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A⋅ba⋅kan

  [ah-buh-kahn; Russ. uh-buh-kahn]
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a city in and the capital of the Khakass Autonomous Region in the Russian Federation in Asia, on the Yenisei River. 128,000.
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A·ba·kan   (ä'bə-kän')   
A city of south-central Russia east-southeast of Novosibirsk. It is a commercial center on the Yenisey River and the Siberian Railroad. Population: 165,000.
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Abakan

city and administrative centre of the republic of Khakassia, south-central Russia. The city lies on the left bank of the Abakan River near its confluence with the Yenisey River. The starting point of a southern Siberian railway line (opened in 1960), Abakan is connected with Novokuznetsk and thence to Barnaul, Akmolinsk, and Magnitogorsk. The city has metalworking, footwear, and food-processing industries, and coal and iron ore are mined in the vicinity. Pop. (2006 est.) 163,980.

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