Dzhezkazgan ( Kazak: Zhezqazghan), is a city in central Kazakstan, on a reservoir of the Kara-Kengir River . The city was created in 1938 in connection with the exploitation of the rich local copper deposits. In 1973 a large mining and metallurgical complex was constructed to the southeast to smelt the copper that until then had been sent elsewhere for processing. The city has a rail link with Karaganda. Its urban area includes the neighbouring mining town of Satpayev . Pop. (1995 est.) 108,700.
