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ALEXANDROVSK

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 576 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDROVSK  . (1) A

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town of N . Russia, in the government of Archangel, on the harbour of Catherine (Ekaterininsk), on the Murman coast, 5 m. from the mouth of
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Kola
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Bay . It was opened in 1.899 and is a
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naval station, being
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free from ice all the
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year round . It is also, called
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Port Catherine . Pop . (1901) 300 . (2) A town of S . Russia, 83 m . S. of
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Ekaterinoslav, on the railway to the Crimea, near the
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left
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bank of the
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Dnieper, below its rapids . Pop . (1897) 16,393 .

Opposite it is the

island of Khortitsa, upon which was the sicl (or syech) or camp of theZaporozhianCossacks . All its neighbourhood is strewn with kurgans (tumuli) .

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