Weekly magazine “Arguments and Facts” No. 03. Either a bus, or a vision. When will the modernization of public transport reach cities and towns? 19/01/2022
How do you spell the name of the former capital of Kazakhstan correctly – Alma-Ata or Almaty? And how to persuade him?
Russian Russian speakers have nothing to worry about in such renaming “Alma-Ata” Almaty, Shymkent, Shymkent, etc., “Andrei Shcherbakov, scientific director of the Center for Media Communications Research at the Pushkin Institute of the Russian Language, told the AIF. The question of declination is solved taking into account the rules of the Russian language. Let’s say Alma-Ata is feminine, so in Alma-Ata, inAlma-Ata, etc. The new name, on the contrary, does not incline: I went to Almaty, grew up in Almaty, etc. In newspaper articles, both of these names can be used as equivalent, but in official documents, out of respect, you need to use the option that is adopted in Kazakhstan itself. The same applies to other former republics of the USSR: Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Belarus, Belarus, etc.