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KALACH

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 637 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KALACH  , also known as DONSKAYA, a

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village of S.E . Russia, in the territory of the Don Cossacks, and a
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river
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port onthe Don, 31 M . N.E. of Nizhne-Chirskaya, in 430 30' E. and 48° 43' N . Its permanent population, only about 1200, increases greatly in summer . It is the
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terminus of the railway (45 m.; which connects the Don with
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Tsaritsyn on the Volga, and all the goods (especially fish, petroleum, cereals and
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timber) brought from the
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Caspian Sea up the Volga and destined for
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middle Russia, or for export through the Sea of Azov, are unloaded at Tsaritsyn and sent over to Kalach on the Don .

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