Pavlodar, a city in Kazakhstan, the administrative center of the Pavlodar region. Is 450 km from Astana. Center of regional development of high technologies. The population was 330.8 people.
Founded in 1720 as Koryakovsky outpost. The name given on the Radom Korâkovskomu Lake. In 1838, converted to page Korâkovskuû (Koryak). In 1861 he received the status of a town and the name Pavlodar, in honor of the newborn child of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich.