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AKHTYRKA

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AKHTYRKA  , a

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town of
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Russia, in the
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government of
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Kharkov, near the Vorskla
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river, connected by a
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branch (Ii m.) with the railway from
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Kiev to Kharkov . It has a beautiful
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cathedral, built after a
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plan by Rastrelli in 1753, to which pilgrims resort to venerate an ikon of the Virgin . There are manufactures of
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light woollen stuffs • and a
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trade in
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corn,
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cattle and the produce of domestic
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industries . The environs are fertile, the orchards producing excellent
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fruit . A
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fair is held on the 9th of May . The
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place was founded by the Poles in 1642 . Pop . (1867) 17,411; (1900) 25,965 .

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