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KOLYVAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 892 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KOLYVAR  . (I) A

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town of West
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Siberia, in the government of
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Tomsk, on the Chaus
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river, 5 M. from the Ob and 120 M . S.S.W. of the city of Tomsk . It is a wealthy town, the merchants carrying on a considerable export trade in cattle, hides, tallow, corn and fish . It was founded in 1713 under the name of Chausky
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Ostrog, and has grown rapidly . Pop . (1897), 11,703 . (2) KOLYVANSKIY ZAVOD, another town of the same government, in the
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district of Biysk, Altai region, on the Byelaya river, 192 M . S.E. of
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Barnaul; altitude, 1290 ft . It is renowned for its stone-cutting factory, where marble,
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jasper, various porphyries and breccias are worked into vases, columns, &c . Pop., 5000 .

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