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(Encyclopedia)Ust-Sysolsk: see Syktyvkar, Russia. ...Ust Urt
(Encyclopedia)Ust Urt: see Ustyurt, Russia.Vaigach
(Encyclopedia)Vaigach: see Vaygach, island, Russia. ...Verkhneudinsk
(Encyclopedia)Verkhneudinsk: see Ulan-Ude, Russia. ...Preussisch Eylau
(Encyclopedia)Preussisch Eylau: see Bagrationovsk, Russia. ...Petrograd
(Encyclopedia)Petrograd: see Saint Petersburg, Russia. ...Taimyra
(Encyclopedia)Taimyra: see Taymyra, river, Russia. ...Amur
(Encyclopedia)Amur ämo͝orˈ [key], Chin. Heilongjiang, river, c.1,800 mi (2,900 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Shilka and Argun rivers, NE Asia, at the Russian-Chinese border; the Amur-Shilka-Onon syst...Holst, Hermann Eduard von
(Encyclopedia)Holst, Hermann Eduard von fən hôlst [key], 1841–1904, American historian, b. Livonia (then part of Russia), of German parents. He was barred from Russia because of a pamphlet attacking the czarist...Irtysh
(Encyclopedia)Irtysh ĭrtĭshˈ [key], river, c.2,650 mi (4,260 km) long, W Siberian Russia and Kazakhstan. It is the chief tributary of the Ob and one of the two major rivers of W Siberia. As the Ertix, it rises i...Browse by Subject
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