Kostanay

Kostanay is a city of 247,000 people (2019) on the Tobol River in Northern Kazakhstan.

Understand

The city is located in the steppe zone in the north of the Turgay plateau, in the south-eastern part of the West Siberian Plain, on the Tobol River, 571 km north-west of Nur-Sultan city (704 km along the highway). The nearest million-plus city is Russian Chelyabinsk, located 260 km (along the highway over 300 km) to the north-west of Kostanay.

Get in

By plane

Kostanay Airport (KSN) is 2 km (1.2 mi) south-west of Kostanay. Regular flights from Almaty, Nur-Sultan, Shymkent, Turkestan.

By train

connected to Almaty, Arkalyk, Atyrau, Karagandy, Nur-Sultan.

Get around

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Map of Kostanay

Taxi up to 1000 tenge
Bus 80 tenge

See

Do

Central Park, Pobedy Park, Tobol Embankment
Football: FC Tobol play soccer in the Premier League, Kazakhstan's top tier. Their home ground is Central Stadium (capacity 9500) east side of Victory Park.

Buy

Kostanay Plaza, Mart

Eat

McDonalds, KFC, Vanil, Mangal

Drink

Sleep

Celinnaya Hotel prices start from 6000 tenge.

Connect

As of September 2024, Kostanay has 4G from Beeline and Kcell, and 5G from Tele2. The signal is patchy on the approach highways.

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