[chuh-rem-kuh-voh; Russ. chyi-ryim-khaw-vuh] 
| a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, near Lake Baikal. 110,000. |
Cheremkhovo
city, Irkutsk oblast (province), far eastern Russia, on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Founded in 1772 as a station on the Great Siberian Post Road, the town developed as a chief mining centre of the Cheremkhovo bituminous coalfield, but in the 1960s it began a steady decline because of limited reserves and the availability of coal nearby at Tulun. Other industries include machine building and mica processing. Pop. (2000 est.) 69,100
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