Fort Shevchenko

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This article is about the town of Fort Shevchenko. For the nearby city of Aqtau, formerly Shevchenko, see Aqtau.

Fort Shevchenko (Russian: ) is a town in Mangghystau Oblys, Kazakhstan on the Caspian Sea. Until 1857 it was known as Novopetrovskoye (Новопетровское) and from 1857-1939 as Fort Alexandrovsky (Форт-Александровский). It was named for Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko as was the nearby city of Aqtau until 1992.

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