Theater
The Miners Palace of Culture is a major landmark in Karagandy.
Sports
FC Shakhter Karagandy is a football club based in Shakhtyor Stadium. The city sent a bandy team to the Spartakiade 2009. The popularity of winter sports is growing each year and multi-sports winter games are organized for the Karagandy Province.
Other
*Karaganda Zoo
*Karaganda State University
Religion
The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Karaganda.
Other
Karaganda was often used as the punch line in a popular joke in the former Soviet Union. Karaganda is fairly isolated in a vast area of uninhabited steppe, and is thought by many to be "the middle of nowhere"
