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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 247 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHITA  , a

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town of
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east
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Siberia,
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capital of
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Transbaikalia, on the Siberian railway, 500 m . E. of
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Irkutsk, on the Chita
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river,
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half a mile above its confluence with the Ingoda . Pop . (1883) 12,600; (1897) 11,480 . The Imperial
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Russian .
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Geographical Society has a museum here . Several of the
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palace revolutionaries, known as Decembrists, were banished to this
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place from St
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Petersburg in consequence of the
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conspiracy of
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December 1825 . The inhabitants support themselves by
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agriculture and by
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trade in furs,
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cattle, hides and
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tallow bought from the
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Buriats, and in manufactured wares imported from
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Russia and
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west Siberia .

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