GMT+05:00 
Postal code: 030000 
Area code: 8 7132 
Official website:http://aktobe.gov.kz/ru/


Aktobe city is located in the Western Kazakhstan, an administrative center of the Aktyubinsk area.
Aktobe city takes the fifth place among the cities of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the number of inhabitants and is the largest city of the Western Kazakhstan. 

The regional center - the city of Aktobe is a largest industrial, educational, scientific and cultural center of the western Kazakhstan, the beautiful modern, business city, with the developed of transport infrastructure, developed by the banking sector, new modern office and residential buildings, the modern airport which is in compliance with the international standards.
Industrial plants of ferroalloys, chromic connections, agricultural mechanical engineering, the X-ray equipment, etc. are operated in Aktobe city.
And the chemical, light and food industry are developed in this city.
It is called the western gate of our state. 

Priority kinds of activity of area: 
- Oil and gas refining
- Oil and gas mechanical engineering; oil and gas service
- Chemical industry
- Mining and metallurgical complex
- Warehouses, transport service, electric power


The Largest industrial enterprises of the oblast:
- Aktyubinsk Chromium Compounds Plant - only producer of chromic compound in Kazakhstan, general design capacity of 103,27 thousand tons. Product range: anhydride chromic technical, chrome an oxide technical metallurgical, sodium bichromate technical, chrome sulfate (main), potassium bichromate technical, a chrome oxide technical pigmentary on the basis of the chromite ores extracted in the Aktyubinsk oblast.
- “Aktyubinsk Ferroalloy Plant”, “TNK-Kazchrom” (Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation). 
- “Aktyubinsk Copper Company” LLP.
- Kazakhstan-Chinese Drilling Company “Great Wall”.
- “Aircraft Repair Plant 406-GA”.
- “Aktyubrentgen” (AktyubX-ray).
- “Nitrochim group” NPO.
- “Donskoy GOK”, “Kazkhrom” TNK.
- “Aktyubinsk Oil Equipment Plant” JSC.
- “AktobeMunay” MashComplex” LLP.
- “KazTransGazAymak” LLP.
- “KazTransOil”.
- “Altius Petroleum International”.
- “MunayGaz Kurylys” LLP.
- “Vostok Neft and Service maintenance and etc.