Beineu

urban-type settlement, administrative center of Beineu Raion, Mangyshlak Oblast, Kazakh SSR. Railroad station on the Makat-Uzen’ line. Population, 7,100 (1969). A railroad (408 km long) was constructed (1970) from Beineu to Kungrad (Kara-Kalpak ASSR). The main gas line connecting Middle Asia with Central Russia passes near the settlement.