Alma Atta was the Capital of __________upto 1997?

A. Tajikistan
B. Turkmenistan
C. Kazakhstan 
D. None of these

It served as capital of the Soviet and later independent Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1997. In 1997, the government relocated the capital to Astana (known as “Nur-Sultan” as of 23 March 2019) it was renamed to Nur-Sultan after the departing Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.