 About 2,000 Jewish Kazakhs are Bukharian and Juhuro Mountain Jews.There are synagogues and large Jewish communities in Almaty where there are 1,000 Jews in Nur-Sultan (Astana) and Pavlodar.There are smaller communities in Karaganda, Chimkent, Semey, Kokchetav, Dzhambul, Uralsk, Aktyubinsk, and Petropavlovsk.