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BLAGOVYESHCHENSK

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 32 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLAGOVYESHCHENSK  , a

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town of East
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Siberia, chief town of the Amur government, on the
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left
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bank of the Amur, near its confluence with the Zeya in 50° 15' N.
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lat. and 127° 38' E. long., 610 m. by
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river above Khabarovsk . Founded in 1856, the town had, in 1900, 37,368 inhabitants, and is the seat of the bishop of Amur and
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Kamchatka . There are steam
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flour-mills and iron-
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works . It is a centre for tea exported to Russia, cattle brought from TransbaikaIia and
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Mongolia for the Amur, and for grain .

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