The territory of Pavlodarskaya oblast is about 116 thousand square kilometers. About a million people live there. The administrative center is Pavlodar City. Pavlodar City is a railway junction. The City was founded in 1720. The population of the city is about 350 thousand people. The city is a very important industry center, there is refinery, aluminum plant, tractor, foundry and forge, shipbuilding and ship repairing plants, food and light industry. There is Irtysh-Karaganda canal near Pavlodar. There are 2 Universities, drama theatre, Regional and Art Museums. Today Pavlodar is a big industrial center of Kazakhstan. The main branches of its Economy are petrochemical industry, mechanical engineering and energetic. It impossible to imagine Pavlodar without the Pavlodar port. Cargo transportations and steam navigation still have great importance for the development of the city.