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Orenburg
[ awr-uhn-burg, ohr‑ ]
Orenburg
/ arɪnˈburk; ˈɒrənˌbɜːɡ /
noun
- a city in W Russia, on the Ural River. Pop: 550 000 (2005 est) Former name (1938–57)Chkalov
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It was a sleepless night in Chechnya for two lawyers from the Russian town of Orenburg, Sergei Babinets and Dmitriy Dimitriyev.
The fur of these animals is very valuable, and the Kirghiz hunters carry thousands every year to the great market of Orenburg.
So the adventurous guardsman started by railway for Orenburg, the great centre and depôt of Central Asiatic traffic.
There was nothing to be done, therefore, but to complete the necessary preparations for his journey to Orenburg.
Their third and last insurrection was in 1735, at the time of the foundation of Orenburg, and it lasted for six years.
Orenburg (73,000), on the Ural, is the terminal depot of the caravan trade of Asiatic Russia.
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