Petropavl (Петропавл/Petropavl/پەترۇپاۆل), also known as Petropavlovsk (Петропавловск, Petropavlovsk, not to be confused with Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky), is a city on the Ishim River in northern Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia, about 261 km west of Omsk along the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is the capital of...