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PETROPAVLOVSK

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 335 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PETROPAVLOVSK is also the name of a

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RUSSIAN

Russian seaport in

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KAMCHATKA

Kamchatka, on the eastern

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SHORE

shore cif the

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BAY

Bay of Avacha, in 53° N. and 1580 44' E . Its

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HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour, one of the best on the Pacific, is little used, and the

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TOWN

town consists merely of a few huts with some 400 inhabitants . Its

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NAVAL

naval institutions were transferred to

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NIKOLAYEVSK

Nikolayevsk after the attack of the Anglo

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FLEET

fleet in 1854 .

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